Establishing the Tudor dynasty / David Grummitt -- The rise of the Tudor state / Joe Block -- Elizabethan government and politics / David Dean -- The courts / Retha Warnicke -- The law / DeLloyd Guth -- County government in England and Wales / Steve Hindle -- Town and city government / Catherine F. Patterson -- Regional political relations / Steven Ellis -- Politics and government of Scotland / Jenny Wormald -- Anglo-Scottish relations / Jane Dawson -- Britain and the wider world / David Potter -- Traditional belief and practice / Ben R. McRee -- The dissolutions and their aftermath / Peter Cunich -- Religious settlements / Norman Jones -- Catholic recusancy / William Sheils -- Protestant dissent in Elizabethan England / Peter Kaufman -- The Scottish Reformation / Michael F. Graham -- Rural economy and society / R.W. Hoyle -- The urban economy / Alan Dyer -- The great metropolis / Joseph Ward -- Society and social relations / Robert Tittler -- Women in the British Isles / Anne Laurence -- The sense of the past / D.R. Woolf -- Tudor drama, theatre, and society / Alexandra F. Johnston -- Portraiture, politics, and society / Robert Tittler -- Architecture, politics, and society / Malcolm Airs -- Music, politics, and society / John Milsom -- Science, technology, and society / Leslie B. Cormack.