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English Rebels and Revolutionaries
Throughout history brave Englishmen and women have never been afraid to rise up against their unjust rulers and demand their rights. Barely a century has gone by without England …
Heroes and Villains of the British Empire
From the sixteenth until the twentieth century, British power and influence gradually expanded to cover one quarter of the world's surface. The common saying was that the sun …
English Rebels and Revolutionaries
Throughout history brave Englishmen and women have never been afraid to rise up against their unjust rulers and demand their rights. Barely a century has gone by without England …
Robin Hood
';Impressively researched . . . an extraordinary combination of biography and cultural history' from the author of Heroes and Villains of the British Empire (Midwest Book Review). …
Robin Hood
Robin Hood is a national English icon. He is portrayed as a noble robber, who, along with his band of merry men, is said to have stolen from the rich and given to the poor. His …
Discovering Robin Hood
The name of Joseph Ritson, born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1752, will be familiar to very few people. The name of Robin Hood is known the world over. Yet it was Ritson whose research …
Pandemic Obsession
Pestilence entered The ordinary pursuits of society were paralysed; all previously-formed plans of happiness, business, trade, occupation, and domestic arrangement, were checked …
The Secret History of the Court of England
The Georgian era, we are told, was a polite and commercial era. The supposedly refined aristocracy governed the nation while the bourgeoisie, at the centre of the largest empire …
Discovering Robin Hood
The name of Joseph Ritson, born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1752, will be familiar to very few people. The name of Robin Hood is known the world over. Yet it was Ritson whose research …
Pandemic Obsession
“Pestilence entered… The ordinary pursuits of society were paralysed; all previously-formed plans of happiness, business, trade, occupation, and domestic arrangement, were checked …
Heroes & Villains of the British Empire
An analysis of the builders of the British Empire, how they were represented in popular culture of the day, and how that vision has changed over time.From the sixteenth until the …
The Bestselling Author of Victorian England
George W.M. Reynolds (1814-79) was one of the biggest-selling novelists of the Victorian era. He was the author of over 58 novels and short stories and his penny blood The …