David Michael LoadesFSA (19 January 1934 – 21 April 2016)^[1][2] was a Britishhistorian specialising in theTudor era. He served in the RAF 1953-55 and gained his BA and PhD at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.^[3] He wasEmeritus Professor of History at theUniversity of Wales, where he taught from 1980 until 1996, and was Honorary Research Professor at theUniversity of Sheffield from 1996 until 2008.^[1] In the 1960s and 1970s he taught at the universities ofSt. Andrews andDurham.^[1] From 1993 until 2004 he acted as Literary Director of the John Foxe Project at theBritish Academy;^[1][4] he subsequently became an Honorary Member of the History Faculty at theUniversity of Oxford.^[5] Aftermilitary service in theRoyal Air Force 1953–1955,^[1] Loades studied at theUniversity of Cambridge. He wrote many books on the Tudor period, includingbiographies.^[6] He was President of theEcclesiastical History Society (1992–93).^[7]

From 1965 to 1981, he was married toAnn (née Glover). They did not have any children, and their marriage ended in divorce.^[8]

• Two Tudor Conspiracies (Cambridge University Press, 1965; new edition Headstart, 1992)
• The Oxford Martyrs (Batsford, 1970; Headstart, 1992)
• Politics and the Nation, 1450–1660 (Fontana, 1974; subsequent editions 1979, 1986, 1992, 1999)
• The Reign of Mary Tudor (Benn, 1979, second edition Longmans, 1991; German translation 1982)
• Mary Tudor: A Life (Blackwell, 1989)
• The Tudor Court (Batsford, 1986)
• The Tudor Navy: An Administrative, Political and Military History (Aldershot, 1992)
• The Mid-Tudor Crisis, 1545–1565 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1992)
• The Politics of Marriage: Henry VIII and his Queens (Sutton, 1994; several subsequent editions; translated into Spanish and Russian)
• Essays on the Reign of Edward VI (Headstart, 1994)
• John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland 1504–1553 (Oxford University Press, 1996)
• Tudor Government (Blackwell, 1997)
• Power in Tudor England (Macmillan, 1997)
• England’s Maritime Empire: Seapower, Commerce and Policy, 1490–1690 (Longmans, 2000)
• Elizabeth I (Hambledon Continuum, 2003)
• Elizabeth I: The Golden Reign of Gloriana (The National Archives, 2003)
• Intrigue and Treason: The Tudor Court 1547–1558 (Pearson Longmans, 2004)
• Mary Tudor: The Tragical History of the First Queen of England (The National Archives, 2006)
• The Cecils: Privilege and Power behind the Throne (The National Archives, 2007)
• Henry VIII: Court, Church and Conflict (The National Archives, 2007)
• The Princes of Wales (The National Archives, 2008)
• The Life and Career of William Paulet, c.1475–1572 (Ashgate, 2008)
• The Fighting Tudors (The National Archives, 2009)
• The Tudor Queens of England (Hambledon Continuum 2009)
• Henry VIII: King and Court (The Pitkin Guide, 2009)
• The Tudors for Dummies (John Wylie & Sons, 2010)
• Henry VIII (Amberley, 2011)
• The Boleyns (Amberley, 2011)
• The Tudors: History of a Dynasty (Continuum, 2012)
• Mary Rose: Tudor Princess, Queen of France. The Extraordinary Life of Henry VIII's Sister (Amberley, 2012)
• Catherine Howard: The Adulterous Wife of Henry VIII (Amberley, 2012)
• Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's Favourite Wife (Amberley, 2013)
• The Kings & Queens of England: The Biography (Amberley, 2013)
• Thomas Cromwell: Servant to Henry VIII (Amberley, 2013)
• The Seymours of Wolf Hall: A Tudor Family Story (Amberley, 2015)

• David Loades Homepage
• David Loades:The Maitland Controversy

• 1934 births
• 2016 deaths
• Academics of Bangor University
• Academics of Durham University
• Academics of the University of Sheffield
• Academics of the University of St Andrews
• Academics of the University of Wales
• Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
• British historians
• Presidents of the Ecclesiastical History Society
• Royal biographers
• Tudor historians

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