The monks of Abingdon drank so much beer that they were limited to 20 pints a day each.
 | Charles I (2007) Charles I was a complex man whose career intersected with some of the most dramatic events in English history. He played a central role in provoking the English Civil War, and his execution led to the only republican government Britain has ever known. Historians have struggled to get him into perspective, veering between outright… |
 | Charles I (Penguin Monarchs): An Abbreviated Life (2014) The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of religious and political disputes. In Mark Kishlansky's brilliant account it is never in doubt that Charles created his own catastrophe, but he was nonetheless… |
 | Investigating Gunpowder Plot (1991) This book attempts to examine the ways in which the government of James I set about discovering the details and ramifications of the Gunpowder Plot. The book also has broader aims, to expand our knowledge of the way this administration adapted itself to emergencies, and to elucidate the means by which the Privy Council and its agents… |
 | Reform & Renewal: Thomas Cromwell and the Common Weal (2008) Scholarship has established the prevalence of a reformist ideal of 'the Commonwealth' in early Tudor England, but concentration on scholars and writings has led to a neglect of affairs and politics. This study attempts to discover the fate of reforming programmes when efforts were made to translate them into reality, and it uses the… |
 | The Crisis Of Parliaments: English History, 1509-1660 (1971) Political, social, and economic factors are integrated in this book, the two themes of which are the political and constitutional effects of rapid inflation and the difficulties caused by the universal desire to achieve and enforce religion in a theologically divided country. |
 | The Early Stuarts: A Political History of England, 1603-42 (1998) Early Stuart England is one of the most intensively examined periods in English history. The outwardly successful reign of Elizabeth I gives way during the period to the breakdown of consensus, civil war, and eventually to the destruction of the monarchy itself. The reasons for this are hotly disputed. The tradional explanations have… |
 | The English Civil War At First Hand (2011) Almost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War. England was divided between Cavaliers and Roundheads engaged in bitter struggles from Preston to Lostwithiel, Pembroke to York. Armies were on the march, villages were decimated and great… |
 | The Gunpowder Plot Terror & Faith in 1605 Part Two (2002) With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot. |
 | The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605 (2003) With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot. |
 | The Gunpowder Plot: The narrative of Oswald Tesimond alias Greenway (2005) |
 | The Storm (2016) The Storm
or, a Collection of the most Remarkable Casualties and
Disasters which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest,
both by Sea and Land |
 | Thomas Cromwell: The untold story of Henry VIII's most faithful servant (2015) Thomas Cromwell's life has made gripping reading for millions through Hilary Mantel's bestselling novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. But who was the real Cromwell? In this major new biography, leading historian Tracy Borman examines the life, loves and legacy of the man who changed the shape of England forever.
Born a lowly… |