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  • The Early Oxford Press

    "The Early Oxford Press" by Falconer Madan is a comprehensive exploration of the origins and development of the printing press at Oxford University. Madan meticulously details the establishment of the press, its key figures, and the significant works produced during its early years. The book serves as a vital resource for understanding the impact of the printing revolution on academic and literary ... Leer más

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  • The Bodleian Library at Oxford

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Literary Treasures of Oxford's Historic Library

    In "The Bodleian Library at Oxford," Falconer Madan offers a rigorous exploration of one of the world's oldest libraries, combining meticulous historical research with engaging narrative prose. Set against the backdrop of the library's storied past, Madan delves into its architectural evolution, notable collections, and the influence it has exerted on scholarship. The text is framed within the ... Leer más

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    The Book that Inspired the Dig

    The Last Days of Richard III contains a new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard's last 150 days. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field, we discover a new Richard: no passive victim, awaiting defeat and death, but a king actively pursuing his own agenda.It also re-examines the aftermath of Bosworth: the treatment of Richard's body; ... Leer más

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  • A Daughter's Love

    Thomas More & His Dearest Meg

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    The Whitbread Award–winning author of Queen of Scots presents a "brilliantly observed" dual biography of Sir Thomas More and his daughter ( The New York Times).Sir Thomas More's life is well known: his opposition to Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn, his arrest for treason, his execution and martyrdom. Yet a major figure in his life—his beloved daughter Margaret—has been largely airbrushed out ... Leer más

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  • The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell

    Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

    Thomas Cromwell was a man of humble origins and outstanding intellect who rose up to become Henry VIII's chief minister and right-hand man during the English Reformation. He wielded enormous power while he retained the king's favour, but the failure of Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves, which Cromwell had arranged, led to his swift downfall and execution. In this biography, John Schofield reveals ... Leer más

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  • The Prince Who Would Be King

    The Life and Death of Henry Stuart

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  • The Lost Prince: Classic Histories Series

    The Survival of Richard of York

    de David Baldwin ...
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    Did Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the Princes on the Tower, survive his imprisonment? In this revealing new book medieval historian David Baldwin presents an original and intriguing scenario.On 27 December 1550 an old man named Richard Plantagenet was buried at Eastwell in Kent. He had spent much of his life working as a bricklayer at St John's Abbey, Colchester, but, unusually for a ... Leer más

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  • The Mysterious Mistress

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    Jane Shore often gets just a byline in history. We know her name, and that she was the mistress of a king. But who was this woman caputred for the stage by Shakespeare in Richard III, fictionalised by Jean Plaidy and others? Where did she come from? And how was it that having been mistress to the most powerful man in the land, she ended her years in prison and poverty?Jane Shore was born into a ... Leer más

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  • Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Quest for Fame

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    Charismatic, insatiable and cruel, Henry VIII was, as John Guy shows, a king who became mesmerized by his own legend - and in the process destroyed and remade England.Said to be a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most instantly recognizable of kings remains a figure of extreme contradictions: magnificent and vengeful; a devout traditionalist who oversaw a cataclysmic rupture with the church in ... Leer más

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  • The Gunpowder Plot: Classic Histories Series

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    Every child has heard of Guy Fawkes and will most likely have watched a 'guy' being burnt on a bonfire and fireworks lighting up the night sky on Bonfire Night. This book answers the questions of history that lie behind the celebrations of 5 November.Who was Guy Fawkes and how to did he come to be below the chamber of the House of Lords in the first hour of 5 November 1605? What desperation drove ... Leer más

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    Elizabeth I is perhaps England's most famous monarch. Born in 1533, the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was heir to her father's title, then disinherited and finally imprisoned by her half sister Mary. But in 1558, on Mary's death, she ascended the throne and reigned for forty-five years. Respected by her subjects and idolised by future generations, Gloriana ... Leer más

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