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God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the
A thrilling account of treachery, loyalty and martyrdom in Elizabethan England from an exceptional new writer. As darkness fell on the evening of Friday, 28 October 1588, just weeks after...
The Gunpowder Plot: Classic Histories Series
Every child has heard of Guy Fawkes and will most likely have watched a 'guy' being burnt on a bonfire and fireworks lighting up the night sky on Bonfire Night....
Battles of the English Civil War
The book titled Battles of the English Civil War by the author Austin Woolrych. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Cavaliers and Roundheads
A social and military history of the Civil War that split the country 350 years ago. In a field in Nottingham in the summer of 1642, King Charles I watched...
Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain's First King
A BBC History magazine, Esquire, Historia magazine and Waterstones History Book of the Year 'James comes alive in full flamboyance ... Russell expertly weaves the bedchamber gossip into the tapestry...
Versailles: Science and Splendour
A richly illustrated book that breaks new ground in exploring the relationship between science and power at the French court of Versailles - published to accompany the exhibition at London's...
A Play of Passion: Life of Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh is well-know as an explorer, pirate, lover, poet, courtier, philosopher and political prisoner, a man of timeless fascination. An essential part of the nation's history he embodies...
Prince Rupert: Portrait of a Soldier
This is a romantic and colourful story of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, an extraordinary military commander. General Kitson discusses Rupert's boyhood study of fortifications, the early campaigns, his military...
Pepys and his Contemporaries
Samuel Pepys's Diary stands with Shakespeare and the King James Bible as an indisputable treasure of English literature. As a picture of England, and especially of London, in the age...
Sycorax: a captivating reimagining of Shakespeare's most powerful
Born of the sun and moon, shaped by fire and malady, comes a young woman whose story has never been told . . . They call her Sycorax. Seer. Sage....
Sycorax: a captivating reimagining of Shakespeare's most powerful
Born of the sun and moon, shaped by fire and malady, comes a young woman whose story has never been told . . . They call her Sycorax. Seer. Sage....
Blood's Campaign: There can only be one victor . . .
In the theatre of war there can only be one victor . . . August 25, 1689 The English army has surrounded Carrickfergus in Ireland. The brilliant strategist and gunner...
The Bleak Midwinter
The fifth John Grey historical mystery 1668. John Grey is now a Justice of the Peace and lives in the manor house he has inherited on his mother's death with...
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch
When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars...
The Honey and the Sting
An exquisite historical thriller from the author of the electrifying The Poison Bed Three sisters. Three secrets. Three ways to fall . . . Forcibly seduced by George Villiers, Duke...
The Shining Inheritance - Italian Painters at the Qing Court,
During Qing dynasty China, Italian artists were hired through Jesuit missionaries by the imperial workshops in Beijing. In The Shining Inheritance: Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699-1812 , Marco...
Brief Lives
The book titled Brief Lives by the author John Aubrey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Images from the Storm: 300 Civil War Images by the Author of Eye of
The Civil War legacy of Robert Knox Sneden is an unparalleled treasure trove of words and pictures. The publication of the bestselling "Eye of the Storm" in the fall of...
Fanfare for Elizabeth
An imaginative reconstruction of the mind of the young girl who was to become Queen Elizabeth I of England, that effulgent, daunting, and perplexing figure, one of the most influential...
Renaissance
After a thousand years of magic and mysticism, the Renaissance re-kindled the desire of mankind to understand themselves and the world around them. This volume examines the Renaissance, its myths,...
Short History Italy
The book titled Short History Italy by the author Hearder. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice
This wide-ranging study vividly presents the major events that took place in Venice in the 1570s, culminating in a deadly outbreak of the plague that claimed one-quarter of the Venetian...
Freedom
This volume focuses on the history of the United States through stories of human freedom aspired to and won, beginning with the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and culminating in...
Civilization of Europe
This is a rich portrait of Europe and its civilization in the 16th century - the moment when "Europe" first became an entity in the minds of its own inhabitants....
John Aubrey
Like Pepys and Evelyn, John Aubrey is not only part of the landscape of the English past, but one of the eminences from which we view it. His fame rests...
Storm from the East: From Genghis Khan to Khubilai Khan
While Europe was still divided into a patchwork of feudal states, there emerged from the East a vast empire that eventually spanned the breadth of Asia. It had been forged...
The Lion from the North: Volume 1, The Swedish Army of Gustavus
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The book describes and analyses the early modern Swedish army, with a particular emphasis on the reforms introduced by King Gustavus Adolphus before and during the Thirty Years War. Furthermore,...
Girl With a Pearl Earring
A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JESSIE BURTON OVER FIVE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE 'A veritable work of art' Rose Tremain 'A truly magical experience' Guardian 'Triumphant' Wall Street...
Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
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Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. These were the words uttered by the seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Grey as...
Following in the Footsteps of Oliver Cromwell: A Historical Guide to
Oliver Cromwell is one of the most important figures in British History. He was both soldier and politician and the only non-Royal ruler of Britain in a thousand years. His...
Battle of Killiecrankie 1689: The Last Act of the Killing Times
The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 1746, is deservedly remembered as a national...
Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain's First King
A BBC History magazine, Esquire, Historia magazine and Waterstones History Book of the Year 'James comes alive in full flamboyance ... Russell expertly weaves the bedchamber gossip into the tapestry...
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the
'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...
1666: Plague, War and Hellfire
1666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country...
Cromwell's Convicts: The Death March from Dunbar 1650
On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar - a victory that is often regarded as his finest hour...
The Making of Modern Russia
The book titled The Making of Modern Russia by the author Lionel Kochan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of
The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure...
Mary Tudor: England's First Queen
Mary Tudor was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England. Her accession, in the summer of 1553, took place against the odds and it was, in many ways,...
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England
Winner of THE HW FISHER BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012 SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL and SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF...
After the Fire: London Churches in the Age of Wren, Hooke, Hawksmoor
London was but is no more!' In these words diarist John Evelyn summed up the destruction wreaked by the Great Fire that swept through the City of London in 1666....
Magick City: Travellers to Rome from the Middle Ages to 1900, Volume
The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled witty, profound and endlessly entertaining. Drawing on French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Scandinavian and American sources,...
Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743
Every painted work that is on display in the Uffizi Gallery, The Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo is included in the book, plus many or most of the...
Inigo: The Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English
The first and greatest of the English Renaissance architects, Inigo Jones was an unlikely candidate to change the landscape of British style and design. Yet this self-taught son of a...
Architecture without Kings: Rise of Puritan Classicism Under Cromwell
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This illustrated book provides a complete assessment of the architecture of Cromwell's England. Key to the puritan minimalist classicism of the time was the work of Inigo Jones, and this...
The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England
While the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s resulted in the destruction of much of England's built fabric, it was also a time in which many new initiatives emerged....
Worldly Goods: New History of the Renaissance
The flowering of civilization, the rebirth of classical scholarship and the serendipitous coming together of some of the greatest artists the world has ever known: this is the traditional view...
Defining the Renaissance 'Virtuosa': Women Artists and the Language of
Defining the Renaissance "Virtuosa" considers the language of art in relationship to the issues of gender difference through an examination of art criticism written between 1550 and 1800 on approximately...