Great Britain
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-23 | Author:Jacky Hyams [Jacky Hyams]

CHAPTER 6 LAURA’S STORY: AN ANGEL AND A ROSE ‘WE WERE TINY COGS IN A SECRET ARMY’ Laura Hardwick was born in Trimdon, County Durham, in 1921. She has the ...
( Category: World War II November 24,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-10-08 | Author:Amy Licence

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 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Janice Hadlow

CHAPTER 11 An Intellectual Malady LIKE LORD HERVEY BEFORE HER, Fanny Burney thought the royal family had little true understanding of what it was like to be ill. ‘The fatigues ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Christopher Hitchens

[8] FDR’s Victory; Churchill’s Defeat Reviewing the American reaction to the aftermath of the First World War, Professor Selig Adler identified a predominant strain of what he called “disillusionist” thinking. ...
( Category: Diplomacy November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christian Wolmar

ELEVEN FIGHTING TOGETHER – RELUCTANTLY The strategic importance of the railways in wartime had been realized as early as 1855 in the Crimean War when the army shipped out 900 ...
( Category: History November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:David Loades [Loades, David]

6 MARY, SUFFOLK & THE KING Suffolk’s marriage to Mary brought about significant changes in his life. Any child born to the couple would have a claim to the throne, ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:David Loades [Loades, David]

It could hardly have been a more composed or orthodox departure, and even Chapuys was impressed. The formalities were quickly completed, and her body was committed for burial beside that ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-08 | Author:Johnson, Alan [Johnson, Alan]

If returning to unlovely North Kensington and the dreaded autumn term at Sloane was dispiriting after the glories of Denmark, I had the new football season to cheer me up. ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-07 | Author:Charles Spencer

Peters had been tried alongside the lawyer John Cook, who had mounted a brilliant legal defence that led to awkward questions as to the validity, the procedure and the content ...
( Category: England November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:William Manchester [MANCHESTER, WILLIAM]

Thus the rush of cataclysmic events came down to Tuesday, August 4, 1914, when at midnight Berlin time—11:00 P.M. in London—Grey’s ultimatum to Germany would expire. In Pear Tree Cottage, ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Norton, Elizabeth [Norton, Elizabeth]

He marryed my mother, a lady bright; That is long sith I saw her with sight; I trust in Iesu [Jesus] wee shall meete with winne, & I shall maintaine ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Licence, Amy [Licence, Amy]

9 Richard’s Wife 1472–1483 With love founded on profit, pleasure and honesty then shall true friendship reign among you.1 For the next decade, the rule of Edward IV went unchallenged. ...
( Category: England November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

Soon after Drake’s return from ‘singeing the King of Spain’s beard’, as his exploits were now popularly labelled, Walsingham sat down and drew up plans to gather more timely and ...
( Category: England November 23,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-06 | Author:Stella Tillyard [Tillyard, Stella]

PART THREE ‘Are you not delighted with our dear little Sally’s thinking herself with child?’ Caroline to Emily, 14 June 1768. ‘I am very glad you have bought that place ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Norton, Elizabeth [Norton, Elizabeth]

The Act expressly stated that matrimonial causes should not be tried by appeal to Rome and that they must be heard within the Church of England. This was the final ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )