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George II (Penguin Monarchs)

Norman Davies
George II Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141978437

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George II (Penguin Monarchs) by Norman Davies Pdf

From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George II George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to Britain for the first time when he was thirty-one. He had a terrible relationship with his father, George I, which was later paralleled by his relationship to his own son. He was short-tempered and uncultivated, but in his twenty-three-year reign he presided over a great flourishing in his adoptive country - economic, military and cultural - all described with characteristic wit and elegance by Norman Davies. (George II so admired the Hallelujah chorus in Handel's Messiah that he stood while it was being performed - as modern audiences still do.) Much of his attention remained in Hanover and on continental politics, as a result of which he was the last British monarch to lead his troops into battle, at Dettingen in 1744.

Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs)

Piers Brendon
Edward VIII Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Piers Brendon
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241196427

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Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs) by Piers Brendon Pdf

'After my death,' George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself within twelve months.' The forecast proved uncannily accurate. Edward VIII came to the throne in January 1936, provoked a constitutional crisis by his determination to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and abdicated in December. He was never crowned king. In choosing the woman he loved over his royal birthright, Edward shook the monarchy to its foundations. Given the new title 'Duke of Windsor' and essentially sent into exile, he remained a visible skeleton in the royal cupboard until his death in 1972 and he haunts the house of Windsor to this day. Drawing on unpublished material, notably correspondence with his most loyal (though much tried) supporter Winston Churchill, Piers Brendon's superb biography traces Edward's tumultuous public and private life from bright young prince to troubled sovereign, from wartime colonial governor to sad but glittering expatriate. With pace and panache, it cuts through the myths that still surround this most controversial of modern British monarchs.

Henry I (Penguin Monarchs)

Edmund King
Henry I Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Edmund King
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141978994

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Henry I (Penguin Monarchs) by Edmund King Pdf

'To be a medieval king was a job of work ... This was a man who knew how to run a complex organization. He was England's CEO' The youngest of William the Conqueror's sons, Henry I came to unchallenged power only after two of his brothers died in strange hunting accidents and he had imprisoned the other. He was destined to become one of the greatest of all medieval monarchs, both through his own ruthlessness, and through his dynastic legacy. Edmund King's engrossing portrait shows a strikingly charismatic, intelligent and fortunate man, whose rule was looked back on as the real post-conquest founding of England as a new realm: wealthy, stable, bureaucratised and self-confident.

George III (Penguin Monarchs)

Jeremy Black
George III Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241248119

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George III (Penguin Monarchs) by Jeremy Black Pdf

King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and loyalty and is now best known for two reasons: as a villainous tyrant for America's Founding Fathers, and for his madness, both of which have been portrayed on stage and screen. In this concise and penetrating biography, Jeremy Black turns away from the image-making and back to the archives, and instead locates George's life within his age: as a king who faced the loss of key colonies, rebellion in Ireland, insurrection in London, constitutional crisis in Britain and an existential threat from Revolutionary France as part of modern Britain's longest period of war. Black shows how George III rose to these challenges with fortitude and helped settle parliamentary monarchy as an effective governmental system, eventually becoming the most popular monarch for well over a century. He also shows us a talented and curious individual, committed to music, art, architecture and science, who took the duties of monarchy seriously, from reviewing death penalties to trying to control his often wayward children even as his own mental health failed, and became Britain's longest reigning king.

George V (Penguin Monarchs)

David Cannadine
George V Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141976907

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George V (Penguin Monarchs) by David Cannadine Pdf

For a man with such conventional tastes and views, George V had a revolutionary impact. Almost despite himself he marked a decisive break with his flamboyant predecessor Edward VII, inventing the modern monarchy, with its emphasis on frequent public appearances, family values and duty. George V was an effective war-leader and inventor of 'the House of Windsor'. In an era of ever greater media coverage--frequently filmed and initiating the British Empire Christmas broadcast--George became for 25 years a universally recognised figure. He was also the only British monarch to take his role as Emperor of India seriously. While his great rivals (Tsar Nicolas and Kaiser Wilhelm) ended their reigns in catastrophe, he plodded on. David Cannadine's sparkling account of his reign could not be more enjoyable, a masterclass in how to write about Monarchy, that central--if peculiar--pillar of British life.

