Europe
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-10 | Author:Goodwin, George [Goodwin, George]

In the Midlands, potential recruitment was more balanced. Certainly, the Queen had established herself in the late 1450s as a major power in the region. She had then been able ...
( Category: England September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Michael Hicks [Hicks, Michael]

CHAPTER FIVE Her Husband’s Wife 1475–83 WHAT ARE DUCHESSES FOR? The Apostle Paul wrote that marriage was a means of carnal satisfaction without sin. Sex was certainly expected of their ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-21 | Author:Weightman, Christine [Weightman, Christine]

CHAPTER 6 ‘This Diabolicall Duches’ ‘LYKE A DOGGE REVERTYNGE TO HER OLDE VOMYTE.’ ‘Once more’, wrote Jean Molinet, ‘the house of York has been left wretched and deserted by Good ...
( Category: England September 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:Hancock, Peter A. [Hancock, Peter A.]

Ramsay is even terser on this matter and simply states, ‘de Comines’ assertions that the troth of Edward and Eleanor had been received by the Bishop of Bath was doubtless ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Ashdown-Hill, John [Ashdown-Hill, John]

Some historians have chosen to interpret all this as proof positive that the Duchess of Bedford had never been guilty of sorcery. Such an interpretation is extremely naïve. It has ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-19 | Author:Lewis, Matthew [Lewis, Matthew]

The Third Period Insurgence The third period of conflict was brief and demonstrated both the dominance of the Yorkist King Edward and the desperation of his Lancastrian opponents. In April ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Santiuste, David [Santiuste, David]

Perhaps it is true that Edward did not respect Warwick’s abilities as a commander, although Chastelain’s comments may be derived from Edward’s bravado at the Burgundian court in the following ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Graves, Robert [Graves, Robert]

And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. And under the ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 15,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Bill Bryson

LEGACIES Bragg dedicated his last years to restoring the RI, which had gone through a fallow period, to the glory days of Faraday or indeed his own father. Apart from ...
( Category: England September 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 1972-09-14 | Author:Tom Stoppard

ACT TWO The Bedroom is blacked out, but music still comes from it—presumably the next track on the album.* Only a minute or two have passed. BONES appears from the ...
( Category: Playwriting September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Alford, Stephen [Alford, Stephen]

13 Alias Cornelys In the story of Mary Queen of Scots’s nineteen-year captivity in England no chapter is more extraordinary than the Babington Plot and no conspiracy more tangled. It ...
( Category: England September 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:Cooper, John [Cooper, John]

Reading this letter in context, it almost rings true. The Elizabethan age praised those willing to face peril in the pursuit of fame. Berden’s work was undoubtedly dangerous, and by ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Hallie Rubenhold [Rubenhold, Hallie]

… Lady Worsley used to come to the cold bath near Maidstone to bathe, and that she [Marriott] used to attend her; that Sir Richard and Mr Bissett [sic] were ...
( Category: Great Britain September 10,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:Hallie Rubenhold

( Category: Great Britain September 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-17 | Author:Jay P. Dolan

Workingmen, shun strong drink as you would a scorpion. It debases, it weakens, it ruins you . . . The saloonkeeper may be your personal friend, even your relative, but ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies September 10,2014 )