Welcome to the official website of the British author and historian Alison Weir.

This author is NOT the American Alison Weir, founder of the organisation If Americans Knew.

Here you will find news and information on upcoming books, a biography, details of upcoming events and tours, and more.

Praise for Alison Weir

"Alison Weir has perfected the art of bringing history to life. There is a breadth of vision to [her] research and writing that provides a sense of time and place as well as consequence." (Chicago Tribune)

"Alison Weir has a wonderful way of bringing…history alive." (Manchester Evening News)

"Alison Weir`s hugely popular history books are as gripping as novels." (The Times)

"Alison Weir is one of our greatest popular historians." (The Daily Mail)

"Alison Weir writes compellingly. Her art is such that the reader is swept along by the story, scarcely noticing how very complicated that story is." (The Literary Review)

"Alison Weir is one of our best popular historians and one, moreover, with an impressive scholarly pedigree in Tudor history." (Frank McLynn, The Independent on Sunday)

"Weir provides immense satisfaction. She writes in a pacy, vivid style, engaging the heart as well as the mind." (Amanda Foreman, The Independent)

"Weir is a master at elucidating the interplay of realpolitik and character…Her assiduousness and informed judgement are what make her a writer to trust." (The Boston Globe)

"I don`t know another historian who can match Weir in showing the cold political calculation, implications and ramifications of the marriages and murders of the English monarchy." (The Boston Globe)

"The scope and depth of Weir`s research provide a wealth of detail missing from many other narrative histories about the Tudors." (Publishers Weekly)

"One of our most accessible historians, Weir is scholarly and straightforward." (Waterstones Books Quarterly)

"Mrs Weir is a fine story teller, basing her texts on very deep research. Her detail is immaculate. She manages her complex material well, but it is her set-piece stories that impress; many have never been told so well." (Teaching History)

"Weir`s great strengths lie in knowing which sources to choose, and her proper scepticism in sorting propaganda from accounts with the ring of truth." (The Glasgow Herald)

"Alison Weir creates engrossing narrative history." (The Boston Globe)

"Alison Weir is one of the best historians of the British monarchy at work today…Weir is so much the master of the period, so intuitive and unsentimental an interpreter of royal minds, and so upfront about her assumptions." (The Boston Globe)

"Weir can always be counted on to tell a superb story." (Booklist)

"Alison Weir has become an authority on Britain`s royal families…she has blown the dust from archives that have mouldered for years in dusty palaces and museums. The result is a series of vivid cameos as brilliantly conceived as they are scholarly." (Birmingham Post)

"Alison Weir has a reputation for producing well-researched, well-written histories." (Yorkshire Evening Press)

"Alison Weir has a brilliant handle of character-driven history titles." (The Bookseller)

"Weir wears her learning lightly and has a pleasant habit of anticipating all the questions of a curious reader." (Publishers Weekly)

"Weir is an expert on Tudor history, and her work is both scholarly and readable - an enviable talent to possess." (The Bookseller)

"If only Alison Weir`s works had been around when I was sitting my history A-levels." (BBC Homes and Antiques)