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King Rufus by Emma Mason
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Emma Mason

NOTES 1 On the terrain, see W.E. Kapelle, The Norman Conquest of the North. The Region and its Transformation 1000–1135 (Croom Helm, London, 1979), pp.6-9. 2 A.P. Smyth, Warlords and ...
( Category: England February 13,2015 )
Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:William Manchester

FOUR VORTEX ON the Saturday before Parliament’s Munich debate, Winston was at Chartwell, vigorously slapping bricks into place and awaiting a visitor, a twenty-six-year-old BBC producer, unknown then but destined ...
( Category: Great Britain February 13,2015 )
The People of the Abyss
mobi |eng | 1999-03-01 | Author:Jack London

( Category: Communism & Socialism February 9,2015 )
The Shakespeare Thefts by Eric Rasmussen
epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Eric Rasmussen

(The Drayton mentioned here was Michael Drayton, a friend of Shakespeare’s; John Ward, an early vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon, is the source for the anecdotal story of Shakespeare’s death: “Shakespear, Drayton ...
( Category: Shakespeare January 29,2015 )
Cavalier by Worsley Lucy
epub |eng | 2008-12-20 | Author:Worsley, Lucy [Worsley, Lucy]

The two armies prepare for battle at Marston Moor They are drawn up on Marston Hill, beyond the road and ditch running east-west between the villages of Long Marston and ...
( Category: England January 29,2015 )
The Gunpowder Plot (History/16th/17th Century History)
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Haynes, Alan [Haynes, Alan]

EIGHT After Midnight It soon proved impossible to withhold news of the discovery and arrest, and by five o’clock on Tuesday morning Thomas Winter was alerted by the younger of ...
( Category: England January 29,2015 )
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr by Linda Porter
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Linda Porter [Porter, Linda]

At first glance, this seems a curiously stilted effort. It is, nevertheless, very revealing, once the allowances for etiquette, formality of address and Elizabeth’s still imperfect grasp of the Italian ...
( Category: Great Britain January 29,2015 )
ELIZABETH AND ESSEX: a tragic history by Strachey Lytton
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-07 | Author:Strachey, Lytton [Strachey, Lytton]

With some unwillingness she allowed the fleet to make another attack upon Spain. But it was now too weak to effect a landing at Ferrol; it must do no more ...
( Category: England January 29,2015 )
The English by Jeremy Paxman
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Jeremy Paxman

By preserving the ruins, the National Trust feeds this belief that the worst is yet to come. Of course, the millions who visit historic houses and gardens have a gentle, ...
( Category: England January 29,2015 )
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Castor Helen
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-06 | Author:Castor, Helen [Castor, Helen]

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 memorable, ...
( Category: England January 8,2015 )
Britain AD: A Quest for Arthur, England, and the Anglo-Saxons by Francis Pryor
epub |eng | 2004-04-15 | Author:Francis Pryor [Pryor, Francis]

Myres caused something of a sensation when he suggested that the earliest Saxon settlers arrived in Britain during his first phase of ‘overlap and controlled settlement’ (c.360-410). This is just ...
( Category: England January 6,2015 )
The Lady in the Tower The Fall of Anne
mobi | | | Author:Alison Weir

( Category: Great Britain January 6,2015 )
Mary Tudor Princess, Bastard, Queen
mobi | | | Author:Anna Whitelock

( Category: England January 6,2015 )
Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England: Thieves, Tricksters, Bards and Bawds by Terry Deary
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-06 | Author:Terry Deary [Deary, Terry]

‘I’m extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.’ Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), British Prime Minister BRIEF TIMELINE – THE YOUNG QUEEN 1560 The Virgin Queen has a ...
( Category: England December 31,2014 )
Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Thomas Levenson [Levenson, Thomas]

While talkative fools like Ball and Whitfield presented little difficulty to Newton, William Chaloner remained at large, a wholly different species of problem. He was vastly more ambitious than the ...
( Category: Great Britain December 29,2014 )

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