Hugh Ross Williamson
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Hugh Ross Williamson (1901 - 1978) was a prolific British historian, and a dramatist. Starting from a career in the literary world, and having a Nonconformist background, he became an Anglican clergyman in 1943; and later in 1955 a Catholic convert. He wrote many historical works in a Catholic apologist tone.
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- The Poetry of T. S. Eliot (1932)
- The Seven Deadly Virtues (1936) drama
- Stories From History (1938)
- Who is for Liberty? (1939)
- Paul: A Bond Slave (1945) radio play
- Charles and Cromwell (1946)
- The Story Without End (1947)
- The Arrow and the Sword
- The Seven Christian Virtues (1949)
- Four Stuart Portraits (1949)
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1951)
- Queen Elizabeth (1951) drama
- Ackermann's Cambridge (1952)
- The Story Without an End (1953)
- The Ancient Capital: an Historian In Search Of Winchester (1953)
- Canterbury Cathedral (1953)
- His Eminence of England: the Canterbury Festival Play (1953)
- The Great Prayer: Concerning the Canon of the Mass (1955)
- James By the Grace of God (1955)
- Historical Whodunits (1955)
- The walled garden : an autobiography (1956)
- The Beginning of the English Reformation (1957)
- Enigmas of History (1957)
- The Day They Killed the King (1957)
- Who Was the Man in the Iron Mask?
- The Challenge of Bernadette (1958)
- The Sisters (1958)
- The Gunpowder Plot
- The Conspirators And The Crown (1959)
- Young People's Book of the Saints (1960)
- The Flowering Hawthorn (1962)
- Guy Fawkes (1964)
- The Modern Mass A Reversion To the Reforms of Cranmer (1969)
- The Cardinal in England (1970)
- The Florentine Woman (1970)
- The Last of the Valois (1971)
- Paris is Worth a Mass (1971)
- Kind Kit: an Informal Biography of Christopher Marlowe (1972)
- Catherine de' Medici (1973)
- Lorenzo the Magnificent (1974)
- Captain Thomas Schofield (1975)
- The Princess A Nun!(1978) (completed by Julian Rathbone)
- Conversation with a Ghost – drama
