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1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII by Lipscomb Suzannah
epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Lipscomb, Suzannah [Lipscomb, Suzannah]

CHAPTER 13 Henry VIII’s Theology Henry VIII’s theology seems to have situated itself somewhere between the later identities of Protestant and Catholic, and even somewhere between the contemporary beliefs of ...
( Category: England December 6,2014 )
Great Tales from English History: The Truth About King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart, and More by Lacey Robert
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-03 | Author:Lacey, Robert [Lacey, Robert]

MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL AD 1170 KING HENRY II AND HIS CHANCELLOR Thomas Becket were the closest of friends. People declared the two men ‘had but one heart and one ...
( Category: Biographical November 27,2014 )
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey by Jessie Childs
mobi |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Jessie Childs

Thus, for our guilt, this jewel have we lost. The earth his bones, the heavens possess his ghost.58 Surrey’s implication in these lines is that God took Wyatt from his ...
( Category: Great Britain November 26,2014 )
The Cartel The Inside Story of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang by Graham Johnson
mobi |eng | 2012-09-19 | Author:Graham Johnson

CHAPTER 26 ROUND TWO 1996 THE HANDS-OFF APPROACH was common among Cartel operators. Once they had established their reputation, they could sit back and let others do the legwork without ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
The Cartel: The Inside Story of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang by Johnson Graham
epub |eng | 2012-09-19 | Author:Johnson, Graham [Johnson, Graham]

CHAPTER 26 ROUND TWO 1996 THE HANDS-OFF APPROACH was common among Cartel operators. Once they had established their reputation, they could sit back and let others do the legwork without ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor by Penny Junor
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-03-04 | Author:Penny Junor

TWENTY-EIGHT Community Spirit His experiment at Poundbury is by no means the first time the Prince of Wales has had an influence on government. The Department of Work and Pensions ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
Bomb Girls--Britain's Secret Army by Jacky Hyams
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-23 | Author:Jacky Hyams [Jacky Hyams]

CHAPTER 6 LAURA’S STORY: AN ANGEL AND A ROSE ‘WE WERE TINY COGS IN A SECRET ARMY’ Laura Hardwick was born in Trimdon, County Durham, in 1921. She has the ...
( Category: World War II November 24,2014 )
The Strangest Family by Janice Hadlow
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Janice Hadlow

CHAPTER 11 An Intellectual Malady LIKE LORD HERVEY BEFORE HER, Fanny Burney thought the royal family had little true understanding of what it was like to be ill. ‘The fatigues ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
Mary Rose by David Loades
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:David Loades [Loades, David]

6 MARY, SUFFOLK & THE KING Suffolk’s marriage to Mary brought about significant changes in his life. Any child born to the couple would have a claim to the throne, ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
The Boleyns: The Rise & Fall of a Tudor Family by David Loades
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:David Loades [Loades, David]

It could hardly have been a more composed or orthodox departure, and even Chapuys was impressed. The formalities were quickly completed, and her body was committed for burial beside that ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
This Boy by Johnson Alan
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-08 | Author:Johnson, Alan [Johnson, Alan]

If returning to unlovely North Kensington and the dreaded autumn term at Sloane was dispiriting after the glories of Denmark, I had the new football season to cheer me up. ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester
epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:William Manchester [MANCHESTER, WILLIAM]

Thus the rush of cataclysmic events came down to Tuesday, August 4, 1914, when at midnight Berlin time—11:00 P.M. in London—Grey’s ultimatum to Germany would expire. In Pear Tree Cottage, ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty by Norton Elizabeth
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Norton, Elizabeth [Norton, Elizabeth]

He marryed my mother, a lady bright; That is long sith I saw her with sight; I trust in Iesu [Jesus] wee shall meete with winne, & I shall maintaine ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
Anne Neville: Richard III's Tragic Queen by Licence Amy
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Licence, Amy [Licence, Amy]

9 Richard’s Wife 1472–1483 With love founded on profit, pleasure and honesty then shall true friendship reign among you.1 For the next decade, the rule of Edward IV went unchallenged. ...
( Category: England November 23,2014 )
Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham & the Secret War that Saved England by Hutchinson Robert
epub |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

Soon after Drake’s return from ‘singeing the King of Spain’s beard’, as his exploits were now popularly labelled, Walsingham sat down and drew up plans to gather more timely and ...
( Category: England November 23,2014 )

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