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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World by Patrick J. Buchanan
mobi |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Patrick J. Buchanan

( Category: England June 11,2015 )
Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 / Life, Letters to 1535
epub |eng | 2015-05-29 | Author:Roger Bigelow Merriman [Merriman, Roger Bigelow]

* * * APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XIII I THE REPORT OF THE LUTHERAN AMBASSADORS TO ENGLAND IN APRIL AND MAY, 1539, ENTITLED. ‘Summarie bericht vnd verzeichnisz der gepflogen handelunge in ...
( Category: England May 31,2015 )
A Great and Monstrous Thing by Jerry White
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jerry White [White, Jerry]

Tainting from Beggars’: The Business of Pictures Art was one of the great industries of eighteenth-century London. The art took many forms and the artists came in many guises, but ...
( Category: England May 28,2015 )
Downstream by Caitlin Davies
epub |eng | | Author:Caitlin Davies

Thomas Burgess was one of seven swimmers, including Annette Kellerman, who in August 1905 attempted to swim the Channel. In 1911 he became the second person to succeed after Captain ...
( Category: England May 25,2015 )
The Sixties by Jenny Diski
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:Jenny Diski [Diski, Jenny]

There were other versions of changing the world. For readers of Marcuse, even such as Tariq Ali, for example: . . . the long march did not mean “boring from ...
( Category: England May 25,2015 )
The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-06 | Author:Judith Flanders

Adelaide Bartlett had a background that sounds suspiciously like that of a penny-dreadful heroine. Some contemporary crime historians have suggested that she was the illegitimate daughter of a son of ...
( Category: England April 5,2015 )
Unsolved London Murders by Jonathan Oates
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-19 | Author:Jonathan Oates

CHAPTER 12 Did Frederick Field Kill Annie Upchurch? 1931 There was no doubt that this case was going to be a bit of a stinker. As Spilsbury’s first biographer noted, ...
( Category: England April 5,2015 )
The Victorian City by Judith Flanders
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Judith Flanders

A City chophouse, fitted out with standard booth-style seating, or ‘boxes’, as they were known. The waiter looks anxious to serve: he was not an employee, but instead he paid ...
( Category: England April 5,2015 )
My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' Family Story by Helen Edwards & Jenny Lee Smith
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Helen Edwards & Jenny Lee Smith [Edwards, Helen & Smith, Jenny Lee]

CHAPTER 21 Helen The Gun Chase ‘I’m pregnant,’ I grinned. I was bubbling over with excitement. ‘That’s wonderful.’ Simon gave me a huge hug. ‘Hey, not so tight,’ I teased ...
( Category: England April 2,2015 )
Winter King by Thomas Penn
epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Thomas Penn [Penn, Thomas]

10 New Heaven, New Earth In autumn 1504 Desiderius Erasmus was in Paris; as usual, he was broke. News reached him from England, where his friend John Colet, the ascetic ...
( Category: England March 27,2015 )
Stephen & Matilda: The Civil War of 1139-53 by Bradbury Jim
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Bradbury, Jim [Bradbury, Jim]

THE ROUT OF WINCHESTER There were two castles in Winchester: the royal castle, which Matilda had already claimed, and the bishop’s own stronghold, Wolvesey Castle, which has recently been reopened ...
( Category: England March 25,2015 )
Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp through the Extramarital Adventures that Rocked the British Monarchy by Leslie Carroll
epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]

JAMES II OF ENGLAND/JAMES VII OF SCOTLAND and Anne Hyde 1637-1671 The prodigiously buxom and flirtatious Anne Hyde was the daughter of Edward Hyde, a Wiltshire lawyer who turned to ...
( Category: England March 22,2015 )
Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey through Nine Centuries of Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire by Leslie Carroll
epub |eng | 2010-01-30 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]

Catherine placed this letter in a cabinet in her study and locked it away. There it remained throughout her reign, discovered after her death by the new emperor, her son, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 22,2015 )
Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII by Sarah-Beth Watkins
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Sarah-Beth Watkins [Watkins, Sarah-Beth]

Seen in context, Hale was blaming Mr Skidmore (or Scudamore) for suggesting that Henry Carey was the King’s son. It was just one of many libellous statements that Hale made, ...
( Category: England March 22,2015 )
The Great Silence by Juliet Nicolson
epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Juliet Nicolson

10 Release Early Winter 1919 The skies were filling with spectacular and record-breaking machines. Alcock and Brown’s recent crossing of the Atlantic by air in June was still on everyone’s ...
( Category: England March 21,2015 )

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