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Into Africa by Martin Dugard
epub |eng | 2003-05-05 | Author:Martin Dugard

• CHAPTER 20 • Gondokoro May 26, 1871 Gondokoro, the Upper Nile 730 Miles to Livingstone As he stood on the edge of the Nile, with rows and rows of ...
( Category: Great Britain May 27,2015 )
Admiral Collingwood by Max Adams
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Max Adams [Adams, Max]

9 Giddy with the multiplicities 1806–1808 Collingwood’s head was spinning too, and with good reason. In October 1805 he had been second-in-command to Nelson at a victory which was (and ...
( Category: France May 27,2015 )
The Sixties by Jenny Diski
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:Jenny Diski [Diski, Jenny]

There were other versions of changing the world. For readers of Marcuse, even such as Tariq Ali, for example: . . . the long march did not mean “boring from ...
( Category: England May 25,2015 )
And the Band Played on . . .: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank by Christopher Ward
epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Christopher Ward [Ward, Christopher]

HUME, ANDREW, born Dumfries 7th May 1864. Violinist, bassoonist, banjo player and composer. Pupil of M Sainton. Established in his native city as professor of the above instruments and teacher ...
( Category: Great Britain April 23,2015 )
Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900 (Volume I) by Churchill Randolph S
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-04 | Author:Churchill, Randolph S. [Churchill, Randolph S.]

( Category: Great Britain April 14,2015 )
A Magnificent Obsession: The Death That Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Helen Rappaport

Chapter Eleven ‘A Married Daughter I Must Have Living with Me’ In the spring of 1863 the British public resolutely shook off its gloom and enjoyed a few days of ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
The Men Who Would Be King by Josephine Ross
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-16 | Author:Josephine Ross

6 “The Weal of the Kingdom” While there was “but one mistress and no master” in England, there would be no heirs born to the queen. Admirable as her desire ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
Winter King by Thomas Penn
epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Thomas Penn [Penn, Thomas]

10 New Heaven, New Earth In autumn 1504 Desiderius Erasmus was in Paris; as usual, he was broke. News reached him from England, where his friend John Colet, the ascetic ...
( Category: England March 27,2015 )
Stephen & Matilda: The Civil War of 1139-53 by Bradbury Jim
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Bradbury, Jim [Bradbury, Jim]

THE ROUT OF WINCHESTER There were two castles in Winchester: the royal castle, which Matilda had already claimed, and the bishop’s own stronghold, Wolvesey Castle, which has recently been reopened ...
( Category: England March 25,2015 )
Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp through the Extramarital Adventures that Rocked the British Monarchy by Leslie Carroll
epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]

JAMES II OF ENGLAND/JAMES VII OF SCOTLAND and Anne Hyde 1637-1671 The prodigiously buxom and flirtatious Anne Hyde was the daughter of Edward Hyde, a Wiltshire lawyer who turned to ...
( Category: England March 22,2015 )
Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey through Nine Centuries of Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire by Leslie Carroll
epub |eng | 2010-01-30 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]

Catherine placed this letter in a cabinet in her study and locked it away. There it remained throughout her reign, discovered after her death by the new emperor, her son, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 22,2015 )
Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII by Sarah-Beth Watkins
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Sarah-Beth Watkins [Watkins, Sarah-Beth]

Seen in context, Hale was blaming Mr Skidmore (or Scudamore) for suggesting that Henry Carey was the King’s son. It was just one of many libellous statements that Hale made, ...
( Category: England March 22,2015 )
The Dublin King: The True Story of Lambert Simnel and the Princes in the Tower by John Ashdown-Hill
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-14 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill [Ashdown-Hill, John]

Notes Abbreviations CPR Calendar of Patent Rolls ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography PROME Parliament Rolls of Medieval England 1. See, for example, Ashdown-Hill, Royal Marriage Secrets, pp. 70–3. 2. ...
( Category: England March 21,2015 )
Sir Francis Walsingham by Derek Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:Derek Wilson

Chapter 7 ‘SHE SEEMETH TO BE VERY EARNESTLY BENT TO PROCEED’ 1581–4 ‘I content myself, Monsieur, that you assure yourself of me as of the most faithful friend that ever ...
( Category: Great Britain March 21,2015 )
Autobiography (Routledge Classics) by Russell Bertrand
mobi |eng | 2009-07-02 | Author:Russell, Bertrand [Russell, Bertrand]

MEMORANDUM ON THE BOXER INDEMNITY by Bertrand Russell The Boxer Indemnity Bill, now in Committee, provides that what remains unpaid of the Boxer Indemnity shall be spent on purposes to ...
( Category: Great Britain March 8,2015 )

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