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Mackie J.D., A History of Scotland — 1984 (Pelican Books)
A remarkable history of a nation
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Kenyon J.P., Stuart England — 1980 (The Pelican History of England)
Stuart English is the subject of cintinual and active research, and Professor Kenyon's survey - the first new volume to be added for many years to the famous Pelican History of England series - presents a unified picture of the contentious century, as well as featuring a full and up-to-date critical bibliography.
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Wilson D., A Brief History of Henry VIII King. Reformer and Tyrant — 2009
Henry VIII changed the course of English life more completely than any monarch since the Conquest. In the portraits of Holbein, Henry Tudor stands proud as one of the most powerful figures in renaissance Europe. But is the portrait just a bluff? In his new book, Derek Wilson explores the myths behind the image of the Tudor Lion. He was the monarch that delivered the Reformation to England yet Luther called him 'A fool, a liar and a damnable rotten worm'. As a young man he gained a reputation as an intellectual and fair prince yet he ruled the nation like a tyrant. He treated his subjects as cruelly as he treated his wives. Based on a wealth of new material and a life time's knowledge of the subject Derek Wilson exposes a new portrait of a much misunderstood King.Praise for Derek Wilson's previous works: The Uncrowned Kings of England: 'Stimulating and authorative' - John Guy. 'Masterly. [Wilson] has a deep understanding of...characters, reaching out accross the centuries' - Sunday Times. Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man: 'Fascinating' - Sarah Bradford, Daily Telegraph. 'Highly readable... The most accurate and vivid portrayal to date' - Alison Weir.
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Hoskins W.G., The Making of the English Landscape — 1983 (Pelican Books)
This book is a pioneer study which traces the chronological development of the English landscape from pre-Roman days to the eve of the Black Death, onwards to the Industrial Revolution and up to the present day. With the help of photographs and charts Professor Hoskins discusses the origins of Devonshire hedge-banks and lanes, the ruined churches in Norfolk and lost villages in Lincolnshire, Somerset's marshland ditches, Cornwall's remote granite farmsteads, and the lonely pastures of upland Northamptonshire.
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Hibbert C., Edward VII. A Portrait — 1982
"Among the most versatile of living historians, he combines impeccablenscholarship with a liveliness of style that lures the reader from page to page" - Kenneth Rose in the Sunday Telegraph
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Useful Toil. Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s — 1977
Useful Toil opens up a vein of social history in which the participants speak for themselves. The book assembles twenty-seven extracts from autobiographies and diaries of working people between the 1820s and the 1920s. Their stories provide the antithesis of that kind of history which concentrates on "great names" and ignores the mass of mankind.
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Alcock L., Arthur s Britain. Histoty and Archaeology A D 367-634 — 1983 (Pelican Books)
This remarkable book assembles all that is known or can be deduced about the most shadowy period of British history since the Roman occupation and about its legendary hero. The author of it is the archaeologist who directed the famous excavations at Cadbury Castle in Sonerset, originally identified with Camelot by Leland. L.Alcock sifts history from myth to create a convincing picture of life between the fourth and seventh centuries, when Celtic Britain was abandoned by the legions to the Picts, Scots and Anglo-Saxons.
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Иванов А. Ю., Морская битва двух империй. Нельсон против Бонапарта — 2013 (History files)
Наполеона и Нельсона объединяло редкое свойство человеческой натуры - роковая целеустремленность. Они считали себя инструментами Провидения и видели перед собой великие цели. Наполеон хотел установить всемирную диктатуру, адмирал Нельсон дважды разрушал его планы. В 1798 году он уничтожил французский флот при Абукире, что предопределило неудачу Египетской экспедиции генерала Бонапарта, а в 1805 году ценою жизни спас Англию от угрозы вражеского вторжения. Автор книги рассказывает увлекательную историю отношений двух великих людей на фоне многолетней войны Франции и Великобритании и динамичных событий на просторах Мирового океана
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Кларк С., Англия и Франция: мы любим ненавидеть друг друга — 2012
Анализируя историю англо-французских отношений, влюбленный во Францию британский писатель делает интересное открытие: одни и те же ключевые события рассматриваются соседями по Ла-Маншу с диаметрально противоположных берегов. Пытаясь с истинно британской педантичностью (и щедрой долей иронии) восстановить историческую справедливость, Стефан Кларк прекрасно понимает, что вызовет у французов немалое раздражение. Поэтому заранее извиняется и предупреждает, что тысячелетняя история обид еще не окончена
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Wood M., The Story of England — 2011
The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has an ancient church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. It has experienced departing Romans, Saxon and Viking immigrants, Norman conquerors; the Black Death, the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution; and, its people have gone off to the Empire and to fight in two world wars. Enlisting the villagers themselves - who dug test pits in their gardens in search of Roman pottery, were DNA tested to examine their Viking origins and offered up their family collections of photos and documents - and using the archives of the village housed at Merton College Oxford (an archive unique in western Europe going back 700 years), Michael Wood tells the incredible story of the village over 2000 years. This is an account of England told not from the top but from the bottom - a story of Anglo-Saxon peasants, medieval reeves, Tudor vicars, Victorian frame-work knitters and First World War soldiers. This is a people's history of England, told through the history of one small community.
