James Gairdner
Biographic Data
| ID | 2419343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Gairdner |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Gairdner |
| SIGNATURE | GAIRDNER J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1873 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII: Preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and Elsewhere in England
Published between 1862 and 1932, and reissued here in multiple parts, this monumental calendar of documents remains an essential starting point for the serious study of Tudor history. An experienced editor of historical texts, John Sherren Brewer (1809–79) had no prior training in the history of the period, yet he brought to the project the necessary industriousness and an impeccable command of Latin. Four volumes appeared before his death, where…
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII: Volume 2, Part 2
Paston Letters, A. D. 1422-1509
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII
Historia Regis Henrici Septimi, a Bernardo Andrea Tholosate Conscripta: Necnon Alia Quaedam Ad Eundem Regem Spectantia
Lollardy and the Reformation in England: An Historical Survey
Lollardy and the Reformation in England: An Historical Survey
The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422–1509
Archivist and historian James Gairdner, C.B. (1828–1912) began his career in the Public Record Office at 18 and retired as assistant keeper forty-seven years later. The author of numerous historical works, Gairdner is best-known for his archival and editorial work, which forms his most significant contributions to historical scholarship. He oversaw almost entirely the publication of Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry …
History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third: To which is Added the Story of Perkin Warbeck from Original Documents
No English king has been the subject of more heated debate than Richard III. In this 1898 revised edition of his classic biography, Gairdner attempts to produce a more balanced analysis of the sources than most earlier writers. While largely accepting the anti-Yorkist position shown by Thomas More and Shakespeare, he does reject some of the crimes attributed to Richard, such as the murder of his brother George, Duke of Clarence. He states at the …
Lollardy and the Reformation in England: An Historical Survey
James Gairdner (1828–1912) was one of the foremost authorities of his day on the Tudor period. This four-volume historical survey (originally published 1908–1913) argues that the impetus for the English Reformation came from the Lollard movement of the late fourteenth century. A prolific researcher and editor, Gairdner devoted his career to English history, and his study is both meticulous and factually sound. His critics, however, were quick to …
Archbishop Morton and St. Albans
Journal Article Archbishop Morton and St. Albans Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XXIV, Issue XCIV, April 1909, Pages 319–321, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XXIV.XCIV.319 Published: 01 April 1909
Henry VIII's English Litanies
Journal Article Henry VIII's English Litanies Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XXIII, Issue XCI, July 1908, Pages 530–533, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XXIII.XCI.530 Published: 01 July 1908
On a Contemporary Drawing of the Burning of Brighton in the time of Henry VIII
There are two different dates in the reign of Henry VIII. at which historians relate, on the authority of early chronicles, that the French landed at Brighton, then called Bright-hampstead or Brighthelmstone, and burned the town. The first was in the spring of 1514, the sixth year of the reign, and the second was in July 1545, the thirty-seventh year of the reign. The contemporary picture-map, of which a copy stands before you, would seem, by an …
A Supposed Conspiracy Against Henry VII
In the last volume of our Transactions is printed a paper by Mr. Leadam, which I had the privilege of hearing when it was read before the Society on May 15, 1902, on ‘An un-known Conspiracy against Henry VII.’ I had not at that time the opportunity of reading the documents on which it was founded, and the few remarks I was able to make upon the subject at the meeting were, I fear, not very edifying. One or two mysterious points are certainly invo…
Bishop Hooper's Visitation of Gloucester
Journal Article Bishop Hooper's Visitation of Gloucester Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XIX, Issue LXXIII, January 1904, Pages 98–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XIX.LXXIII.98 Published: 01 January 1904
The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey
It is sufficiently well known to the general reader of history that the cause of Wolsey's fall was his failure to obtain for Henry VIII. a divorce from Katharine of Arragon. Wolsey had certainly done his utmost in that bad cause, however unwillingly he engaged himself to it in the first instance; for it was a matter of life or death to him to give the king satisfaction. For years the old nobility of England, who were councillors by right of birth…
Member of Parliament’
Journal Article 'MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT' Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XIII, Issue LII, October 1898, Page 708, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XIII.LII.708 Published: 01 October 1898
New Lights on the Divorce of Henry VIII: Iv. The Decretal Commission
