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The Seymours of Wolf Hall
A Tudor Family Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Although the Seymours arrived with the Normans, it is with Jane, Henry VIII’s third queen, and her brothers – Edward, Duke of Somerset, and Thomas, Lord Seymour of Sudeley – that they became prominent. Jane bore Henry his longed-for son, Edward VI, and both her brothers achieved prominence through...
Edward II
The Unconventional King
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in English history. His wife took a lover and...
Owain Glyndŵr - The Story of the Last Prince of Wales
The Story of the Last Prince of Wales
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
If it had not been for Owain Glyndŵrs 15-year struggle against overwhelming odds, the Welsh would not have survived as Europes oldest nation. His war is the defining era in the history of Wales.
Yet Glyndŵr is hardly known a cultured, literate warrior who was never betrayed or captured and...
Jonathan Wild
Conman and Cutpurse
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Jonathan Wild (born c.1683), probably Britain's most well-known criminal of the 18th century, was known as the director of a 'corporation of thieves'. He learned his 'trade' while serving a sentence in a debtor's prison, and established a curious reputation as 'Thief Taker General of Great Britain...
Isabella of France
The Rebel Queen
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Isabella of France married Edward II in January 1308, and afterwards became one of the most notorious women in English history. In 1325, she was sent to her homeland to negotiate a peace settlement between her husband and her brother Charles IV, king of France. She refused to return. Instead, she...
by Hugh Llewelyn
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Hugh Llewelyn has travelled throughout Britain to gather this collection of his photographs of the diesel shunters. In addition to the main classes deployed by British Railways from the 1940s up to the present time, he also covers many of the rarer engines to be found working the docks and industrial...
by Kevin Derrick
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Looking Back at Stanier Locomotives is a photographic album depicting the designs of Sir William Arthur Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from the 1930s. With an extensive selection of colour photographs taken during the 1950s and 1960s, this volume covers...
Margaret of York
The Diabolical Duchess
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The amazing life of Margaret of York, the woman who tried to overthrow the Tudors. Reared in a dangerous and unpredictable world Margaret of York, sister of Richard III, would become the standard bearer of the House of York and 'The menace of the Tudors'. This alluring and resourceful woman was Henry...
George and Robert Stephenson
The Railway Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times. They carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed, transforming the pace and style of everyday life. We owe them to two men who, father and son, can lay claim to be the most important engineers of their time, George...
Katharine of Aragon
The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's First Unfortunate Wife
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
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 and revolutionary times and her personal drama was played out against dramas of European significance....
The Impossible Bourbons
Europe's Most Ambitious Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
This traces the initially slow rise of the family from Bourbon in the Massif Central which as a result of tenacity, ambition and good marriages came to win the crowns first of France, then Spain and finally Naples and Sicily. It looks at the diverse characters who headed up the family at various times,...
Anne Boleyn
The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's most notorious wife
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Ever since she first appeared in the Tudor court, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second queen, has been a mystery and a source of controversy. Even her birth is shrouded in obscurity; both year and place are the subject of debate. Was she beautiful, as those who fell under her spell believed, or was she...
Elizabeth Woodville - A Life
The Real Story of the 'White Queen'
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV, mother of Elizabeth of York and the Princes in the Tower, and grandmother of Henry VIII, has been vilified and defended in turn. Was she a cunning enchantress, an ambitious advancer of her family’s fortunes, or a courageous and tragic figure who lost husbands,...
In Bed with the Tudors
The Sex Lives of a Dynasty from Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Learn what went on behind closed doors in the Tudor court. Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on their shoulders. Sex and childbirth were quite literally a matter of life or death for the Tudors - Elizabeth of York died in childbirth, two of Henry...