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Sustaining the National Effort in Henry VIII's Total War of 1512–13
Henry VIII inherited the crown in 1509 with a full treasury and burning ambition to achieve greatness as a model Renaissance prince. With war at the forefront of his quest for glory, when campaigns were launched against France and Scotland during 1512 – 13, as many as 100,000 men were in arms across those two years. This was not a permanent standing army, but a trained citizen force.
When the broader civilian contribution is incorporated from war work to supply equipment, food, logistics, and expertise, the proportion of involvement from the king's English, Welsh and Irish subjects reached levels similar to those found during the Second World War.
This PhD project will utilise a broad selection of archival material in national and regional collections, especially family papers, manorial documents and urban government records, to develop new knowledge and insight into the production and storage of war material in manors, towns, castles, granaries, and manufactories.
The arrival at The National Archives of the Parliamentary Archives invites a new survey of the Crown's influence over the war economy through government legislation and proclamations regulating Crown estates and supply. The project will exploit existing digital resources and make use of underexplored Tudor financial manuscripts in our collection, including E 101, E 351, SC 6 and E 36.
For more information about this project, please get in touch with The National Archives’ project team: Sean Cunningham.