epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Ronald McNair Scott [Ronald McNair Scott]

Bruce had used this raid to test the quality of the resistance he might expect, and having found it wanting he resolved to enlarge the scale of his invasion. Taking ...

epub | | | Author:Gordon Corrigan [Corrigan, Gordon]

Sir John Hawkwood. Painting by artist Paolo Uccello created in 1436, currently displayed at the Duomo in Florence, Italy. A highly competent military commander made redundant by Edward III after ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara W.]

Mehemet, smoking his diamond-studded pipe, promised him “any portion of land open for sale in Syria” and agreed to “do everything that lies in my power” to support his project. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-10 | Author:Goodwin, George [Goodwin, George]

In the Midlands, potential recruitment was more balanced. Certainly, the Queen had established herself in the late 1450s as a major power in the region. She had then been able ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Michael Hicks [Hicks, Michael]

CHAPTER FIVE Her Husband’s Wife 1475–83 WHAT ARE DUCHESSES FOR? The Apostle Paul wrote that marriage was a means of carnal satisfaction without sin. Sex was certainly expected of their ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-21 | Author:Weightman, Christine [Weightman, Christine]

CHAPTER 6 ‘This Diabolicall Duches’ ‘LYKE A DOGGE REVERTYNGE TO HER OLDE VOMYTE.’ ‘Once more’, wrote Jean Molinet, ‘the house of York has been left wretched and deserted by Good ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:Hancock, Peter A. [Hancock, Peter A.]

Ramsay is even terser on this matter and simply states, ‘de Comines’ assertions that the troth of Edward and Eleanor had been received by the Bishop of Bath was doubtless ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Ashdown-Hill, John [Ashdown-Hill, John]

Some historians have chosen to interpret all this as proof positive that the Duchess of Bedford had never been guilty of sorcery. Such an interpretation is extremely naïve. It has ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Santiuste, David [Santiuste, David]

Perhaps it is true that Edward did not respect Warwick’s abilities as a commander, although Chastelain’s comments may be derived from Edward’s bravado at the Burgundian court in the following ...

azw3 |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Bill Bryson

LEGACIES Bragg dedicated his last years to restoring the RI, which had gone through a fallow period, to the glory days of Faraday or indeed his own father. Apart from ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Alford, Stephen [Alford, Stephen]

13 Alias Cornelys In the story of Mary Queen of Scots’s nineteen-year captivity in England no chapter is more extraordinary than the Babington Plot and no conspiracy more tangled. It ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Elizabeth Norton

PART III LATER MEDIEVAL & TUDOR QUEENS WITCHCRAFT, WAR & AMBITION 12 Later Medieval & Tudor Queens In 1399, Henry Bolingbroke usurped the throne from his cousin Richard II, ushering ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

* W. Armstrong Davison, in The Casket Letters, advances the further theory that Darnley was already suffering from syphilis when Queen Mary nursed him, apparently for measles, in April 1565. ...

epub, mobi, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Caroline Elkins [Elkins, Caroline]

No amount of pleading would arouse the sympathy of the headman and his Home Guards to agree to allow the poor woman to go to the farm. Even if her ...

epub |eng | 2007-07-26 | Author:Nigel Slater [ Slater, Nigel]

Pontefract Cakes Not in fact a cake, but a flat disc, shiny and black as a top hat, flavoured with liquorice and aniseed. According to Laura Mason and Catherine Brown ...