Authors
- Nicholas Brooks
- Patrick Wormald
RRP: £12.93
Price: £14.92
Review Development of the Anglo-Saxon State / Sussex Publications:
Creator: Anna Massey
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-09-16
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.28
Review This Sceptred Isle: Julius Caesar to William the Conqueror 55BC-1087 Vol 1 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Anna Massey
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-09-16
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.89
Review This Sceptred Isle: The Making of the Nation 1087-1327 Vol 2 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 1982-12
RRP: £12.93
Price: £12.93
Review Henry VII / Sussex Publications:
Creator: Timothy West
Publication date: 2000-10-02
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.99
Review A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? - 3000 BC-AD 1603 Vol 1 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:What do you get when you combine the resources and ethos of the BBC with the literary panache of one of the world's best narrative historians? The answer is Simon Schama's History of Britain, the first volume of which accompanies the BBC television series of the same name. In a beautifully written and thoughtfully crafted book, studded with striking portraits, pictures and maps, Schama, the bestselling author of books on European cultural history such as The Embarrassment of Riches and Citizens, as well as 1999's Rembrandt's Eyes, has managed to be both conventional and provocative. He tells the official version of Britain's island story-from Roman Britain, through the Norman conquest, the struggles of the Henrys and Richards with their bolshie barons and cautious clerics, Edward I and the subjugation of Wales, King Death (the plague), and on to the Henrician reformation, before closing with the remarkable reign of the virgin queen, Elizabeth I. While sticking to a script familiar to anyone who sat up and listened in history lessons at school, Schama brings it all alive, with memorable prose-Simon de Montfort's rebel parliament is described as inaugurating the "union between patriotism and insubordination"; with Henry VIII, Schama says, "you could practically smell the testosterone". And with fine sensitivity too, particularly on the symbolism of buildings, memorials, language and ceremonies, and on the complex relations between England and her Celtic and Catholic neighbours. If history must have gloss, then let it be written and presented like this. -Miles Taylor.
Publication date: 1982-12
RRP: £12.93
Price: £14.92
Review New Arts for Old 1100-1480: Medieval Music / Sussex Publications:
Authors
- Sawyer Peter
- Peter Sawyer
- Frank Barlow
RRP: £12.93
Price: £12.93
Review Norman Conquest / Sussex Publications:
Creator: Isla Blair
Publication date: 2003-03-17
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.81
Review Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens / HarperCollins Audio:Jane Dunn's double biography Elizabeth and Mary takes as its rich and explosive subject matter the ultimately fatal relationship between Queen Elizabeth I of England and her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots. Throughout much of the second half of the 16th century, these two women found themselves queens of their kingdoms and locked in a battle for possession of the British Isles, which only ended with Mary's eventual downfall and execution at Elizabeth's hands in 1586. As Dunn points out in her meticulous and compelling recreation of the complex relationship between the two women, "from that one act of regicide, a queen killing a fellow queen, has spun a mythology of justification, romance, accusation, and blame that retains its force right to the present day. " Her approach attempts to avoid myth and romance and understand the complex bond that existed between the two women. Elizabeth, the apparent victor, "was haunted by a deep-rooted insecurity as to her own legitimacy", while Mary was pursued by claims of sexual excess and immersion in murderous plots against husbands and enemies, variously seen as "a wronged Madonna or a murderous jezebel. " Dunn elegantly follows the ups and downs of both monarchs as they strive for political power. Mary's tumultuous reign as Queen of Scotland is particularly well handled, as is Elizabeth's agonised vacillation over her decision to execute Mary. In the end, death triumphed over both, and ensured that each was "elevated to an idealised majesty" for very different reasons. Dunn has marshalled an impressive body of evidence that never overwhelms this psychologically nuanced account of these two remarkable women. -Jerry Brotton.
Authors
- Danny Danziger
- John Gillingham
Publication date: 2003-06-19
Dewey code: 941
Price: £9.99
Review 1215: The Year of Magna Carta / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Publication date: 2004-09-06
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.39
Review The Stormin' Normans (Horrible Histories) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Robert Powell
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-09-16
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.22
Review This Sceptred Isle: The Black Prince to Henry VIII 1327-1547 v.3: The Black Prince to Henry VIII 1327-1547 Vol 3 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-10-07
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.98
Review The Terrible Tudors (BBC Radio Collection: Horrible Histories) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 1982-12
RRP: £12.93
Price: £14.92
Review Musicks Feaste, 1480-1600: Music of the Renaissance / Sussex Publications:
Authors
- Christopher Haigh
- G.R. Elton
RRP: £12.93
Price: £14.92
Review Tudor Regime Reconsidered / Sussex Publications:
Authors
- A.G.R. Smith
- Joel Hurstfield
RRP: £12.93
Price: £14.92
Review Elizabethan England / Sussex Publications:
Authors
- Danny Danziger
- John Gillingham
Publication date: 2004-01
RRP: £36.95
Price: £36.95
Review 1215: The Year of Magna Carta / Chivers Audio Books:
Publication date: 1982-12
RRP: £12.93
Price: £14.92
Review Social Change in the Sixteenth Century / Sussex Publications:
| Models & Brands:
Development of the Anglo-Saxon State, This Sceptred Isle: Julius Caesar to William the Conqueror 55BC-1087 Vol 1 (BBC Radio Collection), This Sceptred Isle: The Making of the Nation 1087-1327 Vol 2 (BBC Radio Collection), Henry VII, A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? - 3000 BC-AD 1603 Vol 1 (BBC Radio Collection), New Arts for Old 1100-1480: Medieval Music, Norman Conquest, Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens, 1215: The Year of Magna Carta, The Stormin' Normans (Horrible Histories), This Sceptred Isle: The Black Prince to Henry VIII 1327-1547 v.3: The Black Prince to Henry VIII 1327-1547 Vol 3 (BBC Radio Collection), The Terrible Tudors (BBC Radio Collection: Horrible Histories), Musicks Feaste, 1480-1600: Music of the Renaissance, Tudor Regime Reconsidered, Elizabethan England, 1215: The Year of Magna Carta, Social Change in the Sixteenth Century |
