Great Britain
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Antonia Fraser

In London, where accounts of countrywide violence were not slow in coming in, just as press reports of Parliament were rushed into the provinces, tension in the Government was still ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

* * * CHAPTER III --AS IT MIGHT BE MADE * * * The supporters of Sabbath Bills, and more especially the extreme class of Dissenters, lay great stress upon ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-29 | Author:Mortimer, Ian [Mortimer, Ian]

TWELVE At the Court of the Sun King IN 1350 EDWARD’S confidence could not have been higher. He had been victorious in every battle he had fought. He had survived ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-30 | Author:Mortimer, Ian [Mortimer, Ian]

THIRTEEN Uneasy Lies the Head Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And in the calmest and most stillest night ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Mortimer, Ian [Mortimer, Ian]

With respect to the marriage of which you write at the end of your letter, it does not appear that the means that you have adopted to make a request ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

CHAPTER 23. THE CLEARING OF THE SOUTH-EAST. Lord Roberts never showed his self-command and fixed purpose more clearly than during his six weeks' halt at Bloemfontein. De Wet, the most ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

* * * X. THE MODERN DRAMA IN CORNWALL. Our walk from Botallack Mine to St. Ives, led us almost invariably between moors and hills on one side, and cliffs ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

If the Vatican was an unreliable source of loans, there were always bankers. That August, Philip borrowed ‘one million of gold’ from Genoa at nearly 25 per cent interest, having ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

CHAPTER NINE The Mystery of the Royal Will ‘His Majesty … being by God’s sufferance born by just and most certain title and succession to such a kingdom as knows ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1989-11-04 | Author:gail maccoll [maccoll, gail]

* * * When he finally inherited Kedleston in 1916, George Curzon embarked on a renovation program that included installing bathrooms. With characteristic attention to detail, he lay down in ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Anne Somerset [Somerset, Anne]

The Whigs hoped to receive some redress when a new Bishop of Exeter was named, and after the Bishop of Chester died in early 1707 they assumed that he too ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:Lambert, Andrew [Lambert, Andrew]

1 Spencer to St Vincent 28.11.1800; Morriss, R. ed. The Channel Fleet and the Blockade of Brest 1793–1801, Aldershot, Navy Records Society, 2001, p. 590. 2 Feldbaek, O. Denmark and ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:Peter Ford

CHAPTER 9 ‘Such a Gentle, Kindly Man, Poor Thing!’ Even during the early days following his admission to the London Hospital, the case of Joseph Merrick began to attract the ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Morton [Morton, Andrew]

During their marriage Diana found it embarrassing that when she and the Prince of Wales went away he took more luggage than she did: ‘I am always appalled that Prince ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

15 A settlement of the nation He proposed to them, That the old King being dead, and his son being defeated, it was necessary to come to a Settlement of ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )