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Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 7 by Alexander Leighton
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Alexander Leighton [Leighton, Alexander]

A large grey cat occupied the other side of the passage, and a few hens, with the necessary accompaniment, clucked and chuckled, and crowed around. Janet sat there in her ...
( Category: General December 15,2014 )
The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
epub |eng | 2007-06-12 | Author:Tina Brown [Brown, Tina]

Chapter Fourteen Two Kinds of Love I have lain awake at night loving you desperately and thanking God for bringing you into my life. —Diana to Major Hewitt, August 1989 ...
( Category: Great Britain December 15,2014 )
Where Have All The Bullets Gone? by Spike Milligan
epub |eng | 1984-12-31 | Author:Spike Milligan

- Transcribed newspaper cutting from the Union Jack, 1945 The compère for the contest is Captain Philip Ridgeway, the announcer. He is as informed on Dance Bands as Mrs Thatcher ...
( Category: Great Britain December 8,2014 )
Senseless Acts of Beauty by George McKay
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-12-31 | Author:George McKay

Certain drugs have commonly been associated with different subcultures over the years – speed with mods and punks, acid and cannabis with hippies, for instance26 – but it’s in rave ...
( Category: Great Britain December 8,2014 )
1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII by Lipscomb Suzannah
epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Lipscomb, Suzannah [Lipscomb, Suzannah]

CHAPTER 13 Henry VIII’s Theology Henry VIII’s theology seems to have situated itself somewhere between the later identities of Protestant and Catholic, and even somewhere between the contemporary beliefs of ...
( Category: England December 6,2014 )
Letters from the Trenches by Lamin Bill
epub |eng | | Author:Lamin, Bill [Lamin, Bill]

As readers have probably come to expect by now, Harry used the time out of the line to write to both Kate and Jack. Feb 7th /1918 32507/ 9th Batt ...
( Category: Veterans November 30,2014 )
Royal Murder by Alexander Marc
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Alexander, Marc [Alexander, Marc]

One day too late, I fear, my noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth. O, call back yesterday, bid time return, And thou shalt have twelve thousand ...
( Category: Great Britain November 26,2014 )
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey by Jessie Childs
mobi |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Jessie Childs

Thus, for our guilt, this jewel have we lost. The earth his bones, the heavens possess his ghost.58 Surrey’s implication in these lines is that God took Wyatt from his ...
( Category: Great Britain November 26,2014 )
The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Women's Stories by Amy Licence
epub |eng | 2014-10-08 | Author:Amy Licence [Licence, Amy]

33 Love Letters, 1526–27 Nothynge yerthly to me more desyrous Than to beholde youre bewteouse countenaunce: But, hatefull absens, to me so enuyous, Though thou withdraw me from her by ...
( Category: England November 24,2014 )
The Cartel The Inside Story of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang by Graham Johnson
mobi |eng | 2012-09-19 | Author:Graham Johnson

CHAPTER 26 ROUND TWO 1996 THE HANDS-OFF APPROACH was common among Cartel operators. Once they had established their reputation, they could sit back and let others do the legwork without ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
Crisis? What Crisis? by Alwyn Turner
epub |eng | | Author:Alwyn Turner [Turner, Alwyn W.]

PART THREE SENSE OF DOUBT 1976–1979 The great British mistake was looking for a way out, Was getting complacent, not noticing the pulse was racing. The mistake was fighting the ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
A Brief History of the House of Windsor by Michael Paterson
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Paterson

5 ELIZABETH II, 1952–PRESENT ‘Voluntary change is the life-blood of the Crown.’ Prince Philip Queen Elizabeth II is within a few years of becoming the longest-reigning monarch in British history. ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
Tudor Women Queens & Commoners by Alison Plowden
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:Alison Plowden

No one, of course, supposed for a moment that the King would put up with the unsatisfactory state of his marital affairs for long, and the only question in most ...
( Category: England November 24,2014 )
Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution by Peter Ackroyd
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

after Dr Twisse had begun with a brief prayer, Mr Marshal prayed large two hours most divinely. After, Mr Arrowsmith preached one hour, then a psalm, thereafter Mr Vines prayed ...
( Category: England November 24,2014 )
The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor by Penny Junor
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-03-04 | Author:Penny Junor

TWENTY-EIGHT Community Spirit His experiment at Poundbury is by no means the first time the Prince of Wales has had an influence on government. The Department of Work and Pensions ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )

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