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Aristocratic Vice by Donna T. Andrew
epub |eng | 2013-11-08 | Author:Donna T. Andrew

“Mild-Mays too often deceive.…”:129 The Roseberry Affair Only a month after Lady Roseberry eloped with Sir Henry Mildmay, leaving her husband and four children for her widower brother-in-law with whom ...
( Category: England November 9,2016 )
The Wars of the Roses: The Key Players in the Struggle for Supremacy by Matthew Lewis
epub |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:Matthew Lewis [Lewis, Matthew]

13 Warwick’s Pride On 20 March 1470, Lord Berkeley of Berkeley Castle took an army into the field against Lord Lisle of Wooton at Nibley Green in Gloucestershire. The two ...
( Category: England July 9,2016 )
James I by John Matusiak
epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:John Matusiak

11 The King, His Beagles, His Countrymen and His Court ‘The English are for the most part little edified with the person or with the conduct of the king and ...
( Category: England June 28,2016 )
Kick Kennedy by Barbara Leaming
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Leaming

Nine Four weeks after Billy waded ashore in the rain from his landing craft on June 23, 1944, he could no longer pretend with Kick that their latest parting would ...
( Category: Great Britain June 27,2016 )
Dark History of the Kings & Queens of England by Brenda Ralph Lewis
epub |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:Brenda Ralph Lewis

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS is often pictured as a beautiful, desirable young woman. It was not true. Mary was no romantic heroine. She was an ignorant, foolish, indiscreet airhead. She ...
( Category: England June 14,2016 )
The Edge of the Empire by Bronwen Riley
epub |eng | | Author:Bronwen Riley

CHANGING FASHIONS The fullers will have been hard at work in the run-up to Julius Severus’s appearance in town, as local dignitaries prepare their outfits for the visit. The British ...
( Category: England May 27,2016 )
Battle Royal by Hugh Bicheno
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Hugh Bicheno [Bicheno, Hugh]

*1 When Calais was finally lost on 1 January 1558 it fell to a night attack that began with the capture of the sluice gates – by that time strongly ...
( Category: England May 3,2016 )
Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Thomas Keightley

Seal of the Templars. * * * * The other writers of that century agree in the account given above. Brompton's authority has been preferred by some modern writers, who ...
( Category: England May 2,2016 )
Clash of Crowns by Mary McAuliffe
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Mary McAuliffe

In the meantime, Richard and his mercenary henchman, Mercadier, had been pressing Philip hard to the south of Paris, in Berry and the Auvergne. This, as well as Henry Hohenstaufen’s ...
( Category: England May 2,2016 )
The Pity of War by Miranda Seymour
epub |eng | | Author:Miranda Seymour

PART TWO From Versailles to the Verge of War (1919–40) 18 LOVE AMONG THE RUINS (1919–23) The challenge facing the modest and quietly spoken Friedrich Ebert as the first president ...
( Category: European April 29,2016 )
The Stories of English by David Crystal
epub |eng | 2012-08-19 | Author:David Crystal [CRYSTAL, DAVID]

Some further examples are given on p. 326. It remains a lexicological puzzle why some words were accepted and some rejected. We do not know how to account for the ...
( Category: England April 25,2016 )
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
epub |eng | 1964-01-02 | Author:E. P. Thompson [Thompson, E. P.]

Within two months his opinion had changed. There were three reasons. First, he received reports both of the ‘Black Lamp’ and of secret trade union organization, which were more circumstantial, ...
( Category: England April 22,2016 )
Four Queens by Nancy Goldstone
epub |eng | 2007-04-21 | Author:Nancy Goldstone

Sanchia alt="image"/> Purses, symbols of money. CHAPTER XIV A ROYAL WINDFALL Beauty can be as effective a social or political tool as wealth or breeding, but it must be coupled ...
( Category: England April 22,2016 )
Serving Victoria by Kate Hubbard
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kate Hubbard [Hubbard, Kate]

CHAPTER 15 Henry Ponsonby: Private Secretary Whether due to the Brown effect or simply the passage of time, by the late 1860s the worst of the Queen’s grief had passed. ...
( Category: Great Britain April 14,2016 )
A Pauper's History of England by Peter Stubley
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Peter Stubley

Peasants harvesting wheat with reaping-hooks, on a calendar page for August in the Queen Mary Psalter, c.1310. (British Library Illuminated Manuscripts Collection) Peasants driving oxen and bulls, on a calendar ...
( Category: England April 10,2016 )

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