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Brand: Duke University Press Books
Winner of the 2002 Berkshire Prize, presented by the Berkshire Conference of Women HistoriansFabricating Women examines the social institution of the seamstresses' guild in France from the time of Louis XIV to the Revolution. In contrast with previo..
35.25£
This edited collection focuses on the negotiation of national, geographic and cultural identities during the Second World War among the constituent countries of the United Kingdom. Adopting a four nations approach, it contributes to our understandin..
67.18£
Brand: Freelance Academy Press
Recorded over six centuries ago, the teachings of the 14th-century Master-at-Arms Johannes Liechtenauer have been given new life by a world-wide community of modern swordsmen and women, fascinated by the elegance, efficiency and depth of his unique ..
53.48£
Hubert de Burgh rose from obscure beginnings to become one of the most powerful men in England. He loyally served first King John and then the young Henry III and played a crucial role in saving the Plantagenet dynasty when it was at its most vulner..
19.71£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author's book on Florence will also be at once a history and a guide book and w..
27.66£
Brand: John Murray Press
'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, ..
16.08£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
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 Catho..
14.33£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The new research here covers a number of aspects of the politics and culture of fourteenth-century England, including religious culture and institutions as illustrated in the cult of Thomas of Lancaster, preaching to women in thelater fourteenth cen..
90.10£
Brand: Harvard University Press
The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with three highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry.Livius Andronicus (born ca. 292 BC) was regarded by the Romans as the founder of Latin li..
22.69£
Brand: Pan Macmillan
An authoritative history of the French nation that can be read for novelistic pleasure, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Discovery of France and Parisians. This is a ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative book about Fran..
31.82£
Brand: Orion
'A captivating biography ... This rollicking story is packed with anecdotes' The Times'I can't suppose that there has been a better English biography of Francis, or indeed is likely to be one' Catholic HeraldFrancis I was inconstant, amorous, hot-he..
17.04£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
'Highly readable and deeply researched' - Andrew Roberts 'Masterful ... brilliantly brings to life one of the most complex characters of modern European history' - Sunday Telegraph'It is sure to be the standard English-language account for many year..
22.26£
Brand: US Naval Institute Press
This book is the first comprehensive listing in English of the over 1400 warships that were added to the official French navy fleet list between 1 January 1859 and World War I. It includes everything from the largest battleships to a small, armored ..
98.49£
Brand: Princeton University Press
A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from h..
29.83£
ISBN: 9780957558113Publisher: Heritage MattersImprint: Heritage MattersPublished date: 22 Nov 2020DEWEY: 338.47790942414DEWEY edition: 23Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 344Weight: 875gHeight: 297mmWidth: 210mmSpine width: 19mm..
65.03£
Patente du roi de la Grande-Bretagne pour la confirmation de l'antiquité de la noblesse de MM. Irland; avec une attestation faite sur les lieux et la traduction; avec une autre patente du roi de France, ensemble l'arrêt de vérification de la cour de..
6.65£
George I was not the most charismatic of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in England but he was probably the most important. He was certainly the luckiest.Born the youngest son of a landless German duke, he was taken by repeated strokes of go..
9.11£
Brand: Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
Number 7 in the Luftwaffe Profile Series describes the design and use of the Heinkel He 60. ISBN: 9780887409226Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.Imprint: Schiffer MilitaryPublished date: 15 Jan 1997DEWEY: 623.7467DEWEY edition: 20Language: English..
13.64£
Brand: Random House
A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspectiveHenrietta Maria, Charles I's queen, is the most reviled consort to have worn the crown of Britain's three kingdoms...
30.45£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
At the heart of the English Civil War stands the wife of Charles I, Henrietta Maria. She came to England in 1625 at the age of fifteen, undermined by her greedy French entourage, blocked by the forceful Duke of Buckingham and weighed down by instruc..
16.75£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackHenry II (1154-89) through a series of astonishing dynastic coups became the ruler of an enormous European empire. One of the most dynamic, re..
11.38£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
'Most contemporaries would have argued that it was a king's job to put in peril his soul for the good of his Church and of his people. But Henry was too determined to live a life of a saint'Henry III, the son of King John, was catapulted onto the th..
9.11£
Brand: Random House
Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and dangerous-courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal biography of this charismatic monarch been se..
16.30£
Brand: Orion
The Tudors retained only a precarious grip on the crown of England, founded on a title that was both tenuous and legally flimsy. This left them preoccupied by two major obsessions: the necessity for a crop of lusty male heirs to continue the bloodli..
15.80£