Historical British Biographies
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-06 | Author:Marc Morris

The Great Cause Within a month of the close of the autumn parliament of 1290 Queen Eleanor was dead. During her stay in Gascony she had contracted a malarial fever ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-26 | Author:Julia Fox

You shall understand that I have submitted me unto the law, and so I am come hither to obey and fulfill the law. And so I can say no more, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Sebastian Faulks

He was a changed man. The alteration was clearest in his face. Almost all the skin on it was new, and although McIndoe had done as well as any surgeon ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Dan Jones

War on All Fronts The sea routes across the English Channel and along the Atlantic coast of France were major trading arteries during the thirteenth century, as merchants from the ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Anna Whitelock [Whitelock, Anna]

The ambassador told Arundell to advise your Majesty of this instantly, which, he said, would serve as a sample and handsel [token] of his goodwill; and within a fortnight or ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Mermaid and the Hare ‘Certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid’s music’ Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (said to be a reference ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-23 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

CHAPTER NINE The Distant Sound of Conflict Come, my lord of Winchester. Answer the king here, but speak plainly and directly and shrink not, man! Is not that which pleases ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:Peter Ford

CHAPTER 9 ‘Such a Gentle, Kindly Man, Poor Thing!’ Even during the early days following his admission to the London Hospital, the case of Joseph Merrick began to attract the ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Elizabeth Norton [Norton, Elizabeth]

10 PRINCESS MARY & THE QUEEN’S AUNTS As the queen, Anne was placed in charge of arranging the household of her daughter, Princess Elizabeth, as well as the arrangements made ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Massie, Allan [Massie, Allan]

Chapter 12 The Interregnum and the Scattered Family (1649–60) The news of the King’s execution shocked the courts of Europe. Few probably would have been surprised, or even distressed, if ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 1988-10-27 | Author:William Manchester [Manchester, William]

Clementine bathing in Chartwell’s swimming pool, one of Winston’s creations. A life mask of Clementine, taken by Paul Hamann, a German artist, in the early 1930s. Major (later Sir) Desmond ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

On November 25, St. Katherine’s Day, Elizabeth went to her coronation sumptuously attired in a kirtle, gown, and mantle of purple velvet, furred with ermine bands, and the same circlet ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )