Great Britain
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Bradbury, Jim [Bradbury, Jim]

THE ROUT OF WINCHESTER There were two castles in Winchester: the royal castle, which Matilda had already claimed, and the bishop’s own stronghold, Wolvesey Castle, which has recently been reopened ...
( Category: England March 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-16 | Author:Adrian Weir [Weir, Adrian]

11. FOCUS ON THE 3rd AD Trailing in the numerous wakes and fading contrails of the leading formations, the crews of the B-17s belonging to the 3rd AD were well ...
( Category: World War II March 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Bruce Hoffman [Hoffman, Bruce]

“If it is accepted that the problem of defeating the enemy consists very largely of finding him,” General Sir Frank Kitson, arguably Britain’s preeminent expert on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, has ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]

JAMES II OF ENGLAND/JAMES VII OF SCOTLAND and Anne Hyde 1637-1671 The prodigiously buxom and flirtatious Anne Hyde was the daughter of Edward Hyde, a Wiltshire lawyer who turned to ...
( Category: England March 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Mike Milotte

8. A Very Grave Offence On the 19th of January 1965, Mary Keating, midwife and proprietress of St Rita’s private nursing home in south Dublin, was convicted in the Dublin ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Policy March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Donnelly, Mark P. [Donnelly, Mark P.]

PART III Turmoil and Treason 9 GUNPOWDER, TREASON AND PLOT Guy ‘Guido’ Fawkes 1604–5 Following the Catholic conspiracies centred on Mary Queen of Scots, religious bigotry and hatred bubbled to ...
( Category: Great Britain March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-09 | Author:Helen East

Turn again Whittington, Lord Mayor of London. Turn again Whittington, Lord Mayor of London. Turn again Whittington, Lord Mayor of London. Once. Twice. Thrice. Yes! He stayed there until he ...
( Category: Great Britain March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:David R L Litchfield

5 BAVARIAN RHAPSODY * * * 1934–36 * * * Somewhere between fear and sex is passion. Somewhere between God and the Devil. Jeanette Winterson On 30 June 1934 the ...
( Category: World War II March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-30 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]

Catherine placed this letter in a cabinet in her study and locked it away. There it remained throughout her reign, discovered after her death by the new emperor, her son, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Martin Allen

( Category: World War II March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Sarah-Beth Watkins [Watkins, Sarah-Beth]

Seen in context, Hale was blaming Mr Skidmore (or Scudamore) for suggesting that Henry Carey was the King’s son. It was just one of many libellous statements that Hale made, ...
( Category: England March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Jasper Rees

Hawddamor, glwysgor glasgoed … The less euphonious English version opposite has this down as ‘Greetings, splendid greenwood choir’. I feel like George Borrow bar the small discrepancy that I recognise ...
( Category: Wales March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Juliet Nicolson

10 Release Early Winter 1919 The skies were filling with spectacular and record-breaking machines. Alcock and Brown’s recent crossing of the Atlantic by air in June was still on everyone’s ...
( Category: England March 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-14 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill [Ashdown-Hill, John]

Notes Abbreviations CPR Calendar of Patent Rolls ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography PROME Parliament Rolls of Medieval England 1. See, for example, Ashdown-Hill, Royal Marriage Secrets, pp. 70–3. 2. ...
( Category: England March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Derek Wilson

Chapter 7 ‘SHE SEEMETH TO BE VERY EARNESTLY BENT TO PROCEED’ 1581–4 ‘I content myself, Monsieur, that you assure yourself of me as of the most faithful friend that ever ...
( Category: Great Britain March 21,2015 )