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Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs): The Quest for Fame by John Guy
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-04 | Author:John Guy [Guy, John]

5 A Second Solomon Like King Solomon, the most famous of the Old Testament patriarchs, who was said to have sat in majesty on an ivory throne and who completed ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )
Sister Queens by Julia Fox
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Julia Fox [Fox, Julia]

Indeed he would. On coming of age in January 1515, he had changed the personnel of his council and his household, and while he retained his love for his aunt ...
( Category: Spain & Portugal March 3,2015 )
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor by Eamon Duffy
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-12-12 | Author:Eamon Duffy

CHAPTER 7 The Battle for Hearts and Minds John Foxe's partisan artistry and the paucity of other sources has made it hard for the historian to assess the actual impact ...
( Category: Christianity March 3,2015 )
Treason In Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia by Smith Lacey Baldwin
epub |eng | 2011-04-29 | Author:Smith, Lacey Baldwin [Smith, Lacey Baldwin]

Her excuse was, first, she knew not of my sister’s coming; and, besides the jealousy that the world would conceive, that all her kindness to my sister was done for ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )
Queen of the Conqueror by Tracy Joanne Borman
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Tracy Joanne Borman [Borman, Tracy]

Baudri goes on to describe “a wonderful tapestry” that surrounded Adela’s bed. This sounds remarkably similar to the Bayeux Tapestry, for it included scenes depicting the comet, the Norman council ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )
Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir

So how did Darnley die? The plot to kill him was masterminded by Maitland and Moray, Maitland being the active partner, Moray the passive one but the ultimate beneficiary. Their ...
( Category: Scotland March 3,2015 )
Danger to Elizabeth: 2 (Elizabethan Quartet 2) by Alison Plowden
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-30 | Author:Alison Plowden [Plowden, Alison]

( Category: England February 15,2015 )
Sir Francis Drake by John Sugden
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:John Sugden [Sugden, John]

( Category: Great Britain February 15,2015 )
The Plague and The Fire by Leasor James
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Leasor, James [Leasor, James]

1. This was no exaggeration; a London merchant, writing to a rich client on August 17th, remarked that not one merchant in a hundred was left in London. CHAPTER EIGHT ...
( Category: England February 15,2015 )
Pepys's London: Everyday Life in London 1650-1703 by Porter Stephen
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:Porter, Stephen [Porter, Stephen]

7 A Wasp’s Nest Lingering resentment over the events of the Civil War and regicide was only one of the tensions that troubled relations between the citizens and the court. ...
( Category: England February 15,2015 )
Witchfinders by Gaskill Malcolm
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-23 | Author:Gaskill, Malcolm [Gaskill, Malcolm]

Women hanged, women grieving, and others looking on from the gaol. To the left two sergeants and a bellman oversee proceedings, and to the right a witchfinder is paid his ...
( Category: England February 15,2015 )
Stuart Britain: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by John Morrill
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-08-09 | Author:John Morrill

Parliament’s Advantages The king had several initial advantages – the support of personally wealthy men, a naturally unified command structure emanating from the royal person, and a simpler military objective ...
( Category: England February 15,2015 )
Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720 by Harris Tim
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-25 | Author:Harris, Tim [Harris, Tim]

ABDICATION OR DESERTION? THE DEPOSING OF KING JAMES In his letter to the Convention, read on 22 January, the opening day of the session, William told those assembled that he ...
( Category: England February 15,2015 )
The Making of the Fittest by Sean B. Carroll
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-31 | Author:Sean B. Carroll [Carroll, Sean B.]

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( Category: England February 15,2015 )
A Needle in the Right Hand of God by R. Howard Bloch
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:R. Howard Bloch [Bloch, R. Howard]

Fragment of textile from Oseberg, Norway, buried ca. A.D. 950 © MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, NORWAY Unlike the Bayeux Tapestry, the Oseberg textile contains no writing and ...
( Category: England February 15,2015 )

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