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Serving Victoria by Kate Hubbard
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kate Hubbard [Hubbard, Kate]

CHAPTER 15 Henry Ponsonby: Private Secretary Whether due to the Brown effect or simply the passage of time, by the late 1860s the worst of the Queen’s grief had passed. ...
( Category: Great Britain April 14,2016 )
A Pauper's History of England by Peter Stubley
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Peter Stubley

Peasants harvesting wheat with reaping-hooks, on a calendar page for August in the Queen Mary Psalter, c.1310. (British Library Illuminated Manuscripts Collection) Peasants driving oxen and bulls, on a calendar ...
( Category: England April 10,2016 )
Fashion in the Time of William Shakespeare by Sarah Downing
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Downing

A German Courtier, c. 1580. As Shakespeare joked in Much Ado about Nothing, he is ‘… a German from the waist downward, all slops …’. He is also wearing his ...
( Category: Fashion Design April 10,2016 )
Garden Cities by Sarah Rutherford
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Rutherford

An idealised interior, designed by Barry Parker for his brother Stanley, in Letchworth Garden City, 102 Wilbury Road. Arts and Crafts and historicist styles were strong themes, as epitomised in ...
( Category: England April 8,2016 )
The Worm Forgives the Plough by John Stewart Collis
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-04 | Author:John Stewart Collis [John Stewart Collis]

BOOK TWO DOWN TO EARTH Reading through this book of mine, and subsequent ones of the same kind, I see that my approach has the merit of being highly unoriginal. ...
( Category: England March 14,2016 )
One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens
epub |eng | | Author:Monica Dickens

Chapter Ten AFTER EASTER THE house party began to break up, and by the end of the holidays everybody except a few insignificant female relations and one or two of ...
( Category: England March 14,2016 )
Elizabeth's London by Liza Picard
epub |eng | 2016-03-09 | Author:Liza Picard

Marriage Marriage involved a change of status. The woman moved from the power and responsibilty of her father, to that of her husband. The only women who were not treated ...
( Category: England March 11,2016 )
Underworld London by Catharine Arnold
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Catharine Arnold [Arnold, Catharine]

Pentonville had been designed as a ‘convict academy’ where specially selected prisoners would undergo a period of moral instruction before transportation; they would also learn a trade that would provide ...
( Category: England February 22,2016 )
A Gull on the Roof by Derek Tangye
epub |eng | | Author:Derek Tangye

8 We had planted the violet runners in June – six thousand Governor Herrick in the top half of the field, the cemetery field where we had cropped potatoes; and ...
( Category: England February 15,2016 )
Sissinghurst by Vita Sackville-West
epub |eng | | Author:Vita Sackville-West

Philadelphus coronarius. Starting with philadelphus, its name ‘seems to suit it nicely, meaning brotherly or sisterly love in Greek, suggesting a purity of love distinct from any sexual passion. ‘Yet ...
( Category: England February 15,2016 )
Eleanor The Secret Queen: The Woman who put Richard III on the Throne by John Ashdown-Hill
epub |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill [Ashdown-Hill, John]

17 Death The dowager Countess of Shrewsbury enjoyed Edward IV’s generosity for less than two years, for she died on Sunday 14 June 1467, at the age of 63, and ...
( Category: Great Britain January 20,2016 )
The Men of the North by Tim Clarkson
epub |eng | 2016-01-10 | Author:Tim Clarkson [Tim Clarkson]

Edwin, Neithon and Rhun The sources shed little light on the North Britons during Edwin’s reign. On the Clyde the reign of Rhydderch Hael ended with his death in the ...
( Category: Scotland January 12,2016 )
The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Blair John
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-08-09 | Author:Blair, John [Blair, John]

These factors help to explain why raiders descended in such numbers on European countries from the 850s onwards, and why casual plundering gave way to a policy of conquest and ...
( Category: England December 28,2015 )
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie
epub |eng | 2015-12-24 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

CHAPTER 24 The Minefields The whole fourteen-mile length of the Straits from the entrance at Cape Helles up to the Narrows at Chanak was within range of different types of ...
( Category: England December 26,2015 )
The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction by Guy John
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-08-10 | Author:Guy, John [Guy, John]

The Court of Philip and Mary Philip was accorded his own royal household. The queen’s household was located in what, during her father’s and brother’s reigns, was the part of ...
( Category: Great Britain December 14,2015 )

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