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Usher G., Dictionary of British Military History — 2006
From the invasion of Britain by the Danes through the battle of Hastings, Agincourt and Waterloo up to the present day, this fascinating dictionary includes entries on battles, campaigns and famous commanders, as well as ranks, regiments, uniforms and weapons. The reader will find an outline of the British army since its formation in the 17th century, together with brief histories of battles and biographies of great military leaders. A handy reference source for all levels of student or enthusiast, including the general reader of historical reference and anyone with an interest in the British military
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Claydon T., Europe and the Making of England, 1660-1760 — 2007 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
Wide-ranging and original re-interpretation of English history and national identity during the vital century (1660-1760) in which the country emerged as the leading world power and developed its peculiarly free political culture. Disputing the insular and xenophobic image of the English in the period, and denying that this was an age of secularisation, Tony Claydon demonstrates instead the countrys active participation in a protestant international and its deep attachment to a European Christendom. He shows how these outward-looking identities shaped key developments by generating a profound sense of duty to Gods foreign faithful. The English built a world-beating state by intervening abroad to defend Christendom and the reformation, and their politics were forged as they debated different understandings of these international entities. England may have diverged from continental norms in this period but this book shows that it did so because of its intense religious engagement with that continent.
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Mason T., Sport and the Military. The British Armed Forces 1880-1960 — 2010
On battleships, behind the trenches of the Western Front and in the midst of the Desert War, British servicemen and women have played sport in the least promising circumstances. When 400 soldiers were asked in Burma in 1946 what they liked about the Army, 108 put sport in first place - well ahead of comradeship and leave - and this book explores the fascinating history of organised sport in the life of officers and other ranks of all three British services from 1880-1960. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book examines how organised sport developed in the Victorian army and navy, became the focus of criticism for Edwardian army reformers, and was officially adopted during the Great War to boost morale and esprit de corps. It shows how service sport adapted to the influx of professional sportsmen, especially footballers, during the Second World War and the National Service years
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Diana at 50 — 2011 (LIFE)
She was,indeed, the People's Princess. She belonged to them, and was beloved by them. For some reason that is difficult to pin down, this pretty young woman of the artistocracy who married into royalty and might have then disappeared behind palace walls instead connected with common folk in a unique and extraordinary way. The people cared for and cared about Diana, and when she was killed in a tragic car accident in Paris 14 years ago, the outpouring of grief-not just in England, but arround the world-was overwhelming. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Diana Spencer's birth, LIFE has assembled a celebratory chronicle of her too short but constantly vibrant time in the public eye. In family photos, we revisit Diana's youth and then, quickly enough, there is her courtship by Prince Charles. In this book, LIFE revisits all of that and then parses Diana's legacy, catching up with her charismatic sons today-the elder of whom, William, has just taken his own bride. Kate Middleton now wears the ring of the woman who would have been her mother-in-law, and Kate will one day be queen-the very thing that was predicted for Diana, not so very long ago, when she was the People's Princess.
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Tames R., England's Forgotten Past. The Unsung Heroes & Heroines, Valiant Kings, Great Battles & Other Generally Overlooked Episodes in our Nation's Glorious History. with 70 illustrations — 2010
With such a long and rich history, its not surprising that some of it gets lost or overlooked over time. In this fascinating collection of historical moments, Richard Tames takes a look at some of the more colourful characters and historical events in ...
