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In Search of England by Michael Wood
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-09 | Author:Michael Wood

Mounted strength: a numberless host of cavalry. Eventually the voice of protest roused the king; Not to let himself be branded thus: That his people had meekly given in to ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
The Wreckers by Bella Bathurst
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bella Bathurst [Bathurst, Bella]

I regret to have to report that matters relating to wreck and salvage in those islands [the Hebrides], especially in South Uist and Barra, are as unsatisfactory as they can ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
The Battlefields of England by Alfred H. Burne
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alfred H. Burne

1 The most recent biography of Queen Margaret passes over this point in silence. 1 It is not certain that Norfolk himself was present. 1 The present bridge is of ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
British History for Dummies by Sean Lang
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-04-21 | Author:Sean Lang

Boom, shake the room – the Gunpowder Plot If James thought the Puritans were a problem (see the preceding section), he hadn’t yet met the Catholics. James was as good ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776 by Simon Schama
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Simon Schama [Schama, Simon]

CHAPTER 5 BRITANNIA INCORPORATED IN WILLIAMITE BRITAIN, showing up late could get you killed. William III came from a culture that set great store by good timing. In 1688, his ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
Honourable Company: A History of The English East India Company by John Keay
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:John Keay

It is a wonder to us that any of you live six months, and that there are not more quarrellings and duellings amongst you, if half these liquors were guzzled ...
( Category: India March 4,2015 )
The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
epub, pdf | | 2015-03-02 | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

Northumberland was at King's College, Cambridge when, on the morning of 20 July, he heard that Mary had been proclaimed in London. In a desperate attempt to save his neck, ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian worldview:How the Nazi eugenic crusade for a superior race caused the greatest Holocaust in world history by Jerry Bergman
epub |eng | 2013-07-17 | Author:Jerry Bergman [Bergman, Jerry]

In the Auschwitz camp, the new prisoners were divided into four groups. The first were those who were judged unable to do heavy work, which included about three quarters of ...
( Category: Holocaust March 4,2015 )
7 Men Who Rule the World from the Grave by Dave Breese
epub |eng | 2009-11-04 | Author:Dave Breese [Breese, Dave]

Then it happened. There broke upon the world the voice, the writings, and the mysterious perceptions of a man who seemed to have discovered how to define the nuances of ...
( Category: General March 4,2015 )
The Ark Before Noah by Irving Finkel
epub |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:Irving Finkel [Finkel, Irving]

Urra Tablet XIV lists all the other animals, big and small. The structure is consistent: a head section word, on the basis of Sumerian, acts like a dictionary hyperlink. Sumerian ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries March 4,2015 )
Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion by Ronald Susan
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Ronald, Susan [Ronald, Susan]

For the time being, Elizabeth and her Councillors were blissfully unaware that Pius V had proclaimed his papal fatwa on England’s queen. In February 1570, word had reached them of ...
( Category: Great Britain March 3,2015 )
Big Chief Elizabeth by Milton Giles
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-30 | Author:Milton, Giles [Milton, Giles]

“A wyfe ought to be chaste, pacyent and sober,” reads one Elizabethan guide for housewives. She also needed to be hardworking, for her daily routine included baking, brewing, harvesting, spinning, ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 3,2015 )
The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant by Schofield John
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Schofield, John [Schofield, John]

1 Foxe 5, pp. 376–8, 384; ET, p. 10 = OL 1, p. 15. 2 LP 10, no. 942. 3 Elton: Policy pp. 244–5; Merriman 2, pp. 111–13; Burnet 4, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 3,2015 )
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Ives Eric
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-08-19 | Author:Ives, Eric [Ives, Eric]

So far the theme appears classical, but the relevant Vergil passage had been understood ever since the fourth century to refer to the advent of the Blessed Virgin, the mother ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )
Catherine Howard by Smith Lacey Baldwin
mobi |eng | 2011-11-09 | Author:Smith, Lacey Baldwin [Smith, Lacey Baldwin]

CHAPTER 6 ‘Harry With the Crown’ Henry and Catherine were married on 28 July 1540. Heads had fallen, the international scene had been confounded, and the world cynically speculated upon ...
( Category: Great Britain March 3,2015 )

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