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“keith dockray”

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  • Politics, Society and Homosexuality in Post-War Britain

    The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 and Its Significance

    by Keith Dockray, Alan Sutton ...
    The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 was ground-breaking in the UK and Politics, Society and Homosexuality in Post-War Britain: The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 and its Significance marks the fiftieth anniversary of its successful path to the statute book.The act was not without controversy and was fiercely fought over by the likes of Mary Whitehouse and right-wing reactionary Tories who in typical ... Read more

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  • Richard III

    From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records

    by Keith Dockray, P. W. Hammond ...
    No English king has suffered wider fluctuations of reputation than Richard III, perhaps the most controversial ruler England has ever had. Vilified by critics as a ruthless master of intrigue and a callous murderer, he has been no less extravagantly praised by defenders of his reputation against Tudor and Shakespearian charges of tyranny. Richard III: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and ... Read more

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  • Henry VIII: The Evolution of a Reputation

    by Keith Dockray, Alan Sutton ...
    No English king is more famous-or infamous! than Henry VIII, popularly celebrated as the formidable and arrogant figure portrayed by Hans Holbein the Younger, the early Tudor stud who clocked up no fewer than six wives and the proto-nationalist/imperialist ruler who sent the pope packing and inaugurated the English Reformation. As befits such a colossus, masses has been written about the king, not ... Read more

    $8.18 USD

  • Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses

    From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records

    by Keith Dockray ...
    Henry VI (1422-61), a man 'more given to God and devout prayer than handling worldly and temporal things', was the third, and least successful, Lancastrian king of England; his wife Margaret of Anjou, 'a great and strong laboured woman', became a formidable political force in her own right; and the Wars of the Roses, so dramatically portrayed by William Shakespeare as bloody dynastic struggles ... Read more

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  • William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians

    by Keith Dockray ...
    For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify Elizabeth I's occupation of the English throne; a blessing because, without Shakespeare's 8 -play Plantagenet history cycle, hardly anyone beyond specialists in the history of the period would know of their ... Read more

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    William the Conqueror was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. The descendant of Viking raiders, he had been Duke of Normandy since 1035 under the style William II. After a long struggle to establish his power, by 1060 his hold on Normandy was secure, and he launched the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The rest of his life was marked by struggles to ... Read more

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  • Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I

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  • Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution

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