Dr. Simon Thurley's Full bibliography: Click on an item to expand/collapse it.
The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: A Social and Architectural History, (Yale University Press, 1993).
The King’s Privy Garden at Hampton Court Palace, 1689-1995, Ed., (Apollo, 1995)
The Lost Palace of Whitehall, (Royal Institute of British Architects, Exhibition Catalogue, 1998, reprinted 1999)
The Whitehall Palace Plan of 1670, (London Topographical Society Publication, 153, 1998)
Whitehall Palace, an Architectural History of the Royal Apartments 1260-1698, (Yale University Press, 1999)
Hampton Court Palace: A Social and Architectural History, (Yale, 2004)
Lost Buildings of Britain (London, 2004)
Whitehall Palace (Historic Royal Palaces, 2008)
Somerset House, The Palace of England's Queens 1551-1692 (with contributions by Patricia Croot and Claire Gapper), (London Topographical Society Publication 168, 2009)
Excavations at Oatlands Palace 1968-73 and 1983-4, (With Rob Poulton and Alan Cook), (Woking, 2010)
Building England. Architecture in England 1000-2000 (In Preparation)
‘Henry VIII and the Building of Hampton Court: A Reconstruction of the Tudor Palace’, Architectural History, 31, (1998), pp.1-57.
‘Excavations on the West Side of Whitehall 1960-2 Part I: From the Building of the Tudor Palace to the Construction of the Modern Offices of State’, The London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Transactions, (1990), pp.59-130.
‘The Tudor Kitchens at Hampton Court’, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, CXLIII, (1990), pp.1-28.
‘Whitehall Palace and King Street, Westminster: The Urban Cost of Princley Magnificence’, London Topographical Record, XXVI, (1990), pp.57-77, (with Gervaise Rosser).
‘The Building of the King’s Apartments, A most Popular Monarch’, Apollo, CXL, (1994), No. 390, pp. 10-21
‘William III’s Privy Garden at Hampton Court Palace: Research and Restoration’, Apollo, (June, 1995), pp.3-22.
‘The Royal Lodgings at the Tower of London 1240-1320’, Architectural History, 38, (1995), pp 36-37.
‘The Stuart Kings, Oliver Cromwell and the Chapel Royal 1618-1685’, Architectural History, 45, (2002), pp.238-274.
‘Architecture and Diplomacy; Greenwich Palace under the Stuarts’, The Court Historian 11.2 (January 2007) pp.21-29.
'The Cloister and the Hearth, Henry VIII and the Early Tudor Palace Plan', Journal of The British Archaeological Association, 162, (2009), pp179-195
'Kensington Palace: an incident in Anglo-Dutch architectural collaboration?' The Georgian Group Journal (XVII) 2009, pp.1-18.
Contributions to multi-author books of Essays
‘The Domestic Building Works of Cardinal Wolsey’, Cardinal Wolsey: Church, State and Art, Eds., S. Gunn & P. Lindley, (Cambridge, 1990), pp.76-102.
‘Greenwich Palace: The Banqueting House of 1527, The Sport of Kings’, in Henry VIII, A European Court in England, Ed., D. Starkey, (National Maritime Museum, Exhibition Catalogue, 1991), pp.20-26, 64-70, 163-172.
‘Tudor and Jacobean’, The Elements of Style Ed., Stephen Calloway, (Mitchell Beazley, 1991, second edition with revisions, 1996), pp.12-39.
‘The Palaces of Henry VIII’, Architecture et Vie Sociale ŕ La Renaissance, L’organisation Intérieure des Grandes Demeures ŕ la Fin du Moyen Age et ŕ la Renaissance, Ed., J. Guillaume, (Picard), (1994), pp.97-106.
‘Hampton Court Palace’, Macmillan Dictionary of Art (1995)
‘The Restoration of Hampton Court’, in Das Schloss und Seind Ausstattung (Icomos, 1995), pp.67-71.
‘Palace Revolution: Ideas for Reversing Decline in England’s Royal Palaces’, Abitare La Storia, le Dimore Storiche Museo, Ed., Luca Leoncini and Farida Simonetti, (Genoa, 1997), pp.89-94
‘Whitehall Palace and Westminster 1400-1600: A Royal Seat in Transition’, Eds., David Gaimster & Paul Stamper, The Age of Transition (Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 98, 1997), pp.93-104.
‘A Country House fit for a King Charles II, Winchester and Greenwich’, The Stuart Court, (2000), Ed., E.Cruickshanks pp.214-239.
‘Royal Palaces’, Tudor England an Encyclopaedia, Ed., Arthur F. Kinney and David W. Swain, (New York 2001), pp. 613-165.
