IAN MORTIMER

Full Bibliography

Last updated 4 January 2010

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))
4. 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory (The Bodley Head (hardback), 2009))

• 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, 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
   • ‘Forty Years Hence: the Repositioning of History’, Sixteenth Century Journal, xl, 1 (2009), pp. 187-190.
   • ‘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.

• 'What Hundred Years War?', History Today (October 2009), pp. 27-33.
• 'Henry V: the Cruel King', BBC History (October 2009), pp. 24-9.
• 'The Heir Male' (letter), Ricardian Bulletin (September 2009), p. 48.
• '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.
• 'Life and Death in Berkshire c. 1590-1720', Berkshire Family Historian, 21, 4 (June 1998), pp. 34-44.
• 'The Glebe Terriers of Berkshire 1634', Berkshire Family Historian, 18, 3 (March 1995), pp. 94-99.

• 'Chaucer's London by A. R. Myers', BBC History, 11, 1 (January 2010), p. 75.
• 'The Historical Novel: The New Critical Idiom volume 10, by Jerome de Groot', History Today, 60, 1 (January 2010), 62.
• 'The Celtic Revolution by Simon Young', The Guardian (19 December 2009).
• 'Summer of Blood by Dan Jones', History Today, 59, 12 (December 2009), p. 58.
• ‘Richard II: Manhood, Youth and Politics, 1377-99 by Christopher Fletcher', History, The Journal of the Historical Association (forthcoming).
• ‘The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris) translated by Gina Greco and Christine Rose’, BBC History, 10, 7 (July 2009), p. 71,
• ‘The Reign of Henry IV: Rebellion and Survival 1403-13 edited by Gwilym Dodd and Douglas Biggs’, History, The Journal of the Historical Association, 94, 3 (2009), pp. 389-91.
• 'The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham', The Guardian (24 January 2009).
• 'The Man who Believed he was King of France by Tomasso di Carpegna Falconieri', The Daily Telegraph (25 October 2008).
• 'Warwick the Kingmaker by A. J. Pollard', BBC History, 8 (2007), p. 59
• ‘The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, edited by Chris Given-Wilson’, History, The Journal of the Historical Association, 92 (2007), pp. 110-11.
• ‘The History of the Merchant Taylors Company by Matthew Davies and Ann Saunders’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 37 (2006), pp. 849-51.
• ‘The Bede Roll of the Fraternity of St. Nicholas, edited by N.W. and V.A. James’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 37 (2006), pp. 544-6.
• ‘The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour by Markku Peltonen’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 36 (2005), pp. 527-8.
• ‘The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing and Use by Colin G.C. Tite’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 36 (2005), pp. 188-190.
• ‘The Death of Kings: Royal Deaths in Medieval England by Michael Evans’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 35 (2004), pp. 1182-4.
• ‘West Britons: Cornish identities and the early modern British state by Mark Stoyle’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 34 (2003), pp. 599-600.
• ‘The acoustic world of early modern England: Attending to the O-factor by B.R. Smith’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 33 (2002), pp. 593-5.
• ‘The notorious astrological physician of London: Works and days of Simon Forman by Barbara Howard Traister’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 33 (2002), pp. 302-4.
• ‘Earthly necessities: Economic lives in early modern Britain by Keith Wrightson’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 33 (2002), pp. 313-4.
• ‘The professions in early modern England, 1450-1800: Servants of the commonweal by Rosemary O'Day’, Social History of Medicine, 14 (2001), pp. 557-8.
• ‘Surgery, skin and syphilis: Daniel Turner's London (1667-1741) by Philip K. Wilson’, Social History of Medicine, 14 (2001), pp. 141-2.
• ‘Material London ca.1600 by Lena C. Orlin’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 32 (2001), pp. 273-4.

• ‘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)
• 'Landscape or Land? by Mark Beeson and Christopher Southgate' [poetry], The Dart, 54 (Aug-Sept 1989), p. 6

• '23 January 2009', in HQ Poetry Magazine (The Haiku Quarterly), 37 (2009), p. 18.
• '31 December 1999', in Expression (a magazine for past and present students of the University of Exeter, this poem winning a prize for a poem to commemorate the Millenium).
• 'First Loss', in Acumen, 28 (May 1997), p. 56.
• 'Kiss', in a Poetry Now anthology (not sure of exact title or date, but mid 1990s).
• 'Ghosts [II]', in Acumen, 24 (January 1996), p. 17.
• 'The Beggar Gods' and 'Song above the Wind', in Lines Review, 132 (1995), pp. 19-20.
• 'The Path', in Poetry Nottingham, 47, 4 (winter 1993), p. 6.
• 'Afternoon in N16', 'At the end of the Day' and 'A Thousand Journeys' in Undertow: a Lotus Eaters Publication (University College London, Summer 1993), pp. 8, 15, 33.
• 'Sonnets for Josephine, II & VIII', in Acumen, 17 (April 1993), p. 8.
• 'A Gorgon's Head', in Orbis, 87 (Winter 1992), pp. 54-5.
• 'For Maria', in Outposts, 173 (1993), p. 23.
• 'In my own Country', 'Tears' and 'In the Next Room' in The Honest Ulsterman 93 (1992), pp. 40-2.
• 'The First Stone', in Acumen, 15 (April 1992), pp. 8-9.
• 'Despite Everything', in Orbis, 82 (Autumn 1991), p. 39.
• 'In Our Hands', in Acumen, 13 (April 1991), p. 34.
• 'Ghosts [I]', in Otter: New Devon Poetry, 8 (June 1991), pp. 24-5.
• 'Frailty', in Stand 32, 4 (Autumn 1991), p. 5.
• 'Bellever Tor' and 'Place of Birth', in X-Calibre, 8 (1991), pp. 20-1, 82.
• 'Spring Symphony', in Westwords, 13 (1991), p. 23.
• 'An Incendiary Life', in Otter: New Devon Poetry, 6 (August 1990), p. 18.
• 'The Hearth', in Acumen, 10 (October 1989), p. 6.
• 'No Such Silence', in Outposts, 162 (Autumn 1989), p. 65.
• 'Skylark', in Otter: New Devon Poetry, 3 (July 1989), pp. 11-13.

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