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Catherine Parr
Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The sixth wife of Henry VIII was also the most married queen of England, outliving three husbands before finally marrying for love. Catherine Parr was enjoying her freedom after her first two arranged marriages when she caught the attention of the elderly Henry VIII.
She was the most reluctant...
Four Queens and a Countess
Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, Mary I, Lady Jane Grey and Bess of Hardwick: The Struggle for the Crown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
When Mary Stuart was forced off the Scottish throne she fled to England, a move that made her cousin Queen Elizabeth very uneasy. Elizabeth had continued the religious changes made by her father and England was a Protestant country, yet ardent Catholics plotted to depose Elizabeth and put Mary Stuart...
by Timothy Venning
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The kingdom of Scots was the last of the non-Anglo-Saxon states of Britain to survive as a political entity. Alone of the ‘Celtic’ nations, it was not absorbed into England by conquest. James VI of Scotland came to the throne of England in 1603, and when union with England finally came in 1707...
Royal Babies
A History 1066-2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Babies are born every day, but only once or twice in a lifetime, a child arrives who will inherit the throne. This summer, the nation watched as Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, delivered our future king. There have been predictions, expectations and a flurry of media attention around the new parents...
by Geoff Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
In April 1199 Richard the Lionheart lay dying in his mother's arms, victim of a well-aimed crossbow bolt and of an incompetent surgeon. Magnaminously, Richard pardoned the skilful archer, but ordered the slaughter of the rest of his enemies in the town he was besieging. A few days later as Richard's...
by Janette McCutcheon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Many rare images are used, telling the story of these important royal occasions from the twelfth century to the present day. Royal Weddings are always a time for public celebration; the build-up, the pomp and circumstance of the day, the dress, the sense of occasion. Author Janette McCutcheon takes...
by Oliver Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Oliver Thomson's book The Other Kaisers is one of the first books to look at the proliferation of German dynasties throughout Europe. Aimed at the general reader The Other Kaisers will appeal to anyone with an interest in biography and history, particularly royal history. The book's underlying theme...
Arthur and the Kings of Britain
The Historical Truth Behind the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Written in 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) purported to chronicle the British monarchy from the arrival of the Trojan Brutus, grandson of Aeneas, through to the seventh century AD when the Anglo-Saxons had taken control of the land. The...
Royal Exiles
From Richard the Lionheart to Charles II
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
‘I know there are but few steps between the prisons and graves of princes’ Charles I The experience of exile and captivity, usually in war, was not uncommon for medieval kings and princes. Many knew the joy of survival followed by the frustration of being caged; some tried to govern from exile;...
by Margaret Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
'The warrant of maid of honour to the Queen induces me to think that Your Majesty has some regard for me, since it gives me the means of seeing you oftener ...' Anne Boleyn to Henry VIII, c. 1527 Intimate Letters of England's Queens opens with the letters of Catherine of Aragon to her daughter, Mary,...
Royal Sex
The Scandalous Love Lives of the British Royal Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The current Prince of Wales, our future King, has married his mistress and she will become, barring an accident, our next Queen Consort. This is a unique situation and one that is unlikely to be repeated. Of course, only seventy years ago, his great uncle was in a not dissimilar predicament which...
by Margaret Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
‘… because I cannot in person be in your presence, I send you the thing which comes nearest that is possible; that is to say, my picture, and the whole device, which you already know of, set in bracelets, wishing myself in their place when it pleaseth you.’ Henry VIII in a letter to Anne Boleyn,...
Clough and Walker
Forest's Greatest Managers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
21 March 1935 was an important day in the history of Nottingham Forest Football Club. It was the date that one Brian Howard Clough was born. Following a prolific goalscoring career with Middlesbrough and Sunderland, Clough retired from playing to manage Hartlepool United. Eleven years later he was...
by Rob Burman
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Since he first appeared on the scene in Detective Comics No. 27 in May 1939, Batman has been a massive influence on popular culture. He has inspired comics, blockbuster films and television series and was second only to Superman in the top comic book heroes of all time. Alongside all of these, he...