‘The Impact of Royal landholdings on the County of Surrey 1509-1649’, Aspects of Archaeology and History in Surrey: Towards a Research Framework for the County, (Surrey Archaeological Society, 2004), pp.155-168.
‘The Politics of Court Space in Early Stuart London’ Marcello Fantoni, George Gorse and Malcolm Smuts Eds, The Politics of Space: European Courts 1500-1750 (2009), pp193-208
'The Old Palace', M Etherington-Smith Ed, Somerset House: The History, (2009), pp9-24
'The Cardinal of King Henry VIII of England. Thomas Wolsey.' Frederique Lemerle, Yves Pauwels and Gennaro Toscanno, Les Cardinaux de la Renaissance, (Tours, 2009), pp.39-50
‘Palaces for a Tudor King’, Country Life, (October 1991), pp.86-89.
‘Palaces for a Nouveau Riche King’, History Today, (June 1991), pp.10-14.
‘All the King’s Houses’, Country Life, (October 10th 1991), pp.86-89.
‘Hampton Court Middlesex. The Palace in the Nineteenth Century’, Country Life, (June 1st 1995), pp.80-85.
‘William III’s Privy Garden at Hampton Court: Points of Entry’, History Today, Vol. 47(5), (May 1997), pp.62-3
‘Magnificent Chaos, London’s Lost Palace’, Country Life, (February 5th 1998), pp.42-5.
‘The Lost Palace of Whitehall’, History Today, (January 1998), pp.47-53.
‘How London Learned to Eat Out’, Country Life, (November 18th 1999), pp.72-73.
‘London’s Hidden Depths, 160 Years of Archaeology in London’, Illustrated London News, (December 1999), pp.40-42.
‘Digging to Londinuim’, Country Life, (November 2nd, 2000), pp. 124-127
‘Roman Holidays’, History Today, (December 2000), pp. 62-63
‘The Art of Hugh Buchanan’ Francis Kyle Gallery, (November 2000)
Crosby Hall Chelsea, Country Life, (October 2nd 2003) pp.72-6
The Early Stuarts at Hampton Court, History Today (November, 2003) pp.14-2
Nearly our Greatest Palace, (Winchester Palace) Country Life, (March 3rd 2005), pp. 92-5
Nonsuch: A Palace fit for a Prince? Country Life, (August 11, 2005), pp.42-5
The True Story of the Royal Maze Country Life, (September 15, 2005), pp.148-9
Kimbolton Castle, Country Life (March 30, 2006), pp.66-71
Newmarket Palace, Country Life (April 24 2008), pp.100-103.
Somerset House, Country Life (forthcoming 2008)
The Tudor Kitchens at Hampton Court, a Souvenir Guide, (Historic Royal Palaces, 1991).
The King’s Apartments, A Souvenir Guide, (Historic Royal Palaces, 1992).
Hampton Court Palace, Official Guidebook, (Historic Royal Palaces, 1992, reprinted 1993 and 1994. Entirely new edition, 1996).
The Crown Jewels, Official Guidebook, (HM Tower of London, 1994), (revised and expanded edition).
Kew Palace, Official Guidebook, (Historic Royal Palaces, 1995), (With Suzanne Groom).
The Banqueting House, Official Guidebook, (Historic Royal Palaces, 1997), (With Suzanne Groom and Susan Jenkins).
The Spitalfields Roman, (Museum of London, 1999).
‘From Rags to Riches’, The Book of London Walks II, (Time Out, 2001, reprinted April 2005),pp.284-295.
‘‘The Palaces of Medieval England’, by T.B. James, Archaeological Journal.
‘Houses of Noble Poverty’, by Brian Howson, Times Literary Supplement, (March 1994)
‘The Great Rebuildings of Tudor and Stuart England’, by Colin Platt, Perspectives on Architecture, (December 1994).
Michael Thompson, ‘The Medieval Hall: The Basis of Secular Life 600-1600AD’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 56:4 (December 1997), pp.50-6.
Francis Sheppard, ‘London: A History’, Stephen Inwood, ‘A History of London’, & Roger Hudson, ‘London Portrait of a City’, The Times Higher Supplement, March 5th 1998, pp.26-7.
John D.Dunbar, ‘The Royal Palaces of Scotland’, Society of Architectural Historians Newsletter, (1999).
John D. Dunbar, ‘The Royal Palaces of Scotland’, The Court Historian .pp
Peter Ackroyd, ‘London the Biography’, The Times Higher Educational Supplement, 16th November 2000.
St Pauls and Hooke The Times Higher Educational Supplement
Richard Jenkyns, Westminster Abbey, Times Higher Education Supplement, February 25 2005 p.32
David Watkin, ‘The architect King’; Francis Russell, ‘John 3rd Earl of Bute’; Jane Roberts, ‘George II and Queen Caroline’, The Court Historian