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Джонсон Б., Мне есть что вам сказать — 2012 (Чтения Дюаристов)
Борис Джонсон — пожалуй, самый необычный мэр в мире. Представитель британского истеблишмента, консерватор до мозга костей, он ведет юмористическую телепередачу и разъезжает по Лондону на велосипеде. Любимый журналист Маргарет Тэтчер, известный под кличкой Клоун, был отличником в Итоне и блестяще защитил диплом в Оксфорде. Эта книга — подборка лучших публикаций за 10 лет, из которой читатель несомненно узнает много нового для себя об Англии и мире. Об особенностях национальной охоты и об интригах в Парламенте. О войне в Ираке и переизбрании Буша. О причинах терроризма и рождении евро. О пользе алкогольных напитков и о стоимости недвижимости в Лондоне. О России и ходовых качествах суперкаров. О бомбардировках Сербии и Джереми Кларксоне. А главное — все, о чем пишет Борис Джонсон, он знает не понаслышке
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Best N., The Kings and Queens of England — 1995
Spanning ten great dynasties of England's monarchs, The Kings and Queens of England presents portraits and potted biographies of England's monarchs. Spanning from the Normans through to the House of Windsor, this exquisite little book captures the personalities beneath the crowns and records the landmarks, traditions and events of each reign.
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Ackroyd P., London Under. The secret history beneath the streets — 2011
London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, imaginative, oozing short study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheaters to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts, and modern tube stations. The depths below are hot, warmer than the surface, and this book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures, real and fictional, that dwell in darkness—rats and eels, monsters and ghosts. When the Underground—s Metropolitan Line was opened in 1864, the guards asked for permission to grow beards to protect themselves against the sulfurous fumes, and named their engines after tyrants — Czar, Kaiser, Mogul — and even Pluto, god of the underworld. To go under London is to penetrate history, to enter a hidden world. As Ackroyd puts it, —The vastness of the space, a second earth, elicits sensations of wonder and of terror. It partakes of myth and dream in equal measure.—
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Kynaston D., City of London. The history — 2011
The 'Square Mile', London's financial powerhouse, rose to prominence with the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. David Kynaston's vibrant history brings this world to life, taking us from the railway boom of the 1830s to the 'Golden Age', when the legendary gold standard reigned supreme. Between the two World Wars the City was affected by the Wall Street Crash, pressured by politicians, trade unions and industrialists, but by the end of the twentieth century it had regained a precarious global might. Woven throughout are the stories of four individuals who shaped the City in different ways — Nathan Rothschild, Ernest Cassel, Montagu Norman and Siegmund Warburg. But the realm of great bankers and brokers is also the workplace of young clerks throwing paper darts, typists bringing in their sandwiches, and sad racketeers watching aghast as the markets fall. Above all, we see what it was like to work in the City — the dress codes, eating habits, work hours, pay, humour, changing architecture and language that forged the unique culture of the Square Mile. Richly entertaining, full of vivid anecdotes, this is a story of booms, busts and bankruptcies — from the Kaffir boom to the Marconi scandal, the 'Big Bang' deregulation of 1986, and the Barings crash in 1995 — bringing us to the brink of the modern age. David Knayston's groundbreaking history of the "City of London", published in four volumes between 1994 and 2001, is a modern classic. Skillfully edited into a single volume by David Milner, it tells a story as dramatic as any novel, while explaining the mysteries of the financial world in a way that we can all understand.
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Musgrove D., 100 places that made Britain — 2011
In 100, carefully selected places, "BBC History Magazine" editor Dave Musgrove takes us on an unforgettable historical tour through British history, from the Roman invasion to 1960s Liverpool. Musgrove has asked foremost British historians such as Dominic Sandbrook, to nominate the sites they believe to be the most important in our history, and has travelled to each place to provide a visitor's point of view alongside the captivating stories that make each one great. Covering the length and breadth of the British mainland and two thousand of years of history, "100 Places that Made Britain" visits renowned sites such as the Tower of London and Runnymede, as well as less well-known places like Rushton Triangular Lodge in Northamptonshire - a three-sided, three-themed house built during the Reformation and designed to represent the Holy Trinity - and Jarrow, home of the first chronicler of Anglo-Saxon Britain, The Venerable Bede. Each essay adds another layer to our understanding of Britain's story, whether it be an advance in politics, religion, law or culture. Bringing the vast history of this small island to life, "100 Places that Made Britain" is a captivating historical compendium that will have every reader criss-crossing the country to explore its myriad treasures.
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