Great Britain
epub |eng | | Author:Hugo Vickers

23. Alice Itinerant Alice brightened considerably after her transfer to Merano. In October 1932, Louise was relieved to hear that Alice liked being there, and Victoria told Dr Binswanger that ...
( Category: Royalty March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Tracy Kasaboski & Kristen den Hartog

The very next day the demand for a better defense system grew loud. Disregarding DORA, people signed petitions and staged protests, and by the time the Zeppelins revisited in October, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Natalie Tyler

* * * BARBARA PYM ON HER VISIT TO CHAWTON 11 August, 1969. Visit to Jane Austen’s house. . . . I put my hand down on Jane’s desk and ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Karen Dolby

The tightened security measures at all the royal palaces that followed the break-in also caused a problem for the Queen. Unable to sleep one night, the Monarch decided to take ...
( Category: Great Britain March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-18 | Author:Diana Souhami

THREE When Bertie began his ‘small Mrs George dinners’ in 1898, his mother, Queen Victoria, had been on the throne for sixty-one years. She had two to go. Her fat ...
( Category: LGBT March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-18 | Author:Martyn Whittock

Later life, at Duxbury and Kingston In Plymouth the Howlands lived on the north side of Leyden Street, on the four-acre spot granted to the family by the Division of ...
( Category: Great Britain March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-12 | Author:Martin Gilbert

Immediately after learning of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Churchill had telegraphed to Harry Hopkins, signing the telegram jointly with Averell Harriman. Their message read: “Thinking of you much ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:John Van der Kiste

The months leading up to the Connaught wedding should, therefore, have been a happy time for the family. Instead they were destined to be overshadowed by tragedy in Darmstadt. In ...
( Category: Great Britain March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-28 | Author:Diana Preston

XIV "OUR LITTLE ARK" The next morning, the owner of the house returned with some friends. He expected to find only Dampier, swinging alone in his hammock, and was astonished ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jennifer Potter [Potter, Jennifer]

While including Gerard’s text in his revised edition of the Herball, Thomas Johnson nonetheless introduced a note of realism by declaring that barnacle geese hatched from eggs like any other ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Rostron

9 HMS Tuber Rose In 1918 the Mauretania was commissioned and armed as an auxiliary cruiser, and once again I was on her bridge. The first voyage was made to ...
( Category: History February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:Jayne Baldwin

Elsie and Captain Hinchliffe with the Endeavour. (photograph courtesy of Random House) Captain Hinchliffe took precautions against the possibility of ice forming on the outer fabric of the plane by ...
( Category: Great Britain February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-03 | Author:Stella Tillyard

4 Regent of Style Under the terms of the act that enabled the Regency, George III was suspended from carrying out his royal functions and the Prince of Wales, as ...
( Category: Great Britain February 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-25 | Author:Matthew Jenkinson

Revisiting the royal commission of 1664 In 1799 Hannah Adams’s Summary History of New-England, From the First Settlement at Plymouth was ‘published according to Act of Congress’. It included the ...
( Category: Great Britain January 19,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:Andrew Fisher

C: Carlisle L: Lochmaben N: Newcastle R: Roxburgh E: Edinburgh L: Linlithgow F: Falkirk S: Stirling P: Perth St A: St Andrews LA: Lauder D: Dalhousie T: Temple Liston 7 ...
( Category: Great Britain January 18,2020 )