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William III & Mary II (Penguin Monarchs)

Jonathan Keates
William III Mary II Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Keates
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141976884

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William III & Mary II (Penguin Monarchs) by Jonathan Keates Pdf

William III (1689-1702) & Mary II (1689-94) (Britain's only ever 'joint monarchs') changed the course of the entire country's history, coming to power through a coup (which involved Mary betraying her own father), reestablishing parliament on a new footing and, through commiting Britain to fighting France, initiating an immensely long period of warfare and colonial expansion. Jonathan Keates' wonderful book makes both monarchs vivid, the cold, shrewd 'Dutch' William and the shortlived Mary, whose life and death inspired Purcell to write some of his greatest music.

William and Mary (Penguin Monarchs)

Jonathan Keates
William and Mary Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Keates
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141976877

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William and Mary (Penguin Monarchs) by Jonathan Keates Pdf

William III (1689-1702) & Mary II (1689-94) (Britain's only ever 'joint monarchs') changed the course of the entire country's history, coming to power through a coup (which involved Mary betraying her own father), reestablishing parliament on a new footing and, through commiting Britain to fighting France, initiating an immensely long period of warfare and colonial expansion. Jonathan Keates' wonderful book makes both monarchs vivid, the cold, shrewd 'Dutch' William and the shortlived Mary, whose life and death inspired Purcell to write some of his greatest music.

William II (Penguin Monarchs)

John Gillingham
William II Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : John Gillingham
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 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.

Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs)

Douglas Hurd
Elizabeth II Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Douglas Hurd
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141979427

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Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs) by Douglas Hurd Pdf

In September 2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Britain's longest-reigning monarch. During her long lifetime Britain and the world have changed beyond recognition, yet throughout she has stood steadfast as a lasting emblem of stability, continuity and public service. Historian and senior politician Douglas Hurd has seen the Queen at close quarters, as Home Secretary and then on overseas expeditions as Foreign Secretary. Here he considers the life and role of Britain's most greatly admired monarch, who, inheriting a deep sense of duty from her father George VI, has weathered national and family crises, seen the end of an Empire and heard voices raised in favour of the break-up of the United Kingdom. Hurd creates an arresting portrait of a woman deeply conservative by nature yet possessing a ready acceptance of modern life and the awareness that, for things to stay the same, they must change. With a preface by HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge

Henry I (Penguin Monarchs)

Edmund King
Henry I Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Edmund King
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 II (Penguin Monarchs)

Norman Davies
George II Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,9 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.

Charles II (Penguin Monarchs)

Clare Jackson
Charles II Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Clare Jackson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,7 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.

Richard II (Penguin Monarchs)

Laura Ashe
Richard II Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Laura Ashe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141979908

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Richard II (Penguin Monarchs) by Laura Ashe Pdf

Richard II (1377-99) came to the throne as a child, following the long, domineering, martial reign of his grandfather Edward III. He suffered from the disastrous combination of a most exalted sense of his own power and an inability to impress that power on those closest to the throne. Neither trusted nor feared, Richard battled with a whole series of failures and emergencies before finally succumbing to a coup, imprisonment and murder. Laura Ashe's brilliant account of his reign emphasizes the strange gap between Richard's personal incapacity and the amazing cultural legacy of his reign - from the Wilton Diptych to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales.

Henry II (Penguin Monarchs)

Richard Barber
Henry II Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Richard Barber
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141977096

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Henry II (Penguin Monarchs) by Richard Barber Pdf

Henry II (1154-89) through a series of astonishing dynastic coups became the ruler of an enormous European empire. One of the most dynamic, restless and clever men ever to rule England, he was brought down both by his catastrophic relationship with his archbishop Thomas Becket and his debilitating arguments with his sons, most importantly the future Richard I and King John. His empire may have ultimately collapsed, but in Richard Barber's vivid and sympathetic account the reader can see why Henry II left such a compelling impression on his contemporaries.

George V (Penguin Monarchs)

David Cannadine
George V Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,6 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.

