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The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow
epub |eng | 2010-07-26 | Author:Jenny Uglow [Jenny Uglow]

The more Darwin thought upon this, the more convinced he became. * Flowers, plants and their families, however, were different from rocks, gases, engines. They had always been part of ...
( Category: Great Britain July 27,2015 )
The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home by Natalie Livingstone
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-07-01 | Author:Natalie Livingstone [Livingstone, Natalie]

Chapter 6 CRISIS IN THE BEDCHAMBER ‘ALL ALL MY happiness gone!’ Victoria mourned in her journal. ‘That happy peaceful life destroyed!’1 In the spring of 1839, the young queen faced ...
( Category: England July 27,2015 )
The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser
epub | | 2011-01-23 | Author:George MacDonald Fraser

XXVI Armstrongs in action In the circumstances, it was not surprising that the Armstrongs began to assume the proportions of a national menace to England, and foremost among them was ...
( Category: England July 22,2015 )
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant by Borman Tracy
mobi |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Borman, Tracy [Borman, Tracy]

CHAPTER 12 ‘The Lady in the Tower’ According to Chapuys, what had made Cromwell resolve upon Anne’s destruction was not the open declaration of war which the Passion Sunday sermon ...
( Category: Great Britain July 21,2015 )
Underground To Everywhere by Stephen Halliday
epub | | 2013-07-07 | Author:Stephen Halliday

HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB At the time when Yerkes was planning the construction of the Hampstead Tube to Golders Green,10 agricultural land in the vicinity of the proposed railway began to ...
( Category: History July 20,2015 )
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South by Laura Lee Hope
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Laura Lee Hope [Hope, Laura Lee]

* * * CHAPTER XV LEFT ALONE Some thought of where the train might be taking them must have come into the minds of Bunny and Sue for, after they ...
( Category: England July 19,2015 )
Bunny Brown And His Sister Sue by Laura Lee Hope
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Laura Lee Hope [Hope, Laura Lee]

"You could bring him a lot of little puppy cakes, and they would be the same as one big dog-biscuit, maybe," said Sue. "No, I'll bring him a regular cake, ...
( Category: England July 19,2015 )
She-Wolves by Helen Castor
epub |eng | 2010-07-18 | Author:Helen Castor [Helen Castor]

2 Dearest and Most Powerful ‘Our King Edward has now reigned six full years’, the author of the Vita wrote in 1313, ‘and has till now achieved nothing praiseworthy or ...
( Category: England July 19,2015 )
The Extreme Centre by Tariq Ali
epub |eng | | Author:Tariq Ali

Which Europe could they be looking at? This is a view from inside the bubble. Even in Germany, the strongest of the EU states, there is growing unease with the ...
( Category: Democracy July 19,2015 )
The Birth of Modern Britain by Francis Pryor
epub |eng | | Author:Francis Pryor

I suppose the most overquoted phrase associated with the idea of the Industrial Revolution has to be William Blake’s ‘dark Satanic mills’. Laying aside blight to the life of countless ...
( Category: Great Britain July 19,2015 )
The Making of the British Landscape How by Francis Pryor
epub |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:Francis Pryor [Pryor, Francis]

SPAS AND RESORTS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY I noted at the start of this chapter that resorts and spa towns played an important part in the development of Britain as ...
( Category: Great Britain July 19,2015 )
Scotch by Lockhart Robert Bruce
epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Lockhart, Robert Bruce

CHAPTER 8 The Walkers My walk should be a jig. FOR OUR next whisky magnate we must leave Perthshire and go to Ayrshire. It is a county of soft climate ...
( Category: Spirits July 16,2015 )
London Labour and the London Poor (Oxford World’s Classics) by Henry Mayhew
epub |eng | 2010-07-13 | Author:Henry Mayhew

VOLUME III THE LONDON STREET-FOLK (CONCLUDED) DESTROYERS OF VERMIN The Rat-Killer IN ‘the Brill’, or rather in Brill-place, Somers’-town, there is a variety of courts branching out into Chapel-street, and ...
( Category: Great Britain July 14,2015 )
A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors by Anthony Blond
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Anthony Blond [Blond, Anthony]

CLAUDIUS Claudius had more than one reason for keeping out of the way when he heard that his nephew, the Emperor Caligula, had been assassinated, just after one o’clock on ...
( Category: Great Britain June 21,2015 )
Spies and Commissars by Service Robert
epub |eng | 2011-11-03 | Author:Service, Robert [Service, Robert]

Dukes travelled about Russia under the alias of artillery commander V. Piotrovski.56 The runaway pianist became a Red Army officer who filed regular reports to London from whatever place he ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union June 20,2015 )

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