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  • Edward the Confessor

    by Frank Barlow ...
    Frank Barlow's magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary myth and subsequent bogus scholarship. Disentangling verifiable fact from saintly legend, he vividly re-creates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and examines England before the Norman Conquest with deep insight and great historical ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Feudal Kingdom of England

    1042-1216

    by Frank Barlow ...
    Series series A History of England
    Now in its fifth edition, this hugely successful text remains as vivid and readable as ever. Frank Barlow illuminates every aspect of the Anglo-Norman world, but the central appeal of the book continues to be its firm narrative structure. Here is a fascinating story compellingly told.At the beginning of the period he shows us an England that is still, politically and culturally, on the fringe of ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • The Godwins

    The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty

    by Frank Barlow ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    The family of Earl Godwin of Wessex stands among the most famous in English history, whose most famous son was King Harold.Frank Barlow charts the family through to Harold – the last Anglo-Saxon king – and finally the crowning of William the Conqueror during the Norman Conquest. Set against the backdrop of Viking raids and ultimately the Norman Conquest of 1066, Frank Barlow unravels the gripping ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • William Rufus

    by Frank Barlow ...
    Series series The English Monarchs Series
    William II, better known as William Rufus, was the third son of William the Conqueror and England’s king for only 13 years (1087–1100) before he was mysteriously assassinated. In this vivid biography, here updated and reissued with a new preface, Frank Barlow reveals an unconventional, flamboyant William Rufus—a far more attractive and interesting monarch than previously believed. Weaving an ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    On 15 June 1215, rebel barons forced King John to meet them at Runnymede. They did not trust the King, so he was not allowed to leave until his seal was attached to the charter in front of him.This was Magna Carta. It was a revolutionary document. Never before had royal authority been so fundamentally challenged. Nearly 800 years later, two of the charter's sixty-three clauses are still a ringing ... Read more

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  • The Plantagenets

    The Kings Who Made England

    by Dan Jones ...
    Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen – from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt – this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today – great history to appeal to readers of Ken Follet, Bernard Cornwell, Tom HollandEngland’s greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over ... Read more

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  • Foundation

    The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    Series Book 1 - The History of England
    The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion.In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Crown and Country

    A History of England through the Monarchy

    by David Starkey ...
    An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated.The monarchy is one of Britain’s longest surviving institutions – as well as one of its most tumultuous and revered. In this masterful book, David Starkey looks at the monarchy as a whole, charting its history from Roman times, to ... Read more

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  • The Perfect King

    The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation

    by Ian Mortimer ...
    He ordered his uncle to be beheaded; he usurped his father's throne; he started a war which lasted for more than a hundred years, and taxed his people more than any other previous king. Yet for centuries Edward III was celebrated as the most brilliant king England had ever had, and three hundred years after his death it was said that his kingship was perhaps the greatest that the world had ever ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Edward III: The Perfect King

    by Ian Mortimer ...
    A look at the brutal, brilliant fourteenth-century ruler, by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England.Holding power for over fifty years starting in 1327, Edward III was one of England's most influential kings—and one who shaped the course of English history. Revered as one of the country's most illustrious leaders for centuries, he was also a usurper and a warmonger ... Read more

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  • Henry IV: The Righteous King

    by Ian Mortimer ...
    The real life story of the Plantagenet ruler, by "the most remarkable medieval historian of our time" ( The Times, London).The talented, confident, and intelligent son of John of Gaunt, Henry IV started his reign as a popular and charismatic king after he dethroned the tyrannical and wildly unpopular Richard II. But six years into his reign, Henry had survived eight assassination and overthrow ... Read more

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  • Anglo-Saxon England

    by Sir Frank M. Stenton ...
    'outstanding ... one of the most valuable contributions ever made to our knowledge of the history of our own land' English Historical Review This book covers the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms to the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087. Professor Stenton examines the development of English society, from the growth of royal power to the establishment of feudalism after ... Read more

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