Great Britain
epub |eng | 2011-11-09 | Author:Pete Scholey

WO1 REGIMENTAL SERGEANT-MAJOR REG TAYLER The spinning blades of the Sultan of Oman’s Air Force (SOAF) Huey kicked up storms of dust that swirled around the helicopter landing pad, the ...
( Category: Great Britain September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gristwood, Sarah [Gristwood, Sarah]

IT IS OFTEN SAID that Elizabeth Woodville must have known the Princes were dead, or she would never have gone along with a plan to marry her daughter Elizabeth, with ...
( Category: Great Britain September 18,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gristwood, Sarah [Gristwood, Sarah]

John Talbot, in his Garter robes, presents a copy of the beautifully illustrated Shrewsbury Book to Marguerite of Anjou, shown hand in hand with her new husband, Henry VI. Daisies—Marguerite’s ...
( Category: Great Britain September 18,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-10 | Author:Goodwin, George [Goodwin, George]

In the Midlands, potential recruitment was more balanced. Certainly, the Queen had established herself in the late 1450s as a major power in the region. She had then been able ...
( Category: England September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Michael Hicks [Hicks, Michael]

CHAPTER FIVE Her Husband’s Wife 1475–83 WHAT ARE DUCHESSES FOR? The Apostle Paul wrote that marriage was a means of carnal satisfaction without sin. Sex was certainly expected of their ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-21 | Author:Weightman, Christine [Weightman, Christine]

CHAPTER 6 ‘This Diabolicall Duches’ ‘LYKE A DOGGE REVERTYNGE TO HER OLDE VOMYTE.’ ‘Once more’, wrote Jean Molinet, ‘the house of York has been left wretched and deserted by Good ...
( Category: England September 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:Hancock, Peter A. [Hancock, Peter A.]

Ramsay is even terser on this matter and simply states, ‘de Comines’ assertions that the troth of Edward and Eleanor had been received by the Bishop of Bath was doubtless ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Ashdown-Hill, John [Ashdown-Hill, John]

Some historians have chosen to interpret all this as proof positive that the Duchess of Bedford had never been guilty of sorcery. Such an interpretation is extremely naïve. It has ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-19 | Author:Lewis, Matthew [Lewis, Matthew]

The Third Period Insurgence The third period of conflict was brief and demonstrated both the dominance of the Yorkist King Edward and the desperation of his Lancastrian opponents. In April ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Santiuste, David [Santiuste, David]

Perhaps it is true that Edward did not respect Warwick’s abilities as a commander, although Chastelain’s comments may be derived from Edward’s bravado at the Burgundian court in the following ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Bill Bryson

LEGACIES Bragg dedicated his last years to restoring the RI, which had gone through a fallow period, to the glory days of Faraday or indeed his own father. Apart from ...
( Category: England September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Alford, Stephen [Alford, Stephen]

13 Alias Cornelys In the story of Mary Queen of Scots’s nineteen-year captivity in England no chapter is more extraordinary than the Babington Plot and no conspiracy more tangled. It ...
( Category: England September 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:Cooper, John [Cooper, John]

Reading this letter in context, it almost rings true. The Elizabethan age praised those willing to face peril in the pursuit of fame. Berden’s work was undoubtedly dangerous, and by ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Hallie Rubenhold [Rubenhold, Hallie]

… Lady Worsley used to come to the cold bath near Maidstone to bathe, and that she [Marriott] used to attend her; that Sir Richard and Mr Bissett [sic] were ...
( Category: Great Britain September 10,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:Hallie Rubenhold

( Category: Great Britain September 10,2014 )