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The Forgotten Tudor Women: Margaret Douglas, Mary Howard & Mary Shelton by Sylvia Barbara Soberton
mobi |eng | 2015-02-04 | Author:Sylvia Barbara Soberton

Chapter 12: The King’s pawns Mary Shelton’s feelings about Henry Norris’s tragic death are nowhere recorded, and the absence of her name in the court records for the period of ...
( Category: Great Britain July 11,2016 )
Thomas Cromwell: The Real Wolf Hall (Very Short History Book 7) by Tristan Clark
mobi |eng | 2015-06-20 | Author:Tristan Clark

6. The Succession Anne’s trial and execution were carried out with the help of Catherine’s friends in court. These friends believed that Mary, Catherine’s daughter, would now become a legitimate ...
( Category: Europe July 11,2016 )
Food and Feast in Tudor England by Alison Sim
epub | | 2013-07-10 | Author:Alison Sim

SEVEN TABLEWARE If you had been invited to dinner in the sixteenth century your host’s tableware would have told you far more about him than it would today. More importantly ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 11,2016 )
Anne Boleyn: Temptress, Mistress, Feminist (Very Short History Book 9) by Tristan Clark
mobi |eng | 2015-06-24 | Author:Tristan Clark

6. Married Life, King Henry-Style While Anne threw herself into the public aspects of queenhood, not all aspects of marriage and motherhood were as easy as she’d imagined. Not only ...
( Category: Great Britain July 11,2016 )
Jasper Tudor: Godfather of the Tudor Dynasty by Debra Bayani
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Debra Bayani

The homecoming of Jasper and Henry Tudor was probably not as easy as they had imagined. Essentially, much of it depended on sheer good luck whereby everything had to happen ...
( Category: Great Britain July 11,2016 )
Catherine Carey in a Nutshell by Adrienne Dillard
epub |eng | 2015-10-09 | Author:Adrienne Dillard [Dillard, Adrienne]

Catherine at Henry VIII’s court When an opening became available in the crowded court of the reigning monarch, there was often a scramble for the highly coveted positions. Each time ...
( Category: Great Britain July 11,2016 )
Thomas Cromwell: Master and Servant by Kevin G Hughes
mobi |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Kevin G Hughes

5 Fall from grace As is well-known, Henry married Jane Seymour shortly after Anne Boleyn’s execution. Jane gave Henry the son that he craved but then died shortly after childbirth. ...
( Category: Europe July 11,2016 )
Hitler's Final Push by Danny S. Parker
epub |eng | 2016-01-21 | Author:Danny S. Parker

5. THE FINAL DISTRIBUTION OF FORCES The first draft of the plan for the Ardennes Offensive, which had been submitted to the Führer on 11 Oct 44, and which had ...
( Category: Europe July 10,2016 )
How We Lived Then: History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A by Norman Longmate
epub |eng | 2010-01-26 | Author:Norman Longmate [Longmate, Norman]

The W.V.S. took selected members on tours of paper-mills, where they saw the disastrous effect that a single paper-clip or rubber band could have on a whole consignment of waste ...
( Category: Military July 10,2016 )
Letters from Nuremberg by Christopher Dodd
epub |eng | 2007-09-10 | Author:Christopher Dodd

P.S. Don’t get upset about plumbers or the well—or anything else—do the best you can under the circumstances. November 5, 1945 Nürnberg, Germany Grace, my dearest one, The pressure is ...
( Category: World July 9,2016 )
Heyday by Ben Wilson
epub |eng | 2016-03-16 | Author:Ben Wilson

The Great Exhibition by J. McNeven, 1851, signaled the outrageous self-confidence of the 1850s. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) Tea and Damper by Alfred Martin Ebsworth, 1883. The rough, tough ...
( Category: Great Britain July 9,2016 )
The Road to Terror by J. Arch Getty
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:J. Arch Getty [Getty, J. Arch]

Source: Malenkov speech to February–March plenum, Voprosy istorii, no. 10, 1995, 7–8. The Politburo was at pains to show that Sheboldaev and Postyshev were not to be considered enemies themselves; ...
( Category: European July 9,2016 )
Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949 by David Cesarani
epub |eng | 2016-01-27 | Author:David Cesarani [Cesarani, David]

The war economy and the expansion of Auschwitz The concentration camp outside the Polish town of Oswieçim in Upper Silesia, renamed Auschwitz following the German conquest of Poland, became a ...
( Category: Holocaust July 9,2016 )
The Wars of the Roses: The Key Players in the Struggle for Supremacy by Matthew Lewis
epub |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:Matthew Lewis [Lewis, Matthew]

13 Warwick’s Pride On 20 March 1470, Lord Berkeley of Berkeley Castle took an army into the field against Lord Lisle of Wooton at Nibley Green in Gloucestershire. The two ...
( Category: England July 9,2016 )
Dreams of a Great Small Nation by Kevin J McNamara
epub |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Kevin J McNamara

The Seizure of Siberia THE SAME DAY that Trotsky issued his threatening order, the legionnaires attacked. Their first priority was to link all the legionnaires in a single chain—especially those ...
( Category: General July 4,2016 )

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