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Gwynne's Kings And Queens
Gwynne's Kings and Queens : The Indispensible History of England
Do you know your Kings and Queens of England by heart? Can you tell your Ethelred from your Ethelbert? Your Marcia from your Matilda? Well, passionate edu...
Harold Wilson's Cold War
Harold Wilson's Cold War : The Labour Government and East-West politics, 1964 - 1970
The then Labour government's efforts to promote East-West detente and to improve Anglo-Soviet relations from 1964 to 1970 have been la...
Harold: The King Who Fell At Hastings
Harold : The King Who Fell at Hastings
Harold Godwinson, King of England, was unable to defend his realm from William the Conqueror's invading Norman army in 1066. The Normans wreaked havoc across the country and change...
Having It So Good
Having It So Good
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessy's "Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties" captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the shadow of war into growing...
Health, Medicine And The Sea
Health, Medicine, and the Sea : Australian Voyages 1815 - 1860
During the nineteenth century, over 1.5 million migrants set sail from the British Isles to begin new lives in the Australian colonies. Health, medicine and...
Henrietta Maria
Henrietta Maria
At the heart of the English Civil War stands the wife of Charles I, Henrietta Maria. She came to England in 1625 at the age of fifteen, undermined by her greedy French entourage, blocked by the forceful ...
Henry III: The Great King England Never Knew It Had
Henry III : The Great King England Never Knew It Had
Henry III (1207-72) reigned for 56 years, the longest-serving English monarch until the modern era. Although knighted by William Marshal, he was no warrior king like ...
Henry IV
Henry IV
Henry IV (1399-1413), the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his death, aged forty-five, when he was succeed...
Henry The Young King 1155-1183
Henry The Young King
This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conqu...
Henry V New Interpretations
Henry V : New Interpretations
Henry V (1413-22) is widely acclaimed as the most successful late medieval English king. In his short reign of nine and a half years, he re-imposed the rule of law, made the crown solvent, ...
Henry V: The Conscience Of A King
Henry V : The Conscience of a King
More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects' welfare Shakespeare'...
Henry VI
Henry VI : A Good Simple and Innocent Man
Succeeding to the throne at the age of only nine months, Henry VI had a turbulent reign: he inherited a war with France and, in time, found himself at war with his own nobles. J...
Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses
Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou & The Wars of the Roses
Henry VI (1422-61), a man 'more given to God and devout prayer than handling worldly and temporal things', was the third, and least successful, Lancastrian king of Eng...
Henry VII: The Turdor Dynasty's Greatest King
Henry VII : The Maligned Tudor King
Henry Tudor has been called the most unlikely king of England. Yet his rise from obscurity was foretold by the bards, and the familial bloodbath of the Wars of the Roses by 1485 left ...
Henry VIII
Henry VIII : The Decline and fall of a Tyrant
The Tudors retained only a precarious grip on the crown of England, founded on a title that was both tenuous and legally flimsy. This left them preoccupied by two major obse...
Henry VIII And The English Reformation
Henry VIII and the English Reformation
Abandoning the traditional narrative approach to the subject, Richard Rex presents an analytical account which sets out the logic of Henry VIII's shortlived Reformation. Starting w...
Henry VIII And The Men Who Made Him
Henry VIII And The Men Who Made Him
'An outstanding work of historical artistry, a brilliantly woven and pacy story of the men who surrounded, influenced and sometimes plagued Henry VIII.' Alison WeirHenry VIII is well ...
Hesitant Comrades
Hesitant Comrades : The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement
Geoffrey Bell's Hesitant Comrades is the first published history of the policies, actions and attitudes of the British working class towards the I...
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Heyday: The 1850's And The Dawn Of The Global Age
Heyday : The 1850s and the Dawn of the Golden Age
'Excellent ...This is narrative history of the highest quality' Andrew Lycett, Sunday Telegraph 'Wonderfully engrossing and intelligent ...clever and entertaining' Domin...
High Minds: The Victorians And The Birth Of Modern Britain
High Minds : The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain
Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind. Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by...
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