Ralph Houlbrooke

Ralph Houlbrooke is emeritus professor of early modern history at the University of Reading. He is chairman of the Berkshire Record Society.

Selected publications

Publications include:

. The Letter Book of John Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich, compiled during the years 1571-5 Church Courts and the People during the English Reformation, 1520-1570 The English Family 1450-1700
with George Parfitt, The Courtship Narrative of Leonard Wheatcroft, Derbyshire Yeoman English Family Life, 1576-1716: an Anthology from Diaries
, Death, Ritual and Bereavement Death, Religion and the Family in England, 1480-1750
, ''James VI and I: Ideas, Authority, and Government''