George VI

Sarah Bradford
George VI Book PDF

Author : Sarah Bradford
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241968239

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George VI by Sarah Bradford Pdf

The definitive biography of George VI, the hero of The King's Speech George VI reigned through taxing times. Acceding to the throne upon his brother's abdication, he was immediately confronted with the turmoil in European politics leading up to the Second World War, then the War itself, followed by a period of austerity, social transformation and loss of Empire. George was unprepared for kingship, suffering from a stammer which could make public occasions very painful for him. Moreover he had grown up in the shadow of his brother, a man who had been idolized as no royal prince has been, before or since. However, as Sarah Bradford shows in this sympathetic biography, although George was not born to be king, he died a great one. 'A triumph ... Sarah Bradford looks set to inherit Lady Longford's mantle as royal biographer supreme' Mail on Sunday 'Lucid, convincing and admirably fair ... George VI has been fortunate in his biographer' Philip Ziegler 'Vivid, thorough and enjoyable' Independent Sarah Bradford is a historian and biographer. Her books include Cesare Borgia (1976), Disraeli (1982), winner of the New York Times Book of the Year, Princess Grace (1984), Sacherevell Sitwell (1993), Elizabeth: A Biography of Her Majesty the Queen (1996), America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (2000), Lucrezia Borgia (2005) and Diana (2007).She lives in London and is married to the 8th Viscount Bangor. She is currently working on a full scale biography of Queen Victoria.

Henry V (Penguin Monarchs)

Anne Curry
Henry V Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Anne Curry
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141978727

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Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) by Anne Curry Pdf

Foremost medieval historian Anne Curry offers a new reinterpretation of Henry V and the battle that defined his kingship: Agincourt Henry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble. As heir to the throne, he had been a failure, cast into the political wilderness amid rumours that he planned to depose his father. Despite a complete change of character as king - founding monasteries, persecuting heretics, and enforcing the law to its extremes - little had gone right since. He was insecure in his kingdom, his reputation low. On the eve of his departure for France, he uncovered a plot by some of his closest associates to remove him from power. Agincourt was a battle that Henry should not have won - but he did, and the rest is history. Within five years, he was heir to the throne of France. In this vivid new interpretation, Anne Curry explores how Henry's hyperactive efforts to expunge his past failures, and his experience of crisis - which threatened to ruin everything he had struggled to achieve - defined his kingship, and how his astonishing success at Agincourt transformed his standing in the eyes of his contemporaries, and of all generations to come.

George V (Penguin Monarchs)

David Cannadine
George V Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141988726

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George V (Penguin Monarchs) by David Cannadine Pdf

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback For a man with such conventional tastes and views, George V had a revolutionary impact. Almost despite himself he marked a decisive break with his flamboyant predecessor Edward VII, inventing the modern monarchy, with its emphasis on frequent public appearances, family values and duty. George V was an effective war-leader and inventor of 'the House of Windsor'. In an era of ever greater media coverage - frequently filmed and initiating the British Empire Christmas broadcast - George became for 25 years a universally recognised figure. He was also the only British monarch to take his role as Emperor of India seriously. While his great rivals (Tsar Nicolas and Kaiser Wilhelm) ended their reigns in catastrophe, he plodded on. David Cannadine's sparkling account of his reign could not be more enjoyable, a masterclass in how to write about Monarchy, that central - if peculiar - pillar of British life.

George I (Penguin Monarchs)

Tim Blanning
George I Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Tim Blanning
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141976846

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George I (Penguin Monarchs) by Tim Blanning Pdf

George I was not the most charismatic of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in England but he was probably the most important. He was certainly the luckiest. Born the youngest son of a landless German duke, he was taken by repeated strokes of good fortune to become, first the ruler of a major state in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and then the sovereign of three kingdoms (England, Ireland and Scotland). Tim Blanning's incisive short biography examines George's life and career as a German prince, and as King. Fifty-four years old when he arrived in London in 1714, he was a battle-hardened veteran, who put his long experience and deep knowledge of international affairs to good use in promoting the interests of both Hanover and Great Britain. When he died, his legacy was order and prosperity at home and power and prestige abroad. Disagreeable he may have been to many, but he was also tough, determined and effective, at a time when other European thrones had started to crumble.

