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Inside The Tudor Court
Inside The Tudor Court : Henry VIII and his Six Wives Through The Eyes of the Spanish Ambassador
The reports and despatches of Eustace Chapuys, Spanish Ambassador to Henry VIII's court from 1529 to 1545, have been instr...
Into The Silence : The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
Into The Silence : The Great War Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
'The price of life is death'. For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every d...
Isabella She-Wolf of France Queen of England
Isabella : She Wolf of France, Queen of England
Described by Christopher Marlowe as the 'She-Wolf of France', Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. According to popular legend, her angry ghost...
Jacobites: A New History Of The '45 Rebellion
Jacobites
The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. When Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as the Young Pretender, sailed from France to Scotland in July 1745, and with only a handful of su...
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James I
James I : Scotland's King of England
Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England's first Stuart. Yet, as this new biography demonstrates, the modern tendency to downplay his defec...
James I Scotland's King of England
James I Scotland's King of England
Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England's first Stuart. Yet, as this biography demonstrates, the modern tendency to downplay his defects and...
James I The Phoenix King
James I The Phoenix King
James's reign marked one of the rare breaks in England's monarchy. Already James VI of Scotland, he rode south on Elizabeth I's death to become James I of England and Ireland, uniting the Britis...
James II
James II : The Last Catholic King
The short, action-packed reign of James II (1685-88) is generally seen as one of the most catastrophic in British history. James managed, despite having access to tremendous reserves o...
James II King In Exile
James II : King in Exile
JAMES II was Britain's last Catholic king. The spectacular collapse of his regime in 1688 and the seizure of his throne by his nephew William of Orange are the best-known events of his reign. Bu...
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Jane Austen's England
Jane Austen's England
Jane Austen wrote about the English gentry class in the late Georgian and Regency periods (1796-1816). Her novels follow her heroines' quest for true love and fulfilment in English society during a...
Jeremy Thorpe
Jeremy Thorpe
The story of Jeremy Thorpe's rapid rise and spectacular fall from grace is one of the most remarkable in British politics. When he became leader of the Liberal Party in 1967 at the age of just thirty-seven...
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Jews in Georgian Society
Jews In Georgian Society : The Laras fo London
The extraordinary lives of the Laras of London during the Georgian period. Abraham collaborated with Pitt the Younger's Government to reduce the National Debt. Esther's hus...
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Joan Fair Maid of Kent
Joan,Fair Maid of Kent : A Fourteenth Century Princess and her World
"Anthony Goodman's brilliant yet accessible scholarship draws in the reader in the most entertaining and vibrant way. He was one of our greatest histo...
Joint Intelligence Committee
Joint Intelligence Commitee : Vol.1- From the approach of the Second World War to The Suez Crisis
Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified pape...
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Joseph Wood 1750-1821 : A Yorkshire Quaker An Introduction to his Life Ministry and Writings
Joseph Wood 1750-1821: A Yorkshire Quaker, An Introduction to His Life, Ministry & Writings
An introduction to a remarkable man who was both a true Quaker of the Quietest years and a prolific writer. Based on the conten...
Jumbo
Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation
The first comprehensive 'biography' of one of the first celebrity animals who gave us one of our favourite words. Jumbo, Victorian England's favourite elephant,...
Justice Denied
Justice Denied : Pride Prejudice and the Great Miner's Strike
TV portraits of the Miners' strike of 1984/5 stressed the violence of the pickets and responsible policing. This book challenges those images, looks at the i...
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Katherine Howard
Katherine Howard
'An impressive revisionist biography' The Times
Looming out of the encroaching darkness of the February evening was London Bridge, still ornamented with the severed heads of Thomas Culpeper and Francis...
Katherine Of Aragon
Katherine of Aragon
Katharine of Aragon was a central figure in one of the most dramatic and formative events of Tudor history - England's breach with Rome after a thousand years of fidelity. She lived through traumatic...
Katherine Swynford : The Story of John of Gaunt & His Scandalous Duchess
Katherine Swynford : The Story of John of Gaunt & His Scandalous Duchess
Katherine Synford was first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. Her charismatic lover was one of the most p...
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