Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-09-09
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.82
Review The Duchess of Windsor and Other Friends: An Illustrated Biography / Gibson Square Books Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-09-19
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £14.95
Price: £12.27
Review Henry II (Yale English Monarchs) / Yale University Press:
Creator: Derrick Murphy
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-02-28
RRP: £6.99
Price: £44.17
Review Henry VIII (Flagship Historymakers) / Collins Educational:
Publication date: 2008-11-15
RRP: £20.00
Price: £13.20
Review Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's Obsession / Amberley Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-06-06
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.45
Review The Last English King: The Life of Harold II / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: Re-issue
Publication date: 2005-09-01
Dewey code: 942.031092
Price: £8.99
Review Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England / Pimlico:Combining the pace and descriptive quality of a novel with the authority of a text book, Alison Weir's study of the revered and reviled Eleanor of Aquitaine should be valuable to anyone with an interest in medieval European history. Wife of Louis VII of France and subsequently of Henry II of England and mother of Richard the Lionheart, Eleanor played a prominent part in the politics of the 12th century. The author of a number of other books on the medieval period, Alison Weir brings all the colour and ever-present dangers of Eleanor's world to life, filling the text with absorbing background detail and revelatory contemporary anecdotes. She is concerned throughout to make critical analysis of the primary sources, the later myths about Eleanor and other modern biographies. This results in a fresh and thoughtful perspective on the energetic 82 years of the life of a determined and ambitious woman living with the sexism, excesses and violence of a society in which the word of a single man could condemn thousands to be put to death. Eleanor of Aquitaine is a vivacious but scholarly book with extensive notes and references appended, giving an objective and rich account of the staunch Eleanor, her feuding family and her complex and unstable world. -Karen Tiley Combining the pace and descriptive quality of a novel with the authority of a text book, Alison Weir's study of the revered and reviled Eleanor of Aquitaine should be valuable to anyone with an interest in medieval European history. Wife of Louis VII of France and subsequently of Henry II of England and mother of Richard the Lionheart, Eleanor played a prominent part in the politics of the 12th century. The author of a number of other books on the medieval period, Alison Weir brings all the colour and ever-present dangers of Eleanor's world to life, filling the text with absorbing background detail and revelatory contemporary anecdotes. She is concerned throughout to make critical analysis of the primary sources, the later myths about Eleanor and other modern biographies. [+]This results in a fresh and thoughtful perspective on the energetic 82 years of life of a determined and ambitious woman living with the sexism, excesses and violence of a society in which the word of a single man could condemn thousands to be put to death. Eleanor of Aquitaine is a vivacious but scholarly book with extensive notes and references appended, giving an objective and rich account of the staunch Eleanor, her feuding family and her complex and unstable world. -Karen Tiley.
Publication date: 2007-08-09
Dewey code: 941.085092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £8.57
Review Zara Phillips: The Biography: A Revealing Portrait of a Royal World Champion / Virgin Books:
Publication date: 2003-09-11
Dewey code: 942.0190922
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.85
Review The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty (The Medieval World) / Longman:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-07-02
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.46
Review The Stuart Princesses / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-11-29
RRP: £20.00
Price: £6.53
Review Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work / Ebury Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-03-23
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.96
Review Royal Blood: King Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-03-02
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £20.00
Price: £9.12
Review Stately Passions: The Scandals of Britain's Great Houses / Michael O'Mara Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-08-09
Dewey code: 942.052092
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.01
Review Henry VIII (Very Interesting People) / OUP Oxford:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-08-19
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.44
Review Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen / The History Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-03-02
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.20
Review Kings and Queens of England and Scotland / Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-09-01
Dewey code: 942.055092
Price: £8.99
Review Elizabeth, the Queen / Pimlico:Elizabeth I survived to become queen by being very careful. The fact that she avoided being used or implicated by the various plots against her radically Protestant brother Henry VIII, and fanatically Catholic sister Mary I, was a triumph in itself, and she never forgot the lesson that survival needed to be her first goal. What many of her contemporaries took for irritating womanly indecision was a refusal to be hurried; some situations change and some go away, but you can never escape the consequences of your actions-she protected Mary, Queen of Scots for as long as she could. Alison Weir's new biography covers the facts well enough, but she understands Elizabeth's situation imaginatively, and that is what makes her book special. Elizabeth not only overcame the misogyny of the world she lived in-she exploited it; Weir's own feminism gives her insights into the canny role-playing that was so crucial to Elizabeth's chameleon nature. Everything had to be policy from wigs and fans to rack and gallows; this is a biography which understands not only what happened, but how it seemed and felt at the time. This is an excellent conclusion to Weir's series of Tudor biographies-popular history which brings good sense to bear on scholarly fact. -Roz Kaveney.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1995-08-02
Dewey code: 941.061
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.33
Review James I (Seminar Studies In History) / Longman:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-01-05
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.37
Review The Last Days of Henry VIII: Conspiracy, Treason and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant / Phoenix:
Publication date: 2003-03-27
RRP: £25.00
Price: £10.00
Review Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII / Chatto & Windus:David Starkey's massive Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII follows on the huge commercial success of Elizabeth. Like its predecessor, Starkey's latest book mixes its author's scholarly erudition with a mischievous eye for a contemporary comparison or salacious soundbite. Starkey's topic is, as he admits from the outset, "one of the world's great stories"-the lives, and deaths, of the six wives of King Henry VIII. The story has been told before, but as Starkey points out, it has been wrapped in the romantic myth of 19th-century historiography. Starkey's virtue lies in his return to the archives to unearth new evidence for his story of Henry's wives. The result is a weighty blockbuster that will annoy the purists but delight the popular reader. Henry is portrayed as a fairytale prince gradually transformed into a "prematurely aged and bloated monster". Starkey concludes that "like us, he expected marriage to make him happy", but this simple desire had increasingly disastrous consequences. Henry worked his way through a series of wives from Catherine of Aragon to Catherine Parr who, according to Starkey, encompass "the full range of female stereotypes: the Saint, the Schemer, the Doormat, the Dim Fat Girl, the Sexy Teenager, and the Bluestocking". While this tends to flatten out the complexity of many of Henry's wives, there is plenty on the cataclysmic impact of the Reformation, new evidence on Henry's first wife's marriage to his brother, and a reconsideration of Henry's final wife, Catherine Parr, as "the first Queen of the Age of Print", to keep even the most sceptical reader happy. [+]-Jerry Brotton.
Publication date: 2008-08-01
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.42
Review Lost Prince / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
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