The Gardiner Scholarship: Key Historical Sources

By David T Gardner, December 3rd, 2025


The Gardiner Scholarship: Key Historical Sources

Disclaimer: A bibliography of the key academic and historical works consulted to validate the Gardiner thesis.

  1. 2022: The Battle of Bosworth: Sources and Interpretations — Michael K. Jones

  2. 2021: Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick — Sean Cunningham

  3. 2018: The History of the Worshipful Company of Mercers — Anne F. Sutton

  4. 2017: The Wealth of England: The Medieval Wool Trade — Susan Rose

  5. 2016: Henry VII: The Maligned Tudor King — Terry Breverton

  6. 2015: Henry VII's London — Martha Carlin

  7. 2015: The Skinners’ Company 1422–1550 — Matthew Davies

  8. 2015: London and the Crown in the Reign of Henry VII — Samantha Harper

  9. 2014: Jasper Tudor: Dynasty Maker — Terry Breverton

  10. 2014: The Bones of a King: Richard III Rediscovered — Maev Kennedy

  11. 2014: The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets — Dan Jones

  12. 2013: Bosworth 1485: A Battlefield Rediscovered — Glenn Foard & Anne Curry

  13. 2013: Bosworth: The Birth of the Tudors — Chris Skidmore

  14. 2013: The King in the Car Park — Richard Buckley et al.

  15. 2011: Magna Carta Ancestry — Douglas Richardson

  16. 2011: Plantagenet Ancestry — Douglas Richardson

  17. 2010: The Wars of the Roses — Michael Hicks

  18. 2010: The Economic Origins of the Tudor Regime — Steven Gunn

  19. 2009: London and the Wars of the Roses — Mary-Rose McLaren

  20. 2007: Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII — Maria Hayward

  21. 2006: The Tudor Chronicles 1485–1603 — Penry Williams

  22. 2005: The Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People — Anne F. Sutton

  23. 2005: The Political Economy of the Firm in the British Merchant Marine — Stanley Engerman

  24. 2004: Jasper Tudor (ODNB) — Ralph A. Griffiths

  25. 2003: Westminster Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry VII — Tim Tatton-Brown

  26. 2003: Anglo-Hanseatic Trade in the Later Middle Ages — Wendy R. Childs

  27. 2002: Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle — Michael K. Jones

  28. 2002: Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy — Alison Weir

  29. 2000: The Tudor Venture: Jasper and Henry Tudor in Exile — John M. Currin

  30. 2000: Richard III and the City of London — Anne F. Sutton

  31. 1999: Henry VII (2nd Edition) — S. B. Chrimes

  32. 1997: The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution — Christine Carpenter

  33. 1996: Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483 — Charles Lethbridge Kingsford

  34. 1995: A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocers' Company — Pamela Nightingale

  35. 1995: Cargoes, Embargoes, and Emissaries: The German Hanse — John D. Fudge

  36. 1995: The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr — R. R. Davies

  37. 1993: Sir Rhys ap Thomas and His Family — Ralph A. Griffiths

  38. 1993: Living and Dying in England 1100–1540: The Monastic Experience — Barbara Harvey

  39. 1992: Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty — Michael K. Jones

  40. 1991: England and the German Hanse, 1157–1611 — T. H. Lloyd

  41. 1989: Richard III: A Study of Service — Rosemary Horrox

  42. 1986: The Crowland Chronicle Continuations: 1459-1486 — Nicholas Pronay

  43. 1985: The Making of the Tudor Dynasty — Ralph A. Griffiths

  44. 1985: The Battle of Bosworth — Michael Bennett

  45. 1984: Stephen Gardiner and the Origins of the English Reformation — Michael C. Muccigrosso

  46. 1975: Richard III and His Early Historians — Alison Hanham

  47. 1972: Henry VII — S. B. Chrimes

  48. 1963: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541 — Joyce M. Horn

  49. 1961: Gwaith Guto'r Glyn — Ifor Williams

  50. 1953: The Complete Peerage — Cokayne & Gibbs



About the Author


David T. Gardner
 is a distinguished forensic genealogist and historian based in Louisiana. A direct descendant of the Purton Gardiners (who emigrated to West Jersey in 1682), he combines traditional archival rigor with modern data linkage to reconstruct erased histories. He is the author of the groundbreaking work, William Gardiner: The Kingslayer of Bosworth FieldFor inquiries, collaboration, or to access the embargoed data vault, David can be reached at gardnerflorida@gmail.com or through his research hub at KingslayersCourt.com.

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Citation & Legal Status Dataset: The Unicorns Debt Vol #1 | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17670478 Copyright: © 2025 David T. Gardner, https://wyllyam.kingslayerscourt.com/p/the-gardiner-scholarship-key-historical.html – First Publication. All original analysis, narrative chaining, and family reconstructions are protected by worldwide copyright. Data Status: Embargoed via Zenodo until 25 Nov 2028. Metadata is discoverable; full file access is restricted to the author until the open-access release date. License: Upon release, data becomes CC BY 4.0. Commercial use is strictly prohibited without written license. Citation: Gardiner, David T. (2025). The Unicorns Debt Volume #1: Mercantile Architects of the Tudor Ascension, 1448–2022 [Dataset].