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From Humanism to the Humanities (1986) with
Anthony Grafton
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Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare (1989)
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What's Left?: Women in Culture and the Labour Movement (1989) with
Julia Swindells
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Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print (1993)
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Reading Shakespeare Historically (1996)
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Wordly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance (1996)
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Erasmus: The Education Of A Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria (1997) editor
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Hostage To Fortune - The Troubled Life Of Francis Bacon (1998) with Alan Stewart
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution (1999)
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Francis Bacon: The New Organon (2000) editor with Michael Silverthorne
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On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren (2002)
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For the Sake of Argument (2003)
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The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London (2003)
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London's Leonardo: The Life and Work of Robert Hooke (2003) with Jim Bennett, Michael Cooper and Michael Hunter
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Grayson Perry (2004)
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The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Hand-Gun (2005)
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Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East And West (2005) with Jerry Brotton