Edward II (Penguin Monarchs)

Christopher Given-Wilson
Edward II Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Christopher Given-Wilson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141977973

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Edward II (Penguin Monarchs) by Christopher Given-Wilson Pdf

'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmlessness.' The reign of Edward II was a succession of disasters. Unkingly, inept in war, and in thrall to favourites, he preferred digging ditches and rowing boats to the tedium of government. His infatuation with a young Gascon nobleman, Piers Gaveston, alienated even the most natural supporters of the crown. Hoping to lay the ghost of his soldierly father, Edward I, he invaded Scotland and suffered catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Bannockburn. After twenty ruinous years, betrayed and abandoned by most of his nobles and by his wife and her lover, Edward was imprisoned in Berkeley Castle and murdered - the first English king since the Norman Conquest to be deposed.

James II (Penguin Monarchs)

David Womersley
James II Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : David Womersley
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141977072

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James II (Penguin Monarchs) by David Womersley Pdf

The short, action-packed reign of James II (1685-88) is generally seen as one of the most catastrophic in British history. James managed, despite having access to tremendous reserves of good will and deference, to so alienate his supporters that he had to flee for his life. And yet, most of that life was spent not as king but first as heir to Charles II, as Duke of York (after whom New York is named) and then in the last part of his life as the first Jacobite 'Pretender', starting a problem that would haunt Britain's rulers for generations.

William I (Penguin Monarchs)

Marc Morris
William I Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141977850

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William I (Penguin Monarchs) by Marc Morris Pdf

On Christmas Day 1066, William, duke of Normandy was crowned in Westminster, the first Norman king of England. It was a disaster: soldiers outside, thinking shouts of acclamation were treachery, torched the surrounding buildings. To later chroniclers, it was an omen of the catastrophes to come. During the reign of William the Conqueror, England experienced greater and more seismic change than at any point before or since. Marc Morris's concise and gripping biography sifts through the sources of the time to give a fresh view of the man who changed England more than any other, as old ruling elites were swept away, enemies at home and abroad (including those in his closest family) were crushed, swathes of the country were devastated and the map of the nation itself was redrawn, giving greater power than ever to the king. When, towards the end of his reign, William undertook a great survey of his new lands, his subjects compared it to the last judgement of God, the Domesday Book. England had been transformed forever.

Edward III (Penguin Monarchs)

Jonathan Sumption
Edward III Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241184219

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Edward III (Penguin Monarchs) by Jonathan Sumption Pdf

Edward III lived through bloody and turbulent times. His father was deposed by his mother and her lover when he was still a teenager; a third of England's population was killed by the Black Death midway through his reign; and the intractable Hundred Years War with France began under his leadership. Yet Edward managed to rule England for fifty years, and was viewed as a paragon of kingship in the eyes of both his contemporaries and later generations. Venerated as the victor of Sluys and Crécy and the founder of the Order of the Garter, he was regarded with awe even by his enemies. But he lived too long, and was ultimately condemned to see thirty years of conquests reversed in less than five. In this gripping new account of Edward III's rise and fall, Jonathan Sumption introduces us to a fêted king who ended his life a heroic failure.

Henry III (Penguin Monarchs)

Stephen Church
Henry III Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Stephen Church
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141978000

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Henry III (Penguin Monarchs) by Stephen Church Pdf

Henry III was a medieval king whose long reign continues to have a profound impact on us today. He was on the throne for 56 years and during this time England was transformed from being the private play-thing of a French speaking dynasty into a medieval state in which the king answered for his actions to an English parliament, which emerged during Henry's lifetime. Despite Henry's central importance for the birth of parliament and the development of a state recognisably modern in many of its institutions, it is Henry's most vociferous opponent, Simon de Montfort, who is in many ways more famous than the monarch himself. Henry is principally known today as the driving force behind the building of Westminster Abbey, but he deserves to be better understood for many reasons - as Stephen Church's sparkling account makes clear. Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a highly collectible format