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Tracing Your Nonconformist Ancestors
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
We all have Nonconformist ancestors. In the mid-nineteenth century almost half of the English population were Nonconformists. And there were very few villages where there was not at least one Nonconformist chapel. Local and family historians need to be aware of the diversity of Nonconformity, and...
by Timothy Venning
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Continuing his exploration of the alternative paths that British history might so easily have taken, Timothy Venning turns his attention to the Hundred Years War between England and France. Could the English have won in the long term, or, conversely, have been decisively defeated sooner?
Among...
Compacts and Cosmetics
Beauty from Victorian Times to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
A delightfully illustrated history of makeup and the beauty business.
Cosmetics go all the way back to ancient times. In this book, an expert in vintage accessories tells the story of beauty products from the nineteenth century to the present, revealing how both makeup and the women who wear...
The Real Falstaff
Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years’ War
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
‘That trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swolen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree-ox with the pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years... wherein...
British Battles of the Crimean Wars 1854-1856
Despatches from the Front
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The Crimean War was the most destructive armed conflict of the Victorian era. It is remembered for the unreasoning courage of the Charge of the Light Brigade, for the precise volleys of the Thin Red Line and the impossible assaults upon Sevastopol's Redan. It also demonstrated the inefficiency and...
by Catherine Curzon
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
As the glittering Hanoverian court gives birth to the English Georgian era, a golden age of royalty dawns in Europe. Houses rise and fall, births, marriages and scandals change the course of history and in France, Revolution stalks the land.
Peep behind the shutters of the opulent court of...
by John D Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The concluding part of John D Grainger's history of the Seleukids traces the tumultuous last century of their empire. In this period it was riven by dynastic disputes, secessions and rebellions, the religiously-inspired insurrection of the Jewish Maccabees, civil war and external invasion from Egypt...
Ancient Dynasties
The Families that Ruled the Classical World, circa 1000 BC to AD 750
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Ancient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first offers analysis and discussion of various features of the ruling dynasties (including the leading families of republican Rome). It examines patterns,...
Lieutenant General Sir Samuel Auchmuty 1756–1822
The Military Life of an American Loyalist and Imperial General
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Samuel Auchmuty was born in New York in 1756\. During the American Revolution his remained loyal to King George and he joined the British 45th Foot in 1777. After the war he remained in British service, campaigned in many parts of the world and rose through the ranks. Despite a varied and distinguished...
France at Bay 1870-1871
The Struggle for Paris
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
The Franco-Prussian War did not end with the catastrophic French defeat at Sedan on 1 September 1870 when an entire French army surrendered, the Emperor Napoleon III was captured and his regime collapsed. The war went on for another five agonizing months, and resolved itself into a contest for Paris...
Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II
Downfall of a King’s Favourite
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of ‘the greatest villain of the fourteenth century’, his dazzling rise as favorite to the king and his disastrous fall.
Born in the late 1280s, Hugh married King Edward I of England’s eldest granddaughter when he was a teenager....
Gaius Marius
The Rise and Fall of Rome's Saviour
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Gaius Marius was one of the most remarkable and significant figures of the late Roman Republic. At a time when power tended to be restricted to a clique of influential families, he rose from relatively humble origins to attain the top office of consul. He even went on to hold the post an unprecedented...
by Nick Holland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Guy Fawkes, born in York in 1570, is one of the key figures in British history, taking a central role in a plot that would have destroyed the ruling class and changed the nation forever. Today protesters wear his mask, families burn his effigy, and he is an instantly recognizable name and face. But...
by Geoffrey Hindley
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Great sieges changed the course of medieval history, yet siege warfare, the dominant military activity of the period, is rarely given the attention it deserves. Geoffrey Hindley's highly readable new account of this vital but neglected aspect of medieval warfare looks at the subject from every angle....