Journal Article New Lights on the Divorce of Henry VIII: IV. THE DECRETAL COMMISSION Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XII, Issue XLV, January 1897, Pages 1–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XII.XLV.1 Published: 01 January 1897
English Titles in Pastor's “Geschichte Der Paepste’
ENGLISH TITLES IN PASTOR'S “GESCHICHTE DER PAEPSTE’ JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XII, Issue XLVIII, October 1897, Pages 762-a–762, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XII.XLVIII.762-a Published: 01 October 1897
VII.— The Battle of Bosworth
To make a satisfactory study of the story of a battle it is no doubt desirable to visit the field of action and examine it carefully with one's own eyes. Where much time has elapsed and many changes have taken place in the aspect of the country the written records are not always easy to interpret; and where even these are scanty and obscure a large number of open questions will naturally be the result. Such has been the case with the famous battl…
New Lights on the Divorce of Henry VIII
Journal Article New Lights on the Divorce of Henry VIII Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XII, Issue XLVI, April 1897, Pages 237–253, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XII.XLVI.237 Published: 01 April 1897
The Age of Anne Boleyn
THE AGE OF ANNE BOLEYN Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume X, Issue XXXVII, January 1895, Page 104, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/X.XXXVII.104 Published: 01 January 1895
Mary and Anne Boleyn
Journal Article Mary and Anne Boleyn Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume VIII, Issue XXIX, January 1893, Pages 53–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/VIII.XXIX.53 Published: 01 January 1893
A Letter Concerning Bishop Fisher and Sir Thomas More
A LETTER CONCERNING BISHOP FISHER AND SIR THOMAS MORE Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume VII, Issue XXVIII, October 1892, Pages 712–715, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/VII.XXVIII.712 Published: 01 October 1892
Mary and Anne Boleyn
Journal Article Mary and Anne Boleyn Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume VIII, Issue XXIX, January 1893, Pages 53–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/VIII.XXIX.53 Published: 01 January 1893
New Lights on the Divorce of Henry VIII
Journal Article New Lights on the Divorce of Henry VIII Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XII, Issue XLVI, April 1897, Pages 237–253, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XII.XLVI.237 Published: 01 April 1897
Bishop Hooper's Visitation of Gloucester
Journal Article Bishop Hooper's Visitation of Gloucester Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XIX, Issue LXXIII, January 1904, Pages 98–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XIX.LXXIII.98 Published: 01 January 1904
New Lights on the Divorce of Henry VIII: Iv. The Decretal Commission
Journal Article New Lights on the Divorce of Henry VIII: IV. THE DECRETAL COMMISSION Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XII, Issue XLV, January 1897, Pages 1–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XII.XLV.1 Published: 01 January 1897
The Age of Anne Boleyn
THE AGE OF ANNE BOLEYN Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume X, Issue XXXVII, January 1895, Page 104, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/X.XXXVII.104 Published: 01 January 1895
A Letter Concerning Bishop Fisher and Sir Thomas More
A LETTER CONCERNING BISHOP FISHER AND SIR THOMAS MORE Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume VII, Issue XXVIII, October 1892, Pages 712–715, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/VII.XXVIII.712 Published: 01 October 1892
Original Documents Ralph Lord Cromwell
The Death of Amy Robsart
The Death of Amy Robsart JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume I, Issue II, April 1886, Pages 235–259, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/I.II.235 Published: 01 April 1886
Twelve English Statesmen: William the Conqueror
The Draft Dispensation for Henry Viii's Marriage With Anne Boleyn
THE DRAFT DISPENSATION FOR HENRY VIII'S MARRIAGE WITH ANNE BOLEYN Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume V, Issue XIX, July 1890, Pages 544–546, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/V.XIX.544 Published: 01 July 1890
Did Henry VII Murder the Princes
Journal Article Did Henry VII Murder the Princes? Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume VI, Issue XXIII, July 1891, Pages 444–464, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/VI.XXIII.444 Published: 01 July 1891
A Letter Concerning Bishop Fisher and Sir Thomas More
A LETTER CONCERNING BISHOP FISHER AND SIR THOMAS MORE Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume VII, Issue XXVIII, October 1892, Pages 712–715, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/VII.XXVIII.712 Published: 01 October 1892
Mary and Anne Boleyn
Journal Article Mary and Anne Boleyn Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume VIII, Issue XXIX, January 1893, Pages 53–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/VIII.XXIX.53 Published: 01 January 1893
The Age of Anne Boleyn
THE AGE OF ANNE BOLEYN Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume X, Issue XXXVII, January 1895, Page 104, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/X.XXXVII.104 Published: 01 January 1895
VII.— The Battle of Bosworth
