Biographies
azw3 |eng | 2016-09-28 | Author:Christopher Given-Wilson [Given-Wilson, Christopher]

4 ‘Make it Your Business that We Become Rich’ Edward’s triumph in 1321–2 gave him the opportunity to establish strong and responsible rule in England. Despite the return of the ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-12-28 | Author:James Ross [Ross, James]

3 Collapse and Catastrophe, 1453–1461 In early August 1453, at the royal hunting lodge of Clarendon near Salisbury, Henry VI lost his senses. He would never fully recover them. The ...
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azw3 |eng | 2014-10-31 | Author:Christopher Allmand [Allmand, Christopher]

1 M. Harvey, Solutions to the Schism. A study of some English attitudes, 1378 to 1409 (Sankt Ottilien, 1983), p. 196. 2 Cited by E.F. Jacob, Essays in the conciliar ...
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azw3 |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Michael Prestwich [Prestwich, Michael]

One element of Edward's policy in Gascony which was strikingly successful, was the creation of the bastides. The founding of new towns was a feature of his activities in Wales, ...
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azw3 |eng | 1998-01-20 | Author:Charles Ross [Ross, Charles]

1 Rymer, Foedera, XI, 760; Morice, Mémoires de Bretagne, III, 246–9 (for text of treaty); Pocquet du Haut-Jussé, 172–3. 2 For a contemporary account of his visit, see ‘The Record ...
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azw3 |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:W Mark Ormrod [Ormrod, W Mark]

Chapter 14 THE RANSOMING OF RULERS , 1356–1360 If any confirmation was needed of the invincibility of English arms after the time of Crécy and Neville's Cross, then the battle ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 8,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-12-03 | Author:Philip Ziegler [Ziegler, Philip]

5 The King at War What was a king supposed to do in wartime in the twentieth century? Clearly George VI was not going to lead his troops into battle, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-07-03 | Author:Stella Tillyard [Tillyard, Stella]

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: Specific Group Biographies August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1999-06-09 | Author:E. A. Smith [Smith, E. A.]

Chapter 14 REBELLIOUS DAUGHTER One of the major causes of George’s unpopularity as Regent was his supposed cruel treatment of his daughter Charlotte. She was growing up to be a ...
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azw3 |eng | 2015-08-26 | Author:Douglas Hurd [Hurd, Douglas]

8 Vox Populi It is now possible to measure scientifically the state of public opinion about the Queen and the monarchy. In earlier centuries the ebb and flow of royal ...
( Category: American History August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-31 | Author:Jennifer Loach [Loach, Jennifer]

The king’s acceptance of moral responsibility presented here accords well with the pietistic temper of the Reformation court, which took seriously the medieval themes of mutability and de contemptu mundi. ...
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azw3 |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:J. J. Scarisbrick [Scarisbrick, J. J.]

Primary responsibility for the conduct of Henry's affairs at the Curia lay with two English envoys, William Benet and Edward Carne, able and stout‐hearted men, but of small status – ...
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azw3 |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:John Miller [Miller, John]

CHAPTER TEN King and Parliament (February to November 1685) Three days after Charles died, James announced his intention to summon a Parliament. He also announced that he would continue to ...
( Category: Engineering August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Bennett Cerf [Cerf, Bennett]

One of my close friends was Harold Ross, the founder of The New Yorker; he was, I think, the greatest magazine editor we’ve ever had in this country. He was ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Gilbreath Barton [Barton, David Gilbreath]

13 HOMECOMING THE EVENTS LEADING TO HAVEL’S RELEASE FROM prison began on a Sunday afternoon in January 1983, when he came down with a dangerous case of influenza. By evening, ...
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