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Blood and Roses by Helen Castor
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 )
London: The Autobiography by Lewis Jon E
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 )
The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion, 1217 (General Military) by Brooks Richard
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 )
Edward II: The Chameleon (The English Monarchs Series) by Phillips Seymour
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 )
The Duchess by Amanda Foreman
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-08 | Author:Amanda Foreman [Foreman, Amanda]

( Category: Great Britain August 4,2015 )
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 )
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 birth of feminism: woman as intellect in Renaissance Italy and England by Sarah Gwyneth Ross
epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Sarah Gwyneth Ross [Ross, Sarah Gwyneth]

206 The Household Salon, 1580–1680 Changing Personae Fonte and Marinella also underscore a significant shift in the ways in which women presented themselves. While their humanist predecessors most often emphasized ...
( Category: Renaissance June 13,2015 )
Alison Weir (2010) by Swynford Katherine
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Swynford, Katherine [Katherine, Swynford,]

8 'The Lady of Kettlethorpe' Nearly five years on from the end of their affair, Katherine could perhaps view the prospect of John leaving England for a long period with ...
( Category: England June 12,2015 )
Castles of Steel by Robert K. Massie
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-28 | Author:Robert K. Massie

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 June 11,2015 )
The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-08-15 | Author:Alison Weir

stature she was a formidable woman: highly intelligent, literate, strong-minded, devout and austere in her religious observances. She was the sole heiress of the Beaufort descendants of John of Gaunt ...
( Category: England June 11,2015 )
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It by Arthur Herman
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-15 | Author:Arthur Herman

But the Scots and Scotch Irish laity loved it, and it became the hallmark of Southern—and American—religion from then until the present. It also forged a link between the Presbyterian ...
( Category: Scotland June 11,2015 )

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