To make a satisfactory study of the story of a battle it is no doubt desirable to visit the field of action and examine it carefully with one's own eyes. Where much time has elapsed and many changes have taken place in the aspect of the country the written records are not always easy to interpret; and where even these are scanty and obscure a large number of open questions will naturally be the result. Such has been the case with the famous battl…
New Lights on the Divorce of Henry VIII
Journal Article New Lights on the Divorce of Henry VIII Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XII, Issue XLVI, April 1897, Pages 237–253, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XII.XLVI.237 Published: 01 April 1897
New Lights on the Divorce of Henry VIII: Iv. The Decretal Commission
Journal Article New Lights on the Divorce of Henry VIII: IV. THE DECRETAL COMMISSION Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XII, Issue XLV, January 1897, Pages 1–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XII.XLV.1 Published: 01 January 1897
English Titles in Pastor's “Geschichte Der Paepste’
ENGLISH TITLES IN PASTOR'S “GESCHICHTE DER PAEPSTE’ JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XII, Issue XLVIII, October 1897, Pages 762-a–762, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XII.XLVIII.762-a Published: 01 October 1897
Member of Parliament’
Journal Article 'MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT' Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XIII, Issue LII, October 1898, Page 708, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XIII.LII.708 Published: 01 October 1898
The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey
It is sufficiently well known to the general reader of history that the cause of Wolsey's fall was his failure to obtain for Henry VIII. a divorce from Katharine of Arragon. Wolsey had certainly done his utmost in that bad cause, however unwillingly he engaged himself to it in the first instance; for it was a matter of life or death to him to give the king satisfaction. For years the old nobility of England, who were councillors by right of birth…
A Supposed Conspiracy Against Henry VII
In the last volume of our Transactions is printed a paper by Mr. Leadam, which I had the privilege of hearing when it was read before the Society on May 15, 1902, on ‘An un-known Conspiracy against Henry VII.’ I had not at that time the opportunity of reading the documents on which it was founded, and the few remarks I was able to make upon the subject at the meeting were, I fear, not very edifying. One or two mysterious points are certainly invo…
Bishop Hooper's Visitation of Gloucester
Journal Article Bishop Hooper's Visitation of Gloucester Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XIX, Issue LXXIII, January 1904, Pages 98–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XIX.LXXIII.98 Published: 01 January 1904
On a Contemporary Drawing of the Burning of Brighton in the time of Henry VIII
There are two different dates in the reign of Henry VIII. at which historians relate, on the authority of early chronicles, that the French landed at Brighton, then called Bright-hampstead or Brighthelmstone, and burned the town. The first was in the spring of 1514, the sixth year of the reign, and the second was in July 1545, the thirty-seventh year of the reign. The contemporary picture-map, of which a copy stands before you, would seem, by an …
Henry VIII's English Litanies
Journal Article Henry VIII's English Litanies Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XXIII, Issue XCI, July 1908, Pages 530–533, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XXIII.XCI.530 Published: 01 July 1908
Archbishop Morton and St. Albans
Journal Article Archbishop Morton and St. Albans Get access JAMES GAIRDNER JAMES GAIRDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XXIV, Issue XCIV, April 1909, Pages 319–321, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XXIV.XCIV.319 Published: 01 April 1909
The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422–1509
Archivist and historian James Gairdner, C.B. (1828–1912) began his career in the Public Record Office at 18 and retired as assistant keeper forty-seven years later. The author of numerous historical works, Gairdner is best-known for his archival and editorial work, which forms his most significant contributions to historical scholarship. He oversaw almost entirely the publication of Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry …
History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third: To which is Added the Story of Perkin Warbeck from Original Documents
No English king has been the subject of more heated debate than Richard III. In this 1898 revised edition of his classic biography, Gairdner attempts to produce a more balanced analysis of the sources than most earlier writers. While largely accepting the anti-Yorkist position shown by Thomas More and Shakespeare, he does reject some of the crimes attributed to Richard, such as the murder of his brother George, Duke of Clarence. He states at the …
Lollardy and the Reformation in England: An Historical Survey
James Gairdner (1828–1912) was one of the foremost authorities of his day on the Tudor period. This four-volume historical survey (originally published 1908–1913) argues that the impetus for the English Reformation came from the Lollard movement of the late fourteenth century. A prolific researcher and editor, Gairdner devoted his career to English history, and his study is both meticulous and factually sound. His critics, however, were quick to …
Lollardy and the Reformation in England: An Historical Survey
Lollardy and the Reformation in England: An Historical Survey
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII
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