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'There is nothing new under the sun', a phrase ascribed originally to King Solomon, applies to the present book, with echoes of 'modern' themes exposing ...
A revisionist history showing a gradual build-up of opposition and a drift to conflict which few expected or wanted. And this was despite growing Stuart ...
Maids, Wives, Widows is a lively exploration of the everyday lives of women in early modern England, from 1540-1740. The book uncovers details of how ...
The Tudor period is familiar to British public in reading and viewing in books, TV series and film - list is endless, from Shakespeare and Fletcher ...
Like Cromwell and Wolsey before him, William Paget came from nowhere to become one of Henry VIII's most powerful 'new men'. After serving as ...
Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman
'A powerful illumination of a lost world that is nevertheless part of ...
Stephen. John. Edward II. Richard II. Richard III. These five are widely viewed as the worst of England's medieval kings. Certainly, their reigns were ...
'Highly entertaining' - The Times
'A hymn book to the London street' - TLS
'an artful recipe book for that most crucial of human achievements: good cities ...
As the daughter and cousin of queens and the granddaughter and niece of kings, Lady Margaret Douglas was an integral part of the Tudor royal ...
The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium ...
The execution of King Charles I is one of the well-known facts of British history, and an often-quoted snippet from our past. He lost the ...
A portrait of Jane Austen's England told through the career paths of younger sons-men of good family but small fortune
In Regency England the ...
'An engaged, informed companion for the armchair time traveller...captures the thrill and the difficulties of interpreting the past'. TLS
'Duncan has written a masterpiece ...
Captain Bligh's Journal is the most important of all of the primary documents relating to the infamous mutiny on the Bounty. Needless to say ...
This book teases out the similarities and differences between 'the sweat' and its better-known, if equally feared, contemporary infectious disease, bubonic plague. Among the array ...