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  • Paston Letters 1422-1509 (Complete)

    by James Gairdner ...
    Public attention was first drawn to the Paston Letters in the year 1787, when there issued from the press two quarto volumes with a very lengthy title, setting forth that the contents were original letters written ‘by various persons of rank and consequence’ during the reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III. The materials were derived from autographs in the possession of the Editor, a Mr ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third

    by James Gairdner ...
    Chios Classics brings literature’s greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third is a biography of the famous English king. ... Read more

    $2.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Houses of Lancaster and York

    by James Gairdner ...
    The reign of Edward III may be considered the climax of mediaeval civilization and of England’s early greatness. It is the age in which chivalry attained its highest perfection. It is the period of the most brilliant achievements in war and of the greatest development of arts and commerce before the Reformation. It was succeeded by an age of decay and disorder, in the midst of which, for one brief ... Read more

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  • The Houses of Lancaster and York

    by James Gairdner ...
    The reign of Edward III may be considered the climax of mediaeval civilization and of England's early greatness. It is the age in which chivalry attained its highest perfection. It is the period of the most brilliant achievements in war and of the greatest development of arts and commerce before the Reformation. It was succeeded by an age of decay and disorder, in the midst of which, for one brief ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Houses of Lancaster and York

    by James Gairdner ...
    Chios Classics brings literature’s greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.The Houses of Lancaster and York is an overview of the famous English families. ... Read more

    $2.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Paston Letters, Volume I (Illustrated)

    by James Gairdner ...
    THE PASTON LETTERSA.D. 1422-1509Author Preface:PUBLIC attention was first drawn to the Paston Letters in the year 1787, when there issued from the press two quarto volumes with a very lengthy title, setting forth that the contents were original letters written ‘by various persons of rank and consequence’ during the reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III. The materials were derived from ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

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    Henry The Seventh (Unabridged)

    by JAMES GAIRDNER ...
    Narrated by Casey Byrge ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 33 min

    Henry VII, the founder of the Tudor dynasty, less known than his son, Henry VIII, or granddaughter Elizabeth I, is often overlooked. This King toppled the ruling House that had held England's throne for over four hundred years, the Plantagenets, and took a divided, war torn country and made one of the richest in Europe by the time of his death in 1609. Henry VII’s reign was characterized by thrift ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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    Henry VII is less spectacular than his descendants, but not less interesting or even exciting. The first of the Tudors has been less written about than any (except Edward VI). He supplanted a dynasty and subordinated an aristocracy; he collected a treasure and created a fleet. But he created also the engine of monarchy. He did this because his desires were never at odds with his intentions: he ... Read more

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  • The Reign of Mary Tudor

    by James Froude ...
    The memory of no English sovereign has been so execrated as that of Mary Tudor. For generations after her death her name, with its horrid epithet clinging round it like the shirt of Nessus, was a bugbear in thousands of Protestant homes. It is true that nearly 300 persons were burnt at the stake in her short reign. But she herself was more inclined to mercy than almost any of her predecessors on ... Read more

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  • Lost Heirs of the Medieval Crown

    The Kings and Queens Who Never Were

    by J. F. Andrews ...
    "A fascinating study of the also-rans and almost-made-its of medieval history . . . Beautifully written and well researched, it is an engaging read." — History . . . The Interesting Bits!When William the Conqueror died in 1087, he left the throne of England to William Rufus . . . his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus's elder brother Robert fought to gain the crown he saw as ... Read more

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  • William the Conqueror

    by E. A. Freeman ...
    A fascinating history of the life of one of the most important figures in English history: William the Conqueror. William famously invaded England in 1066, defeating King Harold's English forces at the Battle of Hastings, and established himself King over the new Norman England. ... Read more

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  • The History of England Volume IV

    by David Hume ...
    Series series History of England, The
    Volume IV covers the reign of Elizabeth, perhaps the greatest monarch England ever had, including her struggles with and eventual defeat of Mary Queen of Scots. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD