Henry VIII fought many wars, against the French and Scots, against
rebels in England and the Gaelic lords of Ireland, even against his
traditional allies in the Low Countries. But how much did these
wars really affect his subjects? And what role did Henry's reign
play in the long-term transformation of England's military
capabilities? The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII
searches for the answers to these questions in parish and borough
account books, wills and memoirs, buildings and paintings, letters
from Henry's captains, and the notes readers wrote in their printed
history books. It looks back from Henry's reign to that of his
grandfather, Edward IV, who in 1475 invaded France in the afterglow
of the Hundred Years War, and forwards to that of Henry's daughter
Elizabeth, who was trying by the 1570s to shape a trained militia
and a powerful navy to defend England in a Europe increasingly
polarised by religion. War, it shows, marked Henry's England at
every turn: in the news and prophecies people discussed, in the
money towns and villages spent on armour, guns, fortifications, and
warning beacons, in the way noblemen used their power. War
disturbed economic life, made men buy weapons and learn how to use
them, and shaped people's attitudes to the king and to national
history. War mobilised a high proportion of the English population
and conditioned their relationships with the French and Scots, the
Welsh and the Irish. War should be recognised as one of the
defining features of life in the England of Henry VIII.
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