Great Britain
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 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-04 | Author:Churchill, Randolph S. [Churchill, Randolph S.]

( Category: Great Britain April 14,2015 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robert Hardman

* Some have accused Blair of breaking the code of secrecy surrounding the meetings of monarch and Prime Minister by describing them in his memoirs. But there are no complaints ...
( Category: Great Britain March 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Colley, Linda. [Colley, Linda]

‘A View of the Town of Rio Janeiro’. Pencil drawing by Alexander Buchan, 1768. Because of the bad weather it had suffered, and of not being able to refit and ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi | | | Author:Max Adam, Max Adams [Adams, Max]

It is also a tradition which has become proverbial, that he died with a prayer on his lips. When he was beset by the weapons of his enemies and saw ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )