epub |eng | 2017-08-15 | Author:Andrew Rawson

The Neville Inheritance, 1470-8 George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, had married Isabel, daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, in 1469, an important union. Neville supported Edward IV’s claim ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Ashton [Ashton, John]

The friction barely subsided throughout the cross-examination. When Keen attempted to again explore Talb’s training in the Soviet Union he refused to answer questions. Talb was ordered to leave the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alistair Moffat [Alistair Moffat]

By the spring of 1523 Dacre was at Kelso, his men torching the wooden and thatched houses. What made this more than a raid was the time and trouble taken ...

epub |eng | 2018-07-15 | Author:Magnus Linklater

Massacre of Glencoe And so a company of trustworthy Campbell troops, from the Earl of Argyll’s Regiment of Foot, commanded, as it happened, by a relative by marriage of MacIan’s, ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-14 | Author:Magnus Magnusson [Magnus Magnusson]

Civil war in Scotland (1570–73) The downfall of the regent came, brutally, after only a year. On 23 January 1570, as the Earl of Moray was riding through the main ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-14 | Author:Mark Hodgkinson

CHAPTER SEVEN THE BIG RISK Theirs wasn’t a partnership with a Michelin-starred beginning; one of their first encounters was in a strip mall just off Interstate 95 in Florida, in ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:Allan Morrison [Morrison, Allan]

Food ‘Ne’er trust a skinny cook.’ They clearly don’t eat their own meals. ‘Watch ye don’t slitter.’ Don’t make a mess. ‘Ah’m that hungry ah could eat a scabby heided ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-12 | Author:Emma Rothschild

• CHAPTER EIGHT • OTHER PEOPLE Elizabeth Caroline Johnstone Gray, who was John and Elizabeth Carolina’s granddaughter, wrote in her Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839, that the ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-12 | Author:Jacqueline Riding

Hubert Gravelot, Headpiece to Paul de Rapin-Thoyras’s ‘The History of England’, 1744–47. (© THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM) 35 Packington ‘flying back’ On Friday, 6 December the Duke of ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Roger Hutchinson

* Calum was referring here to James Loch and Patrick Sellar, the Scottish commissioner and factor respectively of Lord Stafford’s immense Sutherlandshire estate in the 1810s. Loch and Sellar enforced ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Charles River Editors

epub |eng | | Author:Ray Perman

* See Chapter 10 above. Part 3 Modernisation and internationalisation 22 Financing American railroads THE COLLAPSE OF the Western and the City of Glasgow banks reinforced the conservatism of the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-15 | Author:Arthur Herman

But the Scots and Scotch Irish laity loved it, and it became the hallmark of Southern—and American—religion from then until the present. It also forged a link between the Presbyterian ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Ian Hamilton

Chapter Fifteen Twenty-four hours earlier we could have called the whole thing off and gone home to live with nothing worse than our private shame at our failure. Up until ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Mermaid and the Hare ‘Certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid’s music’ Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (said to be a reference ...