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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I
Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible formatIn the popular imagination, as in her portraits, Elizabeth I is the image of monarchical power. T...
Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II : The Steadfast
In September 2015 Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's longest-reigning monarch. During her long lifetime Britain and the world have changed beyond recognition, yet throughout she has stood s...
Elizabeth Of York
Elizabeth of York : the First Tudor Queen
Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. Heiress to the royal House of York, she schemed to marry Richard III, the man who had deposed ...
Elizabeth The Forgotten Years
Elizabeth : The Forgotten Years
History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless p...
Elizabeth's Bedfellows
Elizabeth's Bedfellows : An Intimate History of the Queen's Court
Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart of the new queen's court lay Elizabeth's bedchamber, c...
Elizabeth's Rival
Elizabeth's Rival : The Tumultous Tale of Lettice Knollys Countess of Leicester
The first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the Elizabethan era.Cousin to Elizabeth I - and very likely also...
Elizabeth's Women : The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen
Elizabeth's Women : The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen
Elizabeth I was born into a world of women.As a child, she was served by a predominantly female household of servants and governesses, with occasional visits from...
Emigrants
Emigrants
During the course of the seventeenth century nearly 400,000 people left Britain for the Americas, most of them from England. Crossing the Atlantic was a major undertaking, the voyage long and treacherous. Ther...
Emperor's Shadow
Emperor's Shadow : Bonaparte, Betsy and the Balcombes of St Helena
After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, he was sent into exile on St Helena, arriving in October 1815. For the six years until his death,...
Empire : What Ruling the World Did to the British
Empire : What Ruling the World Did to the British
The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It affects everything, from Pri...
England And The Aeroplane : Militarism, Modernity and Machines
England And The Aeroplane : Militarism, Modernity and Machines
The story of the strange mixture of romanticism, militarism and technology that has made planes so important to England, from the brilliant author of Britai...
England Arise
England, Arise : The People, the King & the Great Revolt of 1381
The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what everyday life w...
English Society In The 18th Century
The Penguin Social History of Britain : English Society in the Eighteenth Century
This is a portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics cover...
Facsimile Magna Carta
Facsimile Magna Carta Scroll
The Magna Carta, is a legal charter, originally issued in the year 1215. The Magna Carta required King John of England to proclaim certain rights, respect certain legal procedures, and accep...
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Fall Of The House Of Wilde
Fall of the House of Wilde : Oscar Wilde and his family
Oscar Wilde owed his most outstanding characteristics - his precocious intellectualism, his flamboyance, his hedonism, his recklessness, his pride, his sense of su...
Family Britain 1951-57
Family Britain 1951-57
As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive this narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and ratio...
Farewell To The East End
Farewell to the East End
The third and final book in the bestselling Call The Midwife series, soon to be a major BBC TV series. This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end ...
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Fatal Path
Fatal Path
This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the Unite...
Ferguson's Gang
Ferguson Gang : The Remarkable Story fo the National Trust Gangsters
1927. Britain's heritage is vanishing. Beautiful landscapes are being bulldozed.
Historic buildings are being blown up. Stonehenge is collapsing. En...
Festival Of Britain Design 1951
Festival Of Britain Design 1951
Inspired by the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Festival of Britain followed soon after the austerity of the war years. The major events were focused around the twenty-seven-acre bomb site ...
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