The role of the Tower as a state prison and place of execution has dominated the literature to an excessive degree. The following brief list represents some of the published accounts believed to represent the history of the site most accurately, though some less-scholarly treatments are included in the general section for the sake of even-handedness.

General:

J Bayley, The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, volume 1 (London, 1821).

R A Brown and P E Curnow, The Tower of London (London, 1984).

J Charlton (ed), The Tower of London. Its Buildings and Institutions (London, 1978).

E Impey and G Parnell, The Tower of London. The Official Illustrated History (London, 2000).

G Parnell, The Tower of London (London, 1993).

G Parnell, The Tower of London. Past and Present (Stroud, 1998).

Specific:

J Ashbee, The Tower of London and the Jewish expulsion of 1290. Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 55 (2004), 35-37.

Archaeological/Architectural:

G T Clark, 'Some Particulars Concerning the Military Architecture of the Tower of London’ in Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Old London (London, 1867), pp 11-189.

S Thurley, Royal Lodgings at the Tower of London. 1216-1327, Architectural History, 38 (1995), pp 36-57.