Great Britain
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Helen Castor [Helen Castor]

They were inept with money, he said, whether because they were incompetent at collecting it or foolish in spending it (‘either you gather shrewdly or else you spend lewdly’).35 Not ...
( Category: England September 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-29 | Author:David I. Woodland

Much is made about the supposed antagonism that exists between the uniform and CID branches. To some extent this is understandable and their two functions are so different; the one ...
( Category: Scotland August 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Lewis, Jon E. [Lewis, Jon E.]

It contains 1,400 houses, inhabited by 2,795 families, comprising a population of 12,000. The space within which this large amount of population are living is less than 400 yards square, ...
( Category: England August 31,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Brooks, Richard [Brooks, Richard]

The younger Marshal’s soldiers were dragged from the cathedral, where they sought sanctuary, but he escaped, ‘heeding his father’s warning by flight, as it is said’ (ibid.). Worcester lay deep ...
( Category: England August 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:Douglas Boyd

Was this Henry’s grand design? 1. Young Henry and Marguerite. 2. Princess Matilda and Henry of Saxony. 3. Re-attachment of Toulouse/Prince John and Alix de Maurienne/the Crown of Lombardy. 4. ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Peter Armstrong [Armstrong, Peter]

Note: I have calculated the numbers of the Scottish army from the minimum number of men that would be needed to cover half a mile of front, allowing each a ...
( Category: Scotland August 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Reese, Peter

Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke (d 1324) Valence’s biographer, J R S Phillips, was critical of all the English nobles who served under Edward II at this time but, ...
( Category: Great Britain August 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-07 | Author:Phillips, Seymour [Phillips, Seymour]

PART TWO THE RISE AND RISE OF A NEW FAVOURITE The Younger Despenser was not a new figure on the political scene. The prominence of his father, Hugh Despenser the ...
( Category: England August 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edward Cowan

9 The English Cult of Wallace and the Blending of Nineteenth-Century Britain Colin Kidd In today’s Scotland most invocations of the name of William Wallace are directed towards nationalist ends ...
( Category: Scotland August 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Lisa Hilton [Hilton, Lisa]

CHAPTER 12 PHILIPPA OF HAINAULT ‘Good angel of Edward and of England’ Philippa of Hainault’s queenship had a difficult beginning. Her arrival in London in December 1327 was marred by ...
( Category: Women in History August 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Juliet Barker [Barker, Juliet]

The official form and language used here tends to obscure what a revolutionary document this is: no less than the complete abolition of villeinage, not just on the king’s own ...
( Category: Great Britain August 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:McNamee, Colm [McNamee, Colm]

The English spent the night at Falkirk, and on the Sunday 23 June ‘after dinner’ they came within sight of the Torwood. They were anxious to reach Stirling Castle either ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-05 | Author:Thomas Macaulay

[Meanwhile, in Dublin, James’s Irish Parliament was passing acts of indiscriminate confiscation and attainder against English settlers and Protestants. In consequence of these acts, which revealed James as the tool ...
( Category: Great Britain August 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-18 | Author:Lethbridge, Lucy [Lethbridge, Lucy]

PART IV Outer Show and Inner Life Chapter 16 ‘A Vast Machine That Has Forgotten How to Stop Working’ ‘The large-scale private paradise is already obsolescent,’ was the opinion of ...
( Category: Great Britain August 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-08 | Author:Amanda Foreman [Foreman, Amanda]

( Category: Great Britain August 4,2015 )