Bejewelled: Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England
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Jewellery is often viewed as a feminine preoccupation, but in Tudor and Jacobean England men wore...
The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
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In the early seventeenth century, the London stage often portrayed a ruler covertly spying on his...
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear
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1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn...
A Shakespearean Botanical
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When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighting...
The Drowned City
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Gunpowder and treason changed England forever. But the tides are turning and revenge runs deep in...
Historical fiction Jacobean England Gunpowder Plot
Stone Houses of the English Countryside
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For more than one hundred years, Country Life magazine has published a weekly article devoted to a...
The House at Phantom Park
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In this abandoned hospital, pain lives on... and it wants revenge. St Philomena's military...
Civil War: The History of England: Volume III
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In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the...
The Prince Who Would be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
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Henry Stuart's life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty...
English Country House Interiors
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A highly detailed look at the English country house interior, offering unprecedented access to...