Lacey Baldwin Smith (1922 – September 8, 2013) was an historian and author specialising in 16th-century England. He was the author of ''Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty'' and ''

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: A Tudor Tragedy'', among other books. Lacey Baldwin Smith 1975

Born in

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, Smith taught at

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, the

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, and

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. He received two

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awards, two

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fellowships, a

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, and other awards. He lived in Vermont during his retirement, dying at

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. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1972.

Works

*''Tudor Prelates and Politics, 1536–1558'' (Princeton Studies in History. vol. 8.) (1953) *''Catherine Howard: A Tudor Tragedy'' *''The Elizabethan Epic'' (1966) *''The Horizon Book of the Elizabethan World'' (1966; Reprinted as ''The Elizabethan World'', 1973) *''Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty'' (1973) *''Elizabeth Tudor: Portrait of a Queen'' (1976) *''Dimensions of the Holocaust'' (1977, 2nd ed., 1990). Lectures at Northwestern University by

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, Lucy S. Dawidowicz,

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, and

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; foreword by Lacey Baldwin Smith. *''Treason in Tudor England: Politics & Paranoia'' (1986) *''Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World'' (1997) *''English History Made Brief, Irreverent and Pleasurable'' (2007) *''This Realm of England 1399–1688'' *''Anne Boleyn: The Queen of Controversy'' (2013)

References

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