Samuel Rawson Gardiner: 8 books

5 works of Samuel Rawson Gardiner English historian (1829-1902) This ebook presents a collection of 5 works of Samuel Rawson Gardiner. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: A Student's History of England – Volume I A Student's...

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I. CAUSES OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR. CHAPTER II. THE BOHEMIAN REVOLUTION. CHAPTER III. IMPERIALIST VICTORIES IN BOHEMIA AND THE PALATINATE ... CHAPTER IX. THE DEATH OF...

Samuel Rawson Gardiner was a prominent historian who specialized in 17th-century English history.  Some of Gardiner’s best known books are on historical figures such as Oliver Cromwell, and events such as The Puritan revolution and the English Civil War.  This edition of The Thirty Years’ War 1618-1648 includes a table of contents.

Oliver Cromwell, the future Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, was born at Huntingdon on April 25, 1599, receiving his baptismal name from his uncle, Sir Oliver Cromwell of Hinchingbrooke, a mansion hard by the little town. It was at Huntingdon that the father of the infant, Robert Cromwell,...

The evidence available to us appears to establish principally two points: that the true history of the Gunpowder Plot is now known to no man, and that the history commonly received is certainly untrue.

The present work is intended for such students as have already an elementary knowledge of the main facts of English history, and aims at meeting their needs by the use of plain language on the one hand, and by the avoidance, on the Other hand, of that multiplicity of details which is apt to overburden...

The New King. 1509.—Henry VIII. inherited the handsome face, the winning presence, and the love of pleasure which distinguished his mother's father, Edward IV., as well as the strong will of his own father, Henry VII. He could ride better than his grooms, and shoot better than the archers of his...