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.
2022: The Battle of Bosworth: Sources and Interpretations — Michael K. Jones
2021: Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick — Sean Cunningham
2018: The History of the Worshipful Company of Mercers — Anne F. Sutton
2017: The Wealth of England: The Medieval Wool Trade — Susan Rose
2016: Henry VII: The Maligned Tudor King — Terry Breverton
2015: Henry VII's London — Martha Carlin
2015: The Skinners’ Company 1422–1550 — Matthew Davies
2015: London and the Crown in the Reign of Henry VII — Samantha Harper
2014: Jasper Tudor: Dynasty Maker — Terry Breverton
2014: The Bones of a King: Richard III Rediscovered — Maev Kennedy
2014: The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets — Dan Jones
2013: Bosworth 1485: A Battlefield Rediscovered — Glenn Foard & Anne Curry
2013: Bosworth: The Birth of the Tudors — Chris Skidmore
2013: The King in the Car Park — Richard Buckley et al.
2011: Magna Carta Ancestry — Douglas Richardson
2011: Plantagenet Ancestry — Douglas Richardson
2010: The Wars of the Roses — Michael Hicks
2010: The Economic Origins of the Tudor Regime — Steven Gunn
2009: London and the Wars of the Roses — Mary-Rose McLaren
2007: Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII — Maria Hayward
2006: The Tudor Chronicles 1485–1603 — Penry Williams
2005: The Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People — Anne F. Sutton
2005: The Political Economy of the Firm in the British Merchant Marine — Stanley Engerman
2004: Jasper Tudor (ODNB) — Ralph A. Griffiths
2003: Westminster Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry VII — Tim Tatton-Brown
2003: Anglo-Hanseatic Trade in the Later Middle Ages — Wendy R. Childs
2002: Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle — Michael K. Jones
2002: Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy — Alison Weir
2000: The Tudor Venture: Jasper and Henry Tudor in Exile — John M. Currin
2000: Richard III and the City of London — Anne F. Sutton
1999: Henry VII (2nd Edition) — S. B. Chrimes
1997: The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution — Christine Carpenter
1996: Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483 — Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
1995: A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocers' Company — Pamela Nightingale
1995: Cargoes, Embargoes, and Emissaries: The German Hanse — John D. Fudge
1995: The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr — R. R. Davies
1993: Sir Rhys ap Thomas and His Family — Ralph A. Griffiths
1993: Living and Dying in England 1100–1540: The Monastic Experience — Barbara Harvey
1992: Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty — Michael K. Jones
1991: England and the German Hanse, 1157–1611 — T. H. Lloyd
1989: Richard III: A Study of Service — Rosemary Horrox
1986: The Crowland Chronicle Continuations: 1459-1486 — Nicholas Pronay
1985: The Making of the Tudor Dynasty — Ralph A. Griffiths
1985: The Battle of Bosworth — Michael Bennett
1984: Stephen Gardiner and the Origins of the English Reformation — Michael C. Muccigrosso
1975: Richard III and His Early Historians — Alison Hanham
1972: Henry VII — S. B. Chrimes
1963: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541 — Joyce M. Horn
1961: Gwaith Guto'r Glyn — Ifor Williams
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 Field. For inquiries, collaboration, or to access the embargoed data vault, David can be reached at
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