Three years ago, Rishi Sunak was an unknown junior minister in the Department of Local Government. By the age of thirty-nine, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, grappling...
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История Англии
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. .История Англии
Despite their frequent visits to England, Queen Victoria never quite trusted the Romanovs. In her letters she referred to "horrid Russia" and was adamant that she did not ...
Эта книга – энциклопедия воспитания детей XIX века, где описаны реальные рекомендации, практики настоящие дети. Здесь представлены основные методы и подходы, которые у люб...
On 6th July 1868, when told of the birth of her seventh granddaughter, Queen Victoria remarked that the news was ‘a very uninteresting thing for it seems to me t...
Эрик Ларсон — американский писатель, журналист, лауреат множества премий, автор популярных исторических книг. Среди них мировые бестселлеры: “В саду чудовищ. Любовь и терр...
Капитан Роберт Фолкон Скотт (1868—1912) — фигура великая и трагическая даже по строгим меркам суровых полярных исследователей. Не в переносном, а в буквальном смысле он по...
The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced...
Of all the British monarchs who have claimed they ruled the seas, just one, King William IV, has been a truly professional seafarer.
Known as the ‘Sailor King’ in his own...
The gripping inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years—only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises
“Never again”...
Als Englands letzte Stuart-Königin 1714 kinderlos starb, erbten die Kurfürsten von Hannover die englische Krone und regierten das Inselreich 123 Jahre lang. Die Personalun...
William III & Mary II (Penguin Monarchs)
Thomas Cogswell's dramatic new biography brings James to life as a complex, learned, curious man and a great survivor, one who drastically changed court life in London and...