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Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900 (Volume I) by Churchill Randolph S
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-04 | Author:Churchill, Randolph S. [Churchill, Randolph S.]

( Category: Great Britain April 14,2015 )
17 Carnations by Morton Andrew
epub |eng | 2015-03-08 | Author:Morton, Andrew

He went on to outline how the ducal couple were enthusiastic about returning to Spain, though they were concerned that they would be taken prisoner. When the duke was shown ...
( Category: Great Britain April 10,2015 )
Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain by Flanders Judith
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:Flanders, Judith [Flanders, Judith]

JUPITER: Deuce take the fellow; where is Bacchus now? MERCURY: He’s at the Punch Bowl, drunk as David’s sow. JUPITER: Where’s Mars? MERCURY: He’s gone to drill. JUPITER: Where’s Juno, ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
White Boots & Miniskirts by Jacky Hyams
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:Jacky Hyams

CHAPTER SEVEN THE ’60S ARE OVER A large house on Islington’s Liverpool Road where a New Year’s Eve party is in full swing. People drift from room to room, voices ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
A Magnificent Obsession: The Death That Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Helen Rappaport

Chapter Eleven ‘A Married Daughter I Must Have Living with Me’ In the spring of 1863 the British public resolutely shook off its gloom and enjoyed a few days of ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-06 | Author:Judith Flanders

Adelaide Bartlett had a background that sounds suspiciously like that of a penny-dreadful heroine. Some contemporary crime historians have suggested that she was the illegitimate daughter of a son of ...
( Category: England April 5,2015 )
Unsolved London Murders by Jonathan Oates
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-19 | Author:Jonathan Oates

CHAPTER 12 Did Frederick Field Kill Annie Upchurch? 1931 There was no doubt that this case was going to be a bit of a stinker. As Spilsbury’s first biographer noted, ...
( Category: England April 5,2015 )
Feckers by John Waters
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Waters

30 Ian Paisley Once, back in the 1970s, Paisley boasted of how John Hume had once turned to him in frustration and said, ‘Paisley, you’re just an Ulster Protestant.’ ‘I ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
The Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived in Stately Homes a Century Ago by Jacky Hyams
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Jacky Hyams

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN UPPERS AND LOWERS The innate snobbery of many of the upper servants – governesses, for some reason, can be particularly snobbish towards the lowers, perhaps because they are ...
( Category: Class April 5,2015 )
The Victorian City by Judith Flanders
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Judith Flanders

A City chophouse, fitted out with standard booth-style seating, or ‘boxes’, as they were known. The waiter looks anxious to serve: he was not an employee, but instead he paid ...
( Category: England April 5,2015 )
Life in a Medieval Castle by Joseph Gies
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Joseph Gies

Sir Hugh of Goldingham, the steward of the forest, and Roger of Tingewick, the riding forester,…perceived a man on horseback and a page following him with a bow and arrows, ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
The Men Who Would Be King by Josephine Ross
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-16 | Author:Josephine Ross

6 “The Weal of the Kingdom” While there was “but one mistress and no master” in England, there would be no heirs born to the queen. Admirable as her desire ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' Family Story by Helen Edwards & Jenny Lee Smith
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Helen Edwards & Jenny Lee Smith [Edwards, Helen & Smith, Jenny Lee]

CHAPTER 21 Helen The Gun Chase ‘I’m pregnant,’ I grinned. I was bubbling over with excitement. ‘That’s wonderful.’ Simon gave me a huge hug. ‘Hey, not so tight,’ I teased ...
( Category: England April 2,2015 )
Jane Austen's England by Roy Adkins Lesley Adkins & Roy Adkins Lesley Adkins
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Roy Adkins,Lesley Adkins & Roy Adkins,Lesley Adkins

The very last frost fair took place in February 1814. Never again would the Thames freeze so solidly once the old London Bridge was removed in 1831, after which the ...
( Category: Great Britain March 31,2015 )
Winter King by Thomas Penn
epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Thomas Penn [Penn, Thomas]

10 New Heaven, New Earth In autumn 1504 Desiderius Erasmus was in Paris; as usual, he was broke. News reached him from England, where his friend John Colet, the ascetic ...
( Category: England March 27,2015 )

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