The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
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The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
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The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family you've never heard of - the dashing and daring Dudleys . . .________
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The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660
Nothing in English history has so imprinted itself on the nation's memory as the upheavals of the mid-seventeenth century. And nothing has so divided posterity. This short book provides a crisp and lu…
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Who taught Catherine of Aragon English, helped Anne Boleyn get dressed in the morning, discussed sex with Anne of Cleves, or pushed religious revolution with Kathryn Parr?
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Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more …
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The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
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