The story of Henry VIII's sister Mary Rose, the beautiful princess who married first the King of France and then the great rake of the Tudor era, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.
The raising of the _Mary Rose_ in 1982 was a remarkable feat of archaeology and her subsequent preservation and display at Portsmouth a triumph of technical skill and imagination. She...
Mary Rose was, for the English, a revolutionary ship. Prior to her construction all ships' great guns had been carried on the upper deck or in the fore- and after castles, which limited the size of weapon that could be safely deployed ...
Helping his Aunt Mary tend a beloved family rosebush, young Douglas learns how the generations of their family have stayed connected to one another through the bush's upkeep.
This book will appeal both to professionals in the area, and to those for whom Tudor history holds a general fascination.
This volume features: -The first full archaeological reconstruction of the Mary Rose, as she would have appeared when built and when she sank.
Leonard Stevenson, a retired lawyer, and an indefatigable righter of wrongs, takes up the challenge again in The Case of Mary-Rose, the second book in the Stevenson series.
I let my head hit the window with a thud and listened to his radio crackle and the dispatcher routinely spit out codes—of domestic disputes and auto theft. The cop said he was taking me straight home, instead of to the station— which I ...
Seamlessly interwoven is the story of Grace, Iris’s granddaughter in 1970s Australia. Together their narratives paint a portrait of the changing role of women in medicine and the powerful legacy of love.
When conversation turns to western Canada her friends always say, “Ask Mary-Rose, she knows all about B.C.” The launch is well equipped with drinks and a variety of snacks, and the time passes happily. By noon they are out of the canal ...
In 1982, more than four hundred years after she mysteriously sank off the English coastline, Henry VIII's great warship the Mary Rose was raised to the surface. The extraordinarily intact...