Great Britain
epub |eng | | Author:Higgs, Michelle

The convicts returning to the hulks after a day’s work. (From Mayhew & Binny) EXILES Not all convicts sentenced to penal servitude were to serve out their sentences in prison. ...
( Category: Great Britain March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-09 | Author:Daniel Trilling [Trilling, Daniel]

A few days after they were elected, Burnley’s three new BNP councillors – all local candidates, and none with easily identifiable roots in fascist politics – gave their first press ...
( Category: Fascism March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cock-Starkey, Claire

On gardening jobs for May: ‘May. Gemini, or the Twins. Begin to graft in this Month, according as you find the Buds ready, which take off the Middle of your ...
( Category: Essays March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Frank McLynn

13 IT WAS SOME TIME before the backlash from the Lusignans manifested itself, so that John must sometimes have wondered if, against all the odds, he had got away with ...
( Category: Royalty March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Malachi O'Doherty

Loyal Rebels Jamie Bryson sees himself as a champion of loyalist cultural rights. He is a short, trim and argumentative young man with an apparently bottomless appetite for contention. He ...
( Category: Irish March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Caroline Ikin

The Free Gardeners adopted much of the ritual and symbolism of the Freemasons. This apron depicts the gardener’s knife above the mason’s compass and square, while the letters P, G, ...
( Category: Essays March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Brooke-Smith

Graves describes a semiotic system as bafflingly arcane and rigorously policed as the tattoos used by Russian criminal gangs to mark their allegiances and histories. Both of these systems are ...
( Category: Great Britain March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henrietta Marshall

THE CRUSADES: THE CHRISTIAN KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM—THE FOUNDING OF THE GREAT ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD IT WAS NOT UNTIL the autumn of 1096 that the first great Crusading army set out, ...
( Category: Children's European History March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Cottrell

The guerrilla war, 19 August 1922–24 May 1923 The guerrilla phase was the longest and in many respects the bitterest stage of the civil war. In all it would last ...
( Category: Great Britain March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Kenyon

CHAPTER SIX UNDERSTANDING GERMAN EXPECTATIONS In the summer of 1941, one of Bletchley’s senior codebreakers, Dilly Knox, was applying himself to the ciphers of the Abwehr, Germany’s intelligence service. Knox ...
( Category: Great Britain March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roger Bryan

JAMES I 1566–1625, reigned 1603–1625 Son of Henry Stuart and Mary, Queen of Scots (James I of England also reigned as James VI of Scotland from 1567–1625) Elizabeth I had ...
( Category: Trivia March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Peter Rex [Rex, Peter]

The Sack of Peterborough Having dismissed his army at Salisbury on his return from the North, William held his Easter Court of 1070 at Westminster. He then proceeded to take ...
( Category: Great Britain March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-30 | Author:Daniel Defoe

I come now back to my own history, which grows near a conclusion, as to the travels I took in this part of the world. We were now at sea, ...
( Category: Classics March 13,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Sarah Tarlow & Emma Battell Lowman

Though constrained by the terms of their official role, public expectations, social hierarchies, and the limited period during which bodies remained useful for anatomical work, medical men nonetheless exercised a ...
( Category: Criminology March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-18 | Author:Diana Souhami

THREE When Bertie began his ‘small Mrs George dinners’ in 1898, his mother, Queen Victoria, had been on the throne for sixty-one years. She had two to go. Her fat ...
( Category: LGBT March 13,2020 )