England
epub |eng | 2019-02-17 | Author:Richard Hayman
THE FURNISHINGS TO A THIRTEENTH-CENTURY churchgoer, to enter a medieval church today would be a shock – a vast clutter of benches and chairs, noticeboards and tables with books, not ...
( Category:
Christian Church History
August 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-08 | Author:John Smith [Smith, John]
An assalt by the Salvages. The planting of Non-such. {MN} Now no sooner was the Ship under sayle, but the Salvages assaulted those hundred and twentie in their Fort, finding ...
( Category:
South
August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Seward, Desmond [Seward, Desmond]
On Sunday 11 August 1415, a bright sunny day, Henry V and his armada set sail. There was only a slight breeze so the voyage across the Channel took three ...
( Category:
England
August 5,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Robert Bucholz & Newton Key [Bucholz, Robert]
The new king’s manner also contrasted sharply with that of his Tudor predecessors, sometimes to his disadvantage. Once again, some of his personal traits were far more damaging then than ...
( Category:
Renaissance
August 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-10 | Author:Adam Nicolson [Adam Nicolson]
EIGHT Glory I PLUNGED BACK into Sissinghurst’s past, to look for the aspects of Sissinghurst that stretched beyond modern tensions and difficulties. I hoped to find Sissinghurst in its glory, ...
( Category:
Photo Essays
August 2,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]
The brief supremacy of Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer, lasting from the autumn of 1326 to the autumn of 1330, was not itself a glorious one. The lands and treasures ...
( Category:
England
August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 1992-01-14 | Author:A. S. Byatt [Byatt, A. S.]
24. Malcolm Haydock Daniel went round to the Haydocks’ on Stephanie’s “day”. It had somehow become impossible to see her at Masters’ Row or in the Vicarage. As he strode ...
( Category:
Metaphysical & Visionary
July 28,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Philippa Gregory
JULY 1473 We halt at the town of Shrewsbury on the way back to London in the last days of July for me to go into confinement in the guest ...
( Category:
Historical
July 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Jon Savage [Savage, Jon]
John Lydon outside number 430, summer 1977 (© Bob Gruen) 23 Youth, after all, is not a permanent condition, and a clash of generations is not so fundamentally dangerous to ...
( Category:
Punk
July 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-05 | Author:Hugo Vickers [Vickers, Hugo]
24 The New Elizabethan Era ‘Life is immensely dull without him’ – the Queen Mother THE DEATH OF the King effectively ended the political life of Queen Elizabeth, forcing her ...
( Category:
Leaders & Notable People
July 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-14 | Author:Lawrence Stone [Stone, Lawrence]
Scotland was naturally well behind England in abandoning the traditional behaviour, which could therefore still be recollected in 1813 by Thomas Somerville, who was born in 1741. He remembered the ...
( Category:
Women's Studies
July 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-05 | Author:Christopher Howse [Howse, Christopher]
‘I’ve lost all my money’ He knew it was time to move on. It was out of the frying pan into the fire. The rapid failure of his music-hall pub, ...
( Category:
Historical Study & Educational Resources
July 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 1970-06-01 | Author:John McPhee [McPhee, John]
ROSS AND NEIL DARROCH have been made redundant. Colonsay is in a state of atrophy, and has been since 1830, when there were a thousand people here, but the atrophy ...
( Category:
Essays
July 7,2020 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-07-05 | Author:Rosemary Hill
22. The First Preaching of Christianity in Britain, by J. R. Herbert, 1842, from an engraving of 1847 by Charles George Lewis. The converted Druid is seen removing his pagan ...
( Category:
Tourist Destinations & Museums
July 6,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-12-09 | Author:Hobbes, Thomas
All according to English measure, and consisting of meadow, arable, and profitable pasture; bogs, woods, and barren mountains being cast in over and above. 2. A revenue was reserved to ...
( Category:
History & Theory
July 3,2020 )
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