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1936 год. Декабрь. Англия. Новоиспеченный король Эдуард VIII отрекается от престола ради любимой женщины. Их отношения сопровождались многочисленными скандалами, которые д...
Discover the remarkable life of Thomas Aquinas...
Thomas Aquinas is known as a great theologian, and his treatises and theories are studied by clergy all over the world. ...
Inside you will read about...
- The Early Life of Oliver Cromwell
- The Road to Influence
- The First English Civil War
- Cromwell the Politician
- Commonwealth in En...
From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the World has ever seen. Roy J...
Elisabeth I., eigentlich Elizabeth Tudor, auch bekannt unter dem Namen The Virgin Queen oder The Maiden Queen (""Die jungfräuliche Königin""), (1533-1603), war von 1558 bi...
The Great Famine
The Great Famine which afflicted Ireland from 1845 to 1849 was one of the most catastrophic events in Europe during the nineteenth century. More than one...
A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya
As part of the Allied forces, thou...
This is the remarkable story of how the two most powerful women in Britain at the time met and disliked each other on sight. For over a decade they quietly waged a war aga...
The life of Diana, Princess of Wales, has never before been told with such insight and authority. This book is a subtle, honest portrait, without the bias and exaggeration...
Henry IV (1399–1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his deat...
From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles—just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first o...
This is the story of what Rudyard Kipling called ‘the savage wars of peace’. Throughout Queen Victoria’s long reign there was not a single year in which, somewhere in the ...
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breed...
Last year, the telly-watching public was gripped by "Downton Abbey" - the most successful British period drama in years and the number - one most-watched new drama program...
Вот уже более трехсот лет династия Виндзоров восседает на троне Великобритании. Наряду со славными традициями, в истории этой монархии немало тайн или событий, которые как...
Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father died when she was four and as Matthew Dennison relates Victoria came to depend on her youn...
