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Fires of Faith by Eamon Duffy
epub |eng | | Author:Eamon Duffy

In Lincoln diocese Thomas More, a twenty-four-year-old serving man in Leicester had been reported within days of the commencement of the visitation for irreverent remarks made to a neighbour about ...
( Category: Europe June 13,2023 )
The Middle Kingdoms by Martyn Rady;
epub |eng | 2023-05-02 | Author:Martyn Rady; [Rady, Martyn]

At the start, I remained in doubt whether it was a human being or a mechanical figure, so very much was everything human in it erased… for everything passionate and ...
( Category: Sweden June 13,2023 )
Sacred Plunder by Perry David M
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Perry, David M.

PART III _______________________________________ OUTCOMES 5 ____________________________ Translatio and Venice Before and After 1204 The previous four chapters of this book have examined the translatio narratives of the Fourth Crusade in ...
( Category: Italy June 13,2023 )
The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World by Paul Strathern
epub |eng | 2023-05-02 | Author:Paul Strathern

I. Highly popular in the nineteenth century, this society followed a religion whose secret masters lived in remote locations throughout the world, but mainly in Tibet. These superhuman figures possessed ...
( Category: Europe June 13,2023 )
The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 by Scott McDermott
pdf |en | | Author: Scott McDermott

( Category: Stuart Era (1603-1714) June 13,2023 )
London by Jack Chesher
epub |eng | 2023-06-15 | Author:Jack Chesher

Got the Hump What: The camels of Eastcheap Where: 20 Eastcheap, EC3M 1EB Walk along Eastcheap and you will come across a rather unusual sight: three camels being led across ...
( Category: Europe June 13,2023 )
Scotland's Forgotten Past by Alistair Moffat
epub |eng | 2023-06-15 | Author:Alistair Moffat

19 17007 In the first half of the 18th century, two English spies helped turn Scotland’s history in a different direction. In October, 1706, Daniel Defoe found lodgings on the ...
( Category: Scotland June 13,2023 )
The Bletchley Park Codebreakers in Their Own Words by Joel Greenberg
epub |eng | 2022-12-31 | Author:Joel Greenberg

Max Newman Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman was born on 7 February 1897 in London. He attended the City of London School and from there he gained a scholarship to St ...
( Category: 20th Century June 13,2023 )
London, a Fourteenth-Century City and its People by Kathryn Warner
epub |eng | 2022-08-30 | Author:Kathryn Warner

Women There is no doubt that English law of the fourteenth century favoured men. Inheritance law regarding lands which were held directly from the king followed the system of primogeniture: ...
( Category: Europe June 13,2023 )
A Murderous Midsummer by Mark Stoyle
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Stoyle

III According to Hooker, Russell’s decision ‘nowe to loose no more time, but to give the adventure upon the enemie’ was prompted, first, by the arrival of the long-awaited reinforcements ...
( Category: England June 13,2023 )
Magnificent Rebel by Anne de Courcy
epub |eng | | Author:Anne de Courcy

* * * In the late autumn Nancy returned to England. Her father had become ill and she went to his home, Haycock House, a large and gloomy building, to ...
( Category: Europe June 13,2023 )
Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14 by Ralph Darlington;
epub |eng | | Author:Ralph Darlington;

George Dangerfield considered it was as though ‘their strike [was] some holiday of the soul, long overdue’.95 The strikers immediately turned to the NFWW for assistance and both Mary Macarthur ...
( Category: Wales June 13,2023 )
The Great Famine by William Chester Jordan
epub |eng | 1996-06-15 | Author:William Chester Jordan

England Already in 1315 the English under Edward II attempted by parliamentary action to impose price controls on livestock. There has been some hesitation among historians to consider this action ...
( Category: England June 13,2023 )
The Punishment of Pirates by Matthew Norton;
epub |eng | 2022-12-21 | Author:Matthew Norton; [Norton, Matthew]

full power and authority, according to the course of the admiralty, to issue warrants for bringing any persons accused of piracy or robbery, before them to be tried, heard, and ...
( Category: Europe June 13,2023 )
English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable by Lacey Baldwin Smith
epub |eng | 2007-06-15 | Author:Lacey Baldwin Smith

The Angry Path to Political Democracy (1832–1913) The current of political change became a torrent when, first in 1867, the electorate was doubled (1.3 to 2.4 million) by enfranchising urban ...
( Category: United Kingdom June 13,2023 )

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