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  • Yorkshire in the Civil Wars

    by Jack Binns ...
    Yorkshire in the Civil Wars is more than a