mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Niall Ferguson

Though primarily conpiracy theorists, writers like Drumont and Chirac were also preoccupied with the Rothschilds’ penetration of French high culture and society. In the second volume of Jewish France, Drumont ...

mobi |eng | 2011-02-18 | Author:Alison Weir

No one was more delighted than the Queen when Mary signed her submission. Jane had worked for months towards a reconciliation, and she now looked forward to receiving her stepdaughter ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill

12 ‘Here Lies the Body’1 When Henry VIII dissolved the religious houses of England, the fate of the burials within the monastic and conventual churches varied. Occasionally, surviving relatives took ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-06 | Author:Marc Morris

The Great Cause Within a month of the close of the autumn parliament of 1290 Queen Eleanor was dead. During her stay in Gascony she had contracted a malarial fever ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-08-30 | Author:Aron Ralston

Eight “I’m Goin’ to Utah” People say that we’re searching for the meaning of life. I don’t think that’s it at all. I think that what we’re seeking is an ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Sebastian Faulks

He was a changed man. The alteration was clearest in his face. Almost all the skin on it was new, and although McIndoe had done as well as any surgeon ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Anna Whitelock [Whitelock, Anna]

The ambassador told Arundell to advise your Majesty of this instantly, which, he said, would serve as a sample and handsel [token] of his goodwill; and within a fortnight or ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

The government’s first warrant for arrest was issued in the name of Thomas Percy. He was described as a tall man with stooping shoulders, having ‘a great broad beard’ grizzled ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

CHAPTER TWELVE The Third Marriage This the third marriage was confirmed by them all to be good and lawful. Chronicle by a monk of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, 1536 The trial ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN A Very Near Alliance ‘I do believe we are not so tied, as if we received satisfaction over the principal matter of the sea, there is scope sufficient ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

I find this pardon pardons not … In a country so recently torn by war, there was of course a crying need for a new kind of social policy, or ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Philip Sudgen [Sudgen, Philip]

This newspaper tale is not corroborated in any of the official documentation now extant. Even if it is not a complete fiction there is no proof that the man Blenkingsop ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

CHAPTER XXIII - ENGLAND UNDER EDWARD THE FOURTH * * * KING EDWARD THE FOURTH was not quite twenty-one years of age when he took that unquiet seat upon the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Mortimer, Ian [Mortimer, Ian]

Noble Households When it comes to good food, the nobleman’s table is the place to be. The very best cuisine, and the greatest variety, is served directly to the lord ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Mortimer, Ian [Mortimer, Ian]

poultry (8s) nineteen acres of wheat (£27 10s) three horses (£6 10s) four acres of rye (£5) six pigs (£2 13s 4d) thirty-two acres of barley (£32) eight cows (£16) ...