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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 )
The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Elizabeth Norton [Norton, Elizabeth]

By 5 September, the queen, weakened with fever, was declining; everyone knew that she could not live long. She was calmer, though, and had already asked Thomas for his consent ...
( Category: Great Britain May 2,2016 )
The King's Bed by Don Jordan
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Don Jordan

* The children were: Lady Anne FitzRoy, 1661; Charles FitzRoy, 1662; Henry FitzRoy, 1663; Charlotte FitzRoy, 1664; George FitzRoy, 1665. 13 THEATRICAL RIVALS The year 1668 began with scandal and ...
( Category: Great Britain May 2,2016 )
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 )
Britain by Paul Norbury
epub |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Paul Norbury [Norbury, Paul]

This recent process of “devolving power” also includes a change in London, where since 2000 there has been an elected mayor and a separately elected twenty-five-member Assembly (known as the ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions April 30,2016 )
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 People by Selina Todd
epub |eng | 2014-02-23 | Author:Selina Todd [Selina Todd]

11 Working-Class Heroes IN OCTOBER 1957 Margaret Forster began a history degree at Somerville College, Oxford. She came from a council estate in Carlisle: her father was a factory worker; ...
( Category: Great Britain 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 Tudor Tutor by Lisa Graves
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Lisa Graves

The new couple shared a love of dancing and reading. There’s no reason to believe they didn’t genuinely enjoy each other’s company. Although Henry was immense by then, this wasn’t ...
( Category: Great Britain 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 )
The British Dream by Goodhart David
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:Goodhart, David

Multiculturalism, What’s the Big Idea? Academic multiculturalism faces two big intellectual challenges. First, how can its stress on group rights and the primacy of ethnic identities be reconciled with the ...
( Category: European April 13,2016 )
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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