IAN MORTIMER

Full Bibliography

Last updated 10 November 2008

1. The Greatest Traitor: the Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England 1327-1330 (Jonathan Cape (hardback), 2003; Pimlico (paperback), 2004; Thomas Dunne Books (USA, 2006))
2. The Perfect King: the Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation (Jonathan Cape (hardback), 2006; Pimlico (paperback), 2007; Vintage (paperback), 2008)
3. The Fears of Henry IV: the Life of England's Self-Made King (Jonathan Cape (hardback), 2007; Vintage (paperback), 2008))

• The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: a Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth century (The Bodley Head, 2 October 2008)

• The Dying and the Doctors: the Medical Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England (Royal Historical Society: Studies in History, forthcoming 2009)
• [with Jessica Gardner] Modern Literary Manuscripts in the Library of the University of Exeter (University of Exeter Library, Exeter, 2003)
• Berkshire Probate Accounts 1583-1712 (Berkshire Record Society, Reading, 1999)
• Record Repositories in Great Britain (PRO Publications, 10th ed., 1997, and 11th ed., 1999)
• Berkshire Glebe Terriers 1634 (Berkshire Record Society, Reading, 1995)

1. Theoretical and Critical
   • ‘What isn't history? The nature and enjoyment of history in the twenty-first century’, History vol. 93 (October 2008), pp. 454-74.
   • 'Beyond the facts – How true originality in history has fallen foul of postmodernism, research targets and commercial pressure', The TLS (26 September 2008), pp. 16-17.
   • ‘Discriminating between readers: The case for a policy of flexibility’, Journal of the Society of Archivists, 23 (2002), pp. 59-67.
   • ‘Archon and the Indexes to the National Register of Archives: Past, Present and Future’, Program, 33 (1999), pp. 225-33.
2. Medieval
   • ‘Henry IV's date of birth and the royal Maundy’, Historical Research, 80 (2007), pp. 567-76.
   • ‘Richard II and the Succession to the Crown’, History, 91 (2006), pp. 320-336.
   • ‘Sermons of Sodomy: a Reconsideration of Edward II's Sodomitical Reputation’, in Gwilym Dodd and Anthony Musson (eds) The Reign of Edward II: New Perspectives (Boydell, 2006), pp. 48-60.
   • ‘The Death of Edward II in Berkeley Castle’, The English Historical Review, 120 (2005), pp. 1175-1214.
3. Early Modern
   • ‘The Rural Medical Marketplace in Southern England, c.1570-1720’, in Mark S. R. Jenner and Patrick Wallis (eds), Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c. 1450-1850 (Palgrave, 2007), pp. 69-87
   • ‘A Directory of Medical Personnel Qualified and Practising in the Diocese of Canterbury, circa 1560-1730’, Archaeologia Cantiana, 126 (2006), pp. 135-169. N.B. see also the fuller electronic version on the Kent Archaeology Society's website.
   • ‘Why were probate accounts made? Methodological issues concerning the historical use of administrators' and executors' accounts’, Archives 31 (2006), pp. 2-17.
   • ‘The Triumph of the Doctors: Medical Assistance to the Dying, c1570-1720’ (winning entry for the Alexander Prize, 2004), Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 15 (2005), pp. 97-116.
   • ‘Index of Medical Licentiates, Applicants, Referees and Examiners in the Diocese of Exeter, 1568-1783’, Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 136 (2004), pp. 99-134.
   • ‘Machyn , Henry (1496/1498-1563)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
   • ‘Baskerville, Hannibal (1597-1668)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
   • ‘Blount, Thomas (1618-1679)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
   • ‘Talbot, Thomas (c.1535-1595x9)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
   • ‘Diocesan licensing and medical practitioners in South-West England, 1660-1780’, Medical History, 48 (2004), pp. 49-68.
   • ‘Tudor chronicler or sixteenth-century diarist? Henry Machyn and the nature of his manuscript’ Sixteenth Century Journal, 33 (2002), pp. 981-998.
   • ‘The Agricultural Landscape in 1634’, in Joan Dils (ed.), An Historical Atlas of Berkshire (Berkshire Record Society, 1998), pp. 48-9.
4. Modern
   • 'The Henry Williamson Archive at Exeter University', The Journal of the Henry Williamson Society, 41 (2005), pp. 64-71
   • [with Joseph Melling] 'British Government Policies for the Regulation of Anthrax Infection and the Wool Textiles Industries 1880-1939', Textile History, 31 (2000), pp. 222-236.

• 'The Historian as Time Traveller', History Today (October 2008), pp. 70-1.
• 'Groats in your Purse', BBC History (October 2008), pp. 56-9.
• 'York or Lancaster: who was the rightful heir to the throne in 1460?', Richard III Society Bulletin (Autumn 2008), pp. 20-24.
• 'Poitiers: High Point of the Hundred Years War', History Today, 56, 9 (September 2006), pp. 41-47.
• 'The Old Icon', The Guardian (9 March 2006). [Note: this article was published under the title 'Englishness is more about Crécy than cups of tea', which was an editorial choice.]
• ‘The Father of the English Nation’, BBC History, 7, 2 (February 2006), pp. 40-45.
• ‘Pokerman: the death of Edward II’, Living History, 14 (May 2004), pp. 72-75.
• ‘Revisionism Revisited’, History Today, 54 (March 2004), pp. 38-39.
• 'The King is Not Dead' (letter), History Today, 53 (June 2003), p.
• ‘A red-hot poker? It was just a red herring’, Times Higher Education Supplement (11 April 2003), p. 18.
• ‘The Worst Traitor in England’, The Times (29 March 2003), Weekend section, p. 6.

• ‘Medical Assistance to the Dying in Provincial Southern England, c.1570-1720’ (PhD thesis, 2 vols, University of Exeter, 2004)
• Guide to the Manors of Devon (freely available online publication, Genuki, 2005)

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