Historical European Biographies
epub |eng | 2014-11-19 | Author:Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds
Chapter 11 Bevan’s Record on Housing, 1945–51 The creation of the NHS was an incontestable achievement which, even putting aside the rest of his political career, makes Bevan one of ...
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Communism & Socialism
July 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-25 | Author:Anna Komnene
BOOK ELEVEN THE FIRST CRUSADE (1097–1104) BOHEMOND and all the counts met at a place from which they intended to sail across to Kibotos, and with Godfrey they awaited the ...
( Category:
Rome
July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-25 | Author:Plutarch
When this response was reported, all the Achaeans rejoiced, especially the Sicyonians, who, changing at once from grief to festivity, donned garlands and white garments in order to bring the ...
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Rome
July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 1973-09-27 | Author:Plutarch
5 had perfected a technique of cross-examination which enabled him to corner his opponent by the method of question and answer, and Timon of Phlius has described him as Zeno, ...
( Category:
Europe
July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-04-28 | Author:Snorri Sturluson
50. Hakon returns to Norway HAKON now left Denmark and went back north to his estates in Norway. His kinsman, Earl Orm, was dead by then. Hakon’s friends and kinsmen ...
( Category:
Medieval
July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 1995-02-23 | Author:Adomnan of Iona
Every conscientious reader who has finished reading this three-part book should mark well how great and special is the merit of our reverend abbot; how great and special is his ...
( Category:
Saints
July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Adam Sisman [Sisman, Adam]
Hugh’s Historical Essays was published by Macmillan in the autumn of 1957.* Of the forty-two “essays” in the book, all had been previously published, most of them as book reviews ...
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World War II
July 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Roger Knight [Knight, Roger]
21 Separation 8 November 1800–March 1801 I want neither nursing, or attention, And had you come here, I should not have gone on Shore, Nor would you have come afloat. ...
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Military
July 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:Jean Trumpington [Trumpington, Jean]
CHAPTER TEN Cambridge and Eton When I had first met Barker at Yale, he had been a master at Eton, but during our courtship, he had taken up a history ...
( Category:
Political
July 9,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ron Geaves
Not all Muslims were happy with the proclamation, and Quilliam himself mentions the controversy in Muslim circles and a letter that he received from India which pleaded with him to ...
( Category:
Europe
July 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:James Nice
1985 Perestroika Peter Saville’s designs are always interesting. It’s like poetry for the very young Peter York We haven’t got a lousy reputation, except with journalists – and they don’t ...
( Category:
Performing Arts
July 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-14 | Author:Simon Keynes
THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, 888–900 (pp. 113–20) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle provides the foundation for our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon secular history from its traditional beginnings in the middle of the fifth century ...
( Category:
Renaissance
July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-15 | Author:Magnus Linklater
Massacre of Glencoe And so a company of trustworthy Campbell troops, from the Earl of Argyll’s Regiment of Foot, commanded, as it happened, by a relative by marriage of MacIan’s, ...
( Category:
Rich & Famous
July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:Hans Fallada [Fallada, Hans]
Notes 1. Incorrectly dated: the Reichstag burned down on 27 February 1933. Fallada had to rely entirely on memory when writing these reminiscences, so there are occasional errors and misdatings. ...
( Category:
World War II
July 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-31 | Author:Siân Rees [Rees, Siân]
Then there was a handshake, Max told Lucie he looked forward to meeting her again tomorrow at a dinner arranged for after the meeting, and left. ‘There was never a ...
( Category:
World War II
July 4,2020 )
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