epub |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Kyra Cornelius Kramer [Kramer, Kyra Cornelius]

Given the vast number of Henry’s symptoms, how is it possible to determine which might have been caused by McLeod’s syndrome? Complicating the diagnosis is the fact that people did ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-09 | Author:Saul David

9 The Delicate Investigation The advent of the Fox-Grenville government presented the Prince with the opportunity to settle a few scores; not least with his estranged wife, Princess Caroline, whose ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Elizabeth Norton

PART III LATER MEDIEVAL & TUDOR QUEENS WITCHCRAFT, WAR & AMBITION 12 Later Medieval & Tudor Queens In 1399, Henry Bolingbroke usurped the throne from his cousin Richard II, ushering ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2012-12-16 | Author:Davenport-Hines, Richard [Davenport-Hines, Richard]

EIGHT Spies Harold Macmillan seldom lost his temper publicly. He did so, however, at an Oxford dinner of 1981 held in honour of Hugh Trevor-Roper. Sir Michael Howard, one of ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Anne de Courcy

14 ‘Where every Jack has someone else’s Jill’ The Hills The hill stations – the small towns and stations where the altitude gave welcome coolness in the summer months – ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

* W. Armstrong Davison, in The Casket Letters, advances the further theory that Darnley was already suffering from syphilis when Queen Mary nursed him, apparently for measles, in April 1565. ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Jackson, Ashley [Jackson, Ashley]

Chapter 4 Rise and fall The British Empire grew in stages over the course of many centuries: from ‘internal colonization’ within the British Isles in the Middle Ages to seventeenth-century ...

epub, mobi, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Caroline Elkins [Elkins, Caroline]

No amount of pleading would arouse the sympathy of the headman and his Home Guards to agree to allow the poor woman to go to the farm. Even if her ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

If Irwin and his policemen thought Gandhi’s arrest might end their troubles, as it had done in 1922, they were sorely mistaken. Noncooperation intensified over the next ten months. The ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-06-07 | Author:Robert Macfarlane [Macfarlane, Robert]

11 Roots On pilgrimage — ‘Bees of the Invisible’ — The Rule of Resonance — The Library of the Forest — A demonstration of dominion — The Mask of Henry ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Ron Lock

Jubilant Boers wade the Tugela to carry off the abandoned British guns. (With the Flag to Pretoria) A Boer ‘Long Tom’, drawn by oxen, on the way to besiege Ladysmith. ...

epub |eng | 2007-07-26 | Author:Nigel Slater [ Slater, Nigel]

Pontefract Cakes Not in fact a cake, but a flat disc, shiny and black as a top hat, flavoured with liquorice and aniseed. According to Laura Mason and Catherine Brown ...

mobi, epub | | | Author:Ben Macintyre

See Notes on Chapter 11 12 The Robber Barons When did Aileen Philby, the former store detective, uncover the clues that proved her husband, the Foreign Office high-flier, the doting ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Len Deighton [Deighton, Len]

17 July This fact was demonstrated on a miserable day of rain and cloud when twelve Spitfires of 64 Squadron flying out of Kenley were 'bounced' off Beachy Head. The ...

mobi |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Eddleston, John J [Eddleston, John J]

57 – The last woman executed in public was Frances Kidder, hanged at Maidstone on April 2nd, 1868. 58 – Most people believe that the last man executed in public ...