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Just as this book is being published, Elizabeth II will become the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her ...
William IV, the 'Sailor King', reigned for just seven years. Rash and impetuous as a young man, he was sent to join the navy by ...
Known as 'the anarchy', the reign of Stephen (1135-1141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal flaw in the powerful Norman ...
William II (1087-1100), or William Rufus, will always be most famous for his death- killed by an arrow while out hunting, perhaps through accident or ...
The maps featured provide fascinating insights into topics such as: the development of the Clyde and its shipbuilding industry, the villages which were gradually subsumed ...
In the early 1800s, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke ...
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The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the spread of Perestroika throughout the former Soviet bloc ...
The rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's masterpiece La traviata ...
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written by ...
Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king's son and a mother with ties to the ...
Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human ...
Long before her successful marriage to Prince Albert, Princess Victoria had an affair with the dashing Scottish 13th Lord Elphinstone. After the liaison was exposed ...
