In a novel of alternative history, the Spanish Armada has conquered England, while in London, a mysterious stranger approaches young playwright William Shakespeare with an offer that could change the course of history. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
John Donne, A Burnt Ship1 Gentlemen officers were restored, in the later account of Sir Henry Sheres, to 'Counterballance' the 'Seamen ... very much inclined to favour the party of [Edward Montagu] the Earle of Sandwich'.2 It was, ...
This interdisciplinary study examines changing geographical languages in early modern British politics, in an imperial, European and global context.
Ruled Britannia: Letters from a Roman Province
In Engeland, de nabije toekomst, ijveren de Bloods ervoor om iedereen wit, christelijk en hetero te maken.
Achieving a landslide victory, President Joe Steele wastes no time pushing through Congress reforms that put citizens back to work. Anyone who gets in his way is getting in the way of America, and that includes the highest in the land.
115 Dutton's story draws considerably upon Russell, Roving Mariners, 111ff. For Dutton as pioneer, see J. G. Wiltshire, Captain William Pelham Dutton: First Settler at Portland Bay, Victoria: A History of the Whaling and Sealing ...
76 Warwickshire Record Office, Ward-Boughton-Leigh of Brownsover Collection, CR 840/4, Sir Egerton Leigh to his sister, 5 August 1782. 77 TNA, Chatham Papers, PRO 30/8/96, Pt. II, fo. 302, Bell to Pitt, 2 September 1763.
... half-ironic claim to an ancestral connection with Shakespeare via the actor Jack Wilson: “His anxiousness to claim grand ancestors might profitably be compared with Shakespeare's own attempts to acquire the trappings of gentility.
For this special, hardback edition of British History For Dummies, we’ve added over 100 black and white and colour photos for an even more explosive experience of British history.
From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War.