Dame (Cicely) Veronica Wedgwood OM DBE was an English historian who published under the name C. V. Wedgwood. Specializing in the history of 17th-century England and Continental Europe, her biographies and narrative histories “provided a clear, entertaining middle ground between popular and scholarly works.”
Books in order of publication:
| Thomas Wentworth: First Earl of Strafford 1593-1641: A Revaluation | 1935 |
| The Thirty Years War | 1938 |
| Oliver Cromwell | 1939 |
| The Emperor Charles V: The Growth and Destiny of a Man and of a World-Empire | 1939 |
| William the Silent: William of Nassau, Prince of Orange 1533-1584 | 1944 |
| Velvet Studies | 1948 |
| Richelieu and the French Monarchy | 1949 |
| The Last of the Radicals | 1951 |
| The King’s Peace, 1637-1641 | 1955 |
| Edward Gibbon | 1955 |
| The King’s War, 1641-1647 | 1958 |
| The Sense of the Past: Thirteen Studies in the Theory and Practice of History | 1960 |
| A Coffin for King Charles: The Trial and Execution of Charles I | 1964 |
| The World of Rubens: 1577-1640 | 1967 |
| Milton and His World | 1969 |
| Seventeenth-Century English Literature | 1970 |
| Oliver Cromwell and the Elizabethan Inheritance | 1970 |
| The Political Career of Peter Paul Rubens | 1975 |
| The Spoils of Time: A History of the World from Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century | 1984 |
| History and Hope: The Collected Essays of C.V. Wedgwood | 1987 |
| Montrose | 1995 |
| The Trial of Charles I | 2001 |
| The English Civil War | 2001 |
| Poetry and Politics under the Stuarts | 2003 |
| Battlefields in Britain | 2014 |
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