France, United Kingdom, Ireland

France, United Kingdom, Ireland
Title France, United Kingdom, Ireland PDF eBook
Author Trish Clark
Publisher Hidden Spring
Pages 364
Release 2009
Genre Convents
ISBN 9781587680571

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That Sweet Enemy

That Sweet Enemy
Title That Sweet Enemy PDF eBook
Author Robert Tombs
Publisher
Pages 816
Release 2010-12-07
Genre
ISBN 9781446426241

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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1 William IV. 1831

The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1 William IV. 1831
Title The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1 William IV. 1831 PDF eBook
Author Great Britain
Publisher Wentworth Press
Pages 476
Release 1843
Genre History
ISBN

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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Title The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1368
Release 1804
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Devil-Land

Devil-Land
Title Devil-Land PDF eBook
Author Clare Jackson
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 542
Release 2021-09-30
Genre History
ISBN 0141984589

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*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022* A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday Times A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis. As an unmarried heretic with no heir, Elizabeth I was regarded with horror by Catholic Europe, while her Stuart successors, James I and Charles I, were seen as impecunious and incompetent. The traumatic civil wars, regicide and a republican Commonwealth were followed by the floundering, foreign-leaning rule of Charles II and his brother, James II, before William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch army and a new order was imposed. Devil-Land reveals England as, in many ways, a 'failed state': endemically unstable and rocked by devastating events from the Gunpowder Plot to the Great Fire of London. Catastrophe nevertheless bred creativity, and Jackson makes brilliant use of eyewitness accounts - many penned by stupefied foreigners - to dramatize her great story. Starting on the eve of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and concluding with a not-so 'Glorious Revolution' a hundred years later, Devil-Land is a spectacular reinterpretation of England's vexed and enthralling past.

Bretons and Britons

Bretons and Britons
Title Bretons and Britons PDF eBook
Author Barry Cunliffe
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 484
Release 2021-06-10
Genre History
ISBN 0192592475

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What is it about Brittany that makes it such a favourite destination for the British? To answer this question, Bretons and Britons explores the long history of the Bretons, from the time of the first farmers around 5400 BC to the present, and the very close relationship they have had with their British neighbours throughout this time. More than simply a history of a people, Bretons and Britons is also the author's homage to a country and a people he has come to admire over decades of engagement. Underlying the story throughout is the tale of the Bretons' fierce struggle to maintain their distinctive identity. As a peninsula people living on a westerly excrescence of Europe they were surrounded on three sides by the sea, which gave them some protection from outside interference, but their landward border was constantly threatened - not only by succeeding waves of Romans, Franks, and Vikings, but also by the growing power of the French state. It was the sea that gave the Bretons strength and helped them in their struggle for independence. They shared in the culture of Atlantic-facing Europe, and from the eighteenth century, when a fascination for the Celts was beginning to sweep Europe, they were able to present themselves as the direct successors of the ancient Celts along with the Cornish, Welsh, Scots, and Irish. This gave them a new strength and a new pride. It is this spirit that is still very much alive today.

The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Title The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland PDF eBook
Author Great Britain
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Pages 1238
Release 1825
Genre Law
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