England
epub |eng | 2020-05-13 | Author:Dylan Howard

*** By now, Kate Middleton was a good friend. William and the girl from Marlborough School had grown close despite their mutual reserve, which concealed strikingly similar tastes and outlooks ...
( Category: Royalty July 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Dan Jackson

5 HARD WORK AND HEDONISM He seldom thinks, that sits at ease, I’ warm an’ cheery room, While at his feet the big coals blaze, O’Geordy’s dreary doom Alexander Barras, ...
( Category: England July 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-04 | Author:Author

( Category: Arts & Literature July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Margarette Lincoln

Defending absent husbands Some seamen’s wives were not just competent domestic managers but called upon to defend, intelligently, their absent husband. Charlotte Whitford, who kept a shop in Back Lane ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-14 | Author:Harrison, Brian;

4. AESTHETIC CORNUCOPIA Fast–growing universities helped to fill the cornucopia of cultural opportunity that enriched British life from the 1950s. University Bookshops, Oxford (UBO) and other consortia set up or ...
( Category: England June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-21 | Author:Jane Austen, Charles Dickens

( Category: Essays June 27,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-05-29 | Author:Richard Hayman [Hayman, Richard]

Spratton (Northampton-shire) possesses a fine late-twelfth-century arcade. The arches are plain and undercut, a transitional stage from the zig-zag decorated Norman arches to simpler linear Gothic arches. West Walton (Norfolk) ...
( Category: History June 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anne Curry

THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR English and French towns were threatened, occasionally sacked, during the Hundred Years War but the full brunt of devastation caused by war was ...
( Category: England June 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Elizabeth Miller [Miller, Elizabeth]

Snagov Monastery, where tradition has it that Vlad is buried; however, the exact location of his remains is unknown (photo by the author) What do we know about Vlad’s personal ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-15 | Author:Phyllis Rose

paterfamilias When he turned twenty-three, Charles Dickens, a young reporter for the Morning Chronicle, threw a birthday party for himself in his rooms in Furnival’s Inn. He had good reason ...
( Category: Authors May 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Michelle Higgs

THE DAILY GROCERY SHOP Without refrigeration or freezers, perishable foodstuffs like milk, butter, eggs and meat cannot be kept fresh for very long. Large country houses have their own ice ...
( Category: England May 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-29 | Author:Gill Rossini

The 1926 Adoption of Children Act As a result of the growing support among adoption societies, politicians and other agencies concerned with child welfare, several attempts were made to guide ...
( Category: Adoption April 24,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-07-27 | Author:Kempe, Margery [Kempe, Margery]

Chapter 65 Our Lord Jesus Christ said to this creature, ‘Daughter, you shall well see when you are in heaven with me that no man is damned unless he is ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-10 | Author:David Starkey

( Category: Europe April 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-11 | Author:David Fathers

A newspaper headline following the disappearance of Lord Lucan. WESTMINSTER: ASSASSINATION, TERRORISM & REGICIDE Total walking distance 0.8km This very short walk through the heart of the British government traces ...
( Category: Running & Jogging April 12,2020 )