William II (Penguin Monarchs)

John Gillingham
William II Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : John Gillingham
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141978567

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William II (Penguin Monarchs) by John Gillingham Pdf

William II (1087-1100), or William Rufus, will always be most famous for his death: killed by an arrow while out hunting, perhaps through accident or perhaps murder. But, as John Gillingham makes clear in this elegant book, as the son and successor to William the Conqueror it was William Rufus who had to establish permanent Norman rule. A ruthless, irascible man, he frequently argued acrimoniously with his older brother Robert over their father's inheritance - but he also handed out effective justice, leaving as his legacy one of the most extraordinary of all medieval buildings, Westminster Hall.

George IV (Penguin Monarchs)

Stella Tillyard
George IV Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Stella Tillyard
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141978857

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George IV (Penguin Monarchs) by Stella Tillyard Pdf

George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad. 'The days are very long when you have nothing to do' he once wrote plaintively, but he did his best to fill them with pleasure - women, art, food, wine, fashion, architecture. He presided over the creation of the Regency style, which came to epitomise the era, and he was, with Charles I, the most artistically literate of all our kings. Yet despite his life of luxury and indulgence, George died alone and unmourned. Stella Tillyard has not written a judgemental book, but a very human and enjoyable one, about this most colourful of all British kings.

Charles II (Penguin Monarchs)

Clare Jackson
Charles II Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Clare Jackson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141979779

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Charles II (Penguin Monarchs) by Clare Jackson Pdf

Charles II has always been one of the most instantly recognisable British kings - both in his physical appearance, disseminated through endless portraits, prints and pub signs, and in his complicated mix of lasciviousness, cynicism and luxury. His father's execution and his own many years of exile made him a guarded, curious, unusually self-conscious ruler. He lived through some of the most striking events in the national history - from the Civil Wars to the Great Plague, from the Fire of London to the wars with the Dutch. Clare Jackson's marvellous book takes full advantage of its irrepressible subject.

James I (Penguin Monarchs)

Thomas Cogswell
James I Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Thomas Cogswell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141980423

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James I (Penguin Monarchs) by Thomas Cogswell Pdf

James's reign marked one of the very rare major breaks in England's monarchy. Already James VI of Scotland and a highly experienced ruler who had established his authority over the Scottish Kirk, he marched south on Elizabeth I's death to become James I of England and Ireland, uniting the British Isles for the first time and founding the Stuart dynasty which would, with several lurches, reign for over a century. Indeed his descendant still occupies the throne. A complex, curious man and great survivor, James drastically changed court life in London and presided over such major projects as the Authorized Version of the Bible and the establishment of English settlements in Virginia, Massachusetts, Gujarat and the Caribbean. Although he failed to unite England and Scotland, he insisted that ambassadors acknowledge him as King of Great Britain and that vessels from both countries display a version of the current Union Flag. He was often accused of being too informal and insufficiently regal - but when his son, Charles I, decided to redress these criticisms in his own reign he was destroyed. How much of the roots of this disaster were to be found in James's reign is one of the many problems dramatized in Thomas Cogswell's brilliant and highly entertaining new book.

Art and Identity

Viccy Coltman
Art and Identity Book PDF

Author : Viccy Coltman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108417686

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Art and Identity by Viccy Coltman Pdf

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

Aethelred the Unready (Penguin Monarchs)

Richard Abels
Aethelred the Unready Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Richard Abels
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141979502

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Aethelred the Unready (Penguin Monarchs) by Richard Abels Pdf

A major new title in the Penguin Monarchs series In his fascinating new book in the Penguin Monarchs series, Richard Abels examines the long and troubled reign of Aethelred II the 'Unraed', the 'Ill-Advised'. It is characteristic of Aethelred's reign that its greatest surviving work of literature, the poem The Battle of Maldon, should be a record of heroic defeat. Perhaps no ruler could have stemmed the encroachment of wave upon wave of Viking raiders, but Aethelred will always be associated with that failure. Richard Abels is Professor Emeritus at the United States Naval Academy. He is the author of Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England and Lordship and Military Obligation in Anglo-Saxon England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.