Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
by Stephen Budiansky
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How an ingenious Elizabethan courtier invented modern espionage.
Sir Francis Walsingham's official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England's first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely...
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A History of Wales
by John Davies
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Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales....
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The Private Passions of Bonnie Prince Charlie
by Hugh Douglas
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The author re-examines the life of the Scottish hero whose flawed character and romantic frustrations influenced the history of Scotland and England....
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Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical W
by Kathryn Shevelow
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Charlotte Charke's father, Colley Cibber, was one of the eighteenth-century's great actor/playwrights--and it was thought that the comedically gifted young Charlotte would follow in his footsteps at the legendary Drury Lane. However, Charlotte's habit of...
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Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire (Profiles in History)
by Clare Pettitt
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When the American reporter Henry Morton Stanley stepped out of the jungle in 1871 and doffed his pith helmet to the Scottish missionary-explorer Dr. David Livingstone, his greeting was to take on mythological proportions. But do any of us really know...
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The Kindness of Sisters: Annabella Milbanke and the Destruction of the Byrons
by David Crane
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David Crane teaches English literature in London. He is the author of Lord Byron’s Jackal: A Life of Edward John Trelawny. He lives in northwest Scotland....
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Con Men and Cutpurses: Scenes from the Hogarthian Underworld (Penguin Classics)
by Lucy Moore
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This enthralling collection takes readers deep into the murky underworld of eighteenth-century England, bringing it to life in the racy idiomatic language of the time through memoirs, newspaper articles, satires, and ballads. The historical writings in...
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Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin
by Susan Nagel
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Nagel tells the captivating and irresistible story of Mary Nisbet, whose life and letters give readers an intimate and astonishing insider's look into the British aristocracy during the Romantic era....
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Hurricane Hits England
by Onyekachi Wambu
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In June 1948, the SS Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, England, carrying with it the first wave of young immigrants from the Caribbean. Whatever hopes and fears those young men and women entertained about life in their new home, their arrival marked a...
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Five Days in London: May 1940 (Yale Nota Bene)
by John Lukacs
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The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940, altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of...
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Churchill: Visionary, Statesman, Historian
by John Lukacs
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In previous books Lukacs has told the story of Churchill's titanic struggle with Adolf Hitler in the early days of World War II. Now he turns his attention to Churchill the man and visionary statesman. Each chapter of this book provides an essential...
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Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England
by Lita Ros Betcherman
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The lives of two dazzling aristocratic sisters, Lucy and Dorothy Percy, present a perfect window into the world of political unrest and social intrigue in seventeenth-century English society. The sisters' breeding, beauty, and cunning made them among the...
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Queen Victoria's Secrets
by Adrienne Munich
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< P> -- < I> Nineteenth Century Literature< /I> < /P>...
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The Roosevelts and the Royals: Franklin and Eleanor, the King and Queen of England, and the Friendship That Changed History
by Will Swift
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Advance Praise "Fascinating and well researched.... Dr. Swift is the first to concentrate on this unusual subject with such a wealth of sympathetic detail." – Sarah Bradford, author of "America’ s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,...
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The First Lady Diana: Lady Diana Spencer (1710-1735)
by Victoria Massey
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...miscarriages; her early death are all chronicled in this deeply researched and empathetic biography. This first Lady Diana was a captivating, caring beauty whose untimely death, after such a short, vivacious life, was deeply......
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