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The Greatest Knight
The Greatest Knight : The Remarkable Life Of William Marshall The Power Behind Five English Thrones
William Marshal was the true Lancelot of his era - a peerless warrior and paragon of chivalry -yet over the centuries, ...
The Greedy Queen
The Greedy Queen
Full of original research, Annie Gray's first book considers Britain's most iconic monarch from a new perspective, telling the history of British dining culture along the way.
From Dr Annie Gray, pres...
The Happiest Days Of Their Lives?
Happiest Days of Their Lives
What do you think of when you hear the phrase ‘nineteenth-century schooling’? The bullies of Tom Brown’s Schooldays? The cane-wielding headmaster of Dotheboys Hall in Nicholas Nickleby...
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The History Of England Part II: Civil War
Civil War : The History of England Volume III
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizab...
The History of the Channel Tunnel
The History of the Channel Tunnel
The Channel Tunnel, has been one of histories most protracted and at times acrimonious, construction projects. From the paranoia of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when there wa...
The History of William Marshal
History of William Marshal : The True Story of England's Greatest Knight
The History of William Marshal is the earliest surviving biography of a medieval knight - indeed it is the first biography of a layman in the vern...
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The History Thieves
The History Thieves : Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation
In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed, creating offences of 'disclosure of information' and 'breach of official trust'. It limited and ...
The Hollow Crown
The Hollow Crown
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought to th...
The House of Beaufort
The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line That Captured The Crown
The Wars of the Roses saw family fight family over the greatest prize - the throne of England. But what gave the eventual victor of these brutal and comple...
The Housekeeper's Tale
Housekeeper's Tale : The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House
Working as a housekeeper was one of the most prestigious jobs a nineteenth and early twentieth century woman could want - and also one of the tough...
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The Ingenious Victorians
Ingenious Victorians : Weird and Wonderful Ideas from the Age of Innovation
We all know that some of the greatest inventions came from the Victorian age, the successors of which are still with us today. But this book is...
The Invisible Woman
The Invisible Woman : The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
"The Invisible Woman" by Claire Tomalin is the acclaimed story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens. Winner of the NCR Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize...
The Jane Austen Marriage Manual
The Jane Austen Marriage Manual
A strict code of conduct governed courtship and marriage in Regency England during the period in which Jane Austen's novels were set, broadly 1796 to 1816. At a time when womens' only rea...
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The King Is Dead
The King Is Dead : The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII
On 28 January 1547, the sickly and obese King Henry VIII died at Whitehall. Just hours before his passing, his last will and testament had been read, stamped ...
The King's Assassin
The King's Assassin : The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I
The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber in 1615, the young ga...
The King's Grave
The King's Grave : The Search for Richard III
The official inside story of the life, death and remarkable discovery of history's most controversial monarch. On 22 August 1485 Richard III was killed at Bosworth Field, th...
The King's Pearl
The King's Pearl : Henry VIII and his Daughter Mary
Mary Tudor has always been known as `Bloody Mary', the name given to her by later Protestant chroniclers who vilified her for attempting to re-impose Roman Catholicism...
The King's Revenge
King's Revenge : Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History
When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, on...
The Kitchener Enigma
The Kitchener Enigma : The Life and Death of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum 1850-1916
In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener's latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate...
The Last Dance
The Last Dance : 1936 The Year Our Lives Changed
'The year has, indeed, begun in gloom. The King ill, and Kipling dead ...' so wrote the diarist Chips Channon in 1936 as George V lay on his deathbed at Buckingham Palace...
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