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A People's History of Scotland by Chris Bambery
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Chris Bambery

ELEVEN The Great Depression: Suffering and Resistance Another day thus upon the mountain And great Scotland under the doom of beasts Her thousands of poor exploited Beguiled to a laughing ...
( Category: European March 4,2015 )
There is No Alternative by Claire Berlinski
epub |eng | 2012-02-02 | Author:Claire Berlinski

I offered Scargill the chance to reply to Kinnock’s characterization of him, but he didn’t take me up on it. Linda Sheridan, however, held forth with gusto. Dear Claire I ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too by Claire Berlinski
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Claire Berlinski

THE LOSS OF A VISION Something else about Italy immediately strikes the visitor as odd. Again take Perugia: The city center is an ancient, melancholy maze of arched caverns and ...
( Category: European March 4,2015 )
Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:David Remnick [Remnick, David]

After the coup, a couple of workers play dominoes at a foundry that used to make busts of Lenin. The factory now operates for the tourist industry. (Reuters/Bettmann) PART III ...
( Category: European March 4,2015 )
The Greatest Traitor by Mortimer Ian
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-05 | Author:Mortimer, Ian [Mortimer, Ian]

* On the day of the coronation the Scots had launched an exploratory raid on Norham Castle. They had been beaten back, but in March the court was informed by ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
Everything is Wonderful by Sigrid Rausing
epub, mobi |ara, eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Sigrid Rausing

( Category: Travel March 4,2015 )
Story of England by Wood Michael
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Wood, Michael [Wood, Michael]

Man be ware and be no fool; Thinke upon the ax, and of the stool! The revolt had unleashed savage class antagonisms and exposed deep fissures between the rulers and ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
A History of Britain - Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Simon Schama [Schama, Simon]

The Indian Mutiny, 1857–8. On 30 June an attempted counter-attack under Sir Henry’s command was ambushed disastrously at Chinhat by rebel troops led by, among others, the fighting Maulvi, Ahmadullah ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World by Gooden Philip
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Gooden, Philip [Gooden, Philip]

These, and countless others, were the books taken up by the expanding middle classes. The flourishing printing presses, which fed the appetite for reading by turning out not only novels ...
( Category: Linguistics March 4,2015 )
In Search of England by Michael Wood
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-09 | Author:Michael Wood

Mounted strength: a numberless host of cavalry. Eventually the voice of protest roused the king; Not to let himself be branded thus: That his people had meekly given in to ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
The Wreckers by Bella Bathurst
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bella Bathurst [Bathurst, Bella]

I regret to have to report that matters relating to wreck and salvage in those islands [the Hebrides], especially in South Uist and Barra, are as unsatisfactory as they can ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
The Story of Britain by Rebecca Fraser
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-11-17 | Author:Rebecca Fraser [Fraser, Rebecca]

George II (1727–1760) In most ways George II was a far nicer man than his father; like George I he was a brave soldier, but taller and better looking. He ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
Great Tales From English History: Cheddar Man to DNA by Robert Lacey
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Robert Lacey

ROUNDHEADS V. CAVALIERS 1642–8 LADY MARY BANKES WAS A FORMIDABLE WOMAN, THE mother of fourteen children. When the Civil War broke out in August 1642 it fell to her to ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens by Mike Ashley
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mike Ashley

NC. JORVIK (YORK) Jorvik, the Danish kingdom of York, was essentially the same as the old Saxon kingdom of Deira in Northumbria (see page 269). From 910 the kingdom was ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
Civil War: The History of England Volume III (History of England Vol 3) by Ackroyd Peter
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Ackroyd, Peter [Ackroyd, Peter]

The syntax might be faulty, but the fervour is evident. When they were not at prayer they debated predestination, election, justification and reprobation. They also discussed more political affairs. Ought ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )

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