Book Reviews
Womersley, James II: The Last Catholic King (Penguin, 2015).
Author:
Hannah Jane Thomas
Durham University, GB
About Hannah
Hannah Thomas is a qualified archivist and early modern historian, specialising in post-Reformation Catholicism in the British Isles. Her PhD (Swansea University, 2014) analysed the extensive Welsh Jesuit missionary library in Hereford and beyond, and its links with the national and international Catholic community. Hannah is currently the holder of a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University, and is interested in death, dying and burial in the exiled communities of English women religious; Welsh Catholicism in the post-Reformation era; and Catholic uses of libraries and collections of appropriate reading material.
Abstract
Review of Womersley's mini-biography of King James II, published in the Penguin Monarchs series.
Published on
06 Jun 2017.
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