Great Britain
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

38 “Squire Harry Will Be God, and Do as He Pleases!” It was around 1530 that a former servant of Wolsey’s, Thomas Cromwell, entered the King’s service. One of the ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:Helen Rappaport [Rappaport, Helen]

Chapter Eleven ‘A Married Daughter I Must Have Living with Me’ In the spring of 1863 the British public resolutely shook off its gloom and enjoyed a few days of ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Paterson [Paterson, Michael]

MATURITY, 1960–1970 ‘The English are getting bored with their monarchy.’ By the beginning of the 1960s the Queen had, as she had put it, ‘matured into’ her office. Her apprenticeship ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-31 | Author:Blair, Tony [Blair, Tony]

Round the world, September 11 is bringing governments and people to reflect, consider and change. And in this process, amidst all the talk of war and action, there is another ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1983-05-30 | 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: U.K. Prime Ministers March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-01 | Author:Martin McGartland [McGartland, Martin]

CHAPTER EIGHT THOUGH SPUD, MY NEW IRA BOSS, HAD WARNED ME to keep away from the IRA’s intelligence wing, Davy Adams still stayed in contact, asking me to carry out ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:The Countess of Carnarvon [Carnarvon, The Countess of]

12 War Heroes After six months of listening to horror stories from the Western Front and tending desperate patients, the familiarity of the winter trip to Egypt must have felt ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:Hook, Peter [Hook, Peter]

The closest we came to exporting the Haçienda experience was by hosting theme nights around Europe and America. Rob saw them as a way of promoting the brand further, which ...
( Category: Punk March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-17 | Author:Kevin Cook

Tommy’s victories over Fergusson restored the Morrises’ honor but did nothing for Tom’s reputation. There were whispers on both sides of the Forth that “Old Tom” was no longer a ...
( Category: Golf March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1997-09-01 | Author:Kitty Kelley

FOURTEEN I’m fed up to the teeth with your bloody security,” exploded the Duke of Edinburgh. “Let’s get going.” “I’m sorry, sir,” said the U.S. Secret Service agent, “but there’s ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:Roy Porter

An unbeliever, Owen secularized Christian idioms in envisaging ‘the foretold millennium… when the slave and the prisoner, the bond-man and the bond-woman, and the child and the servant, shall be ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-06-03 | Author:Simon Winchester

The British had few early doubts about the purpose behind the annexation of Hong Kong. The island had been placed there for the exclusive convenience of the British Empire, and ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:Susan Brigden

European wars were now fought for possession of souls as well as for lands and taxes; the struggle against oppression would be for religious as well as other liberties. The ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-29 | Author:Robert Lacey

ELIZABETH - QUEEN OF HEARTS 1559 ELIZABETH I WAS CROWNED IN WESTMINSTER Abbey on 15 January 1559 — a date selected by her astrologer, Dr John Dee. Cheering crowds had ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-14 | Author:John Darwin

Hughes’ frustration was the greater because, as he readily admitted, ‘there is only one course open to us in practice and that is to follow Britain’.99 Unless Australia spoke as ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )