Historical European Biographies
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Erik Larson

“HOW COULD I TELL HIM,” she wrote later, “that it was one of the strangest evenings I had ever spent in my life?” A sense of foreboding tempered her enjoyment. ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Anna Whitelock

NOW IN POSSESSION of her kingdom, Mary could begin the task of governing. She had won the throne at Framlingham with a small council of her household officers, including Robert ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-08-16 | Author:Doreen Carvajal

Pruning the Tree 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 Arcos de la Frontera, 2008 15 16 The DNA kit was delivered in a small brown envelope with 17 three ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill

12 ‘Here Lies the Body’1 When Henry VIII dissolved the religious houses of England, the fate of the burials within the monastic and conventual churches varied. Occasionally, surviving relatives took ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Ian Hamilton

Chapter Fifteen Twenty-four hours earlier we could have called the whole thing off and gone home to live with nothing worse than our private shame at our failure. Up until ...
( Category: Hoaxes & Deceptions March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-12-22 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

One unwelcome novelty of the latter half of the twentieth century, for example, was the race riot, among the most notable being those of Notting Hill in 1958 and of ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Heike B. Gortemaker; Damion Searls

Eva Braun photographing Hitler in conversation with Morell, 1937 (Illustration Credit 8.8) Thus there is no sign of any professional distance between Hitler’s personal photographer and Hitler’s girlfriend. And so ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Heike B. Gortemaker

Eva Braun photographing Hitler in conversation with Morell, 1937 (Illustration Credit 8.8) Thus there is no sign of any professional distance between Hitler’s personal photographer and Hitler’s girlfriend. And so ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN A Very Near Alliance ‘I do believe we are not so tied, as if we received satisfaction over the principal matter of the sea, there is scope sufficient ...
( Category: England March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

CHAPTER NINE The Mystery of the Royal Will ‘His Majesty … being by God’s sufferance born by just and most certain title and succession to such a kingdom as knows ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-24 | Author:David Bodanis [Bodanis, David]

17 Frederick FLANDERS AND PRUSSIA, 1740–1741 In June 1740 Frederick's father did finally die, which meant that the young, timid Frederick was now king, and Voltaire could begin his plan. ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Susan Ronald

FIFTEEN Massacre in Paris And with this weight I’ll counterpoise a crown, Or with seditions weary all the world. —The Massacre at Paris, act 1, scene 2 by Christopher Marlowe ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:Lambert, Andrew [Lambert, Andrew]

1 Spencer to St Vincent 28.11.1800; Morriss, R. ed. The Channel Fleet and the Blockade of Brest 1793–1801, Aldershot, Navy Records Society, 2001, p. 590. 2 Feldbaek, O. Denmark and ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

15 A settlement of the nation He proposed to them, That the old King being dead, and his son being defeated, it was necessary to come to a Settlement of ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

ought to forget Spain and everything Spanish in order to gain the love of the king and of the English. She had become so much accustomed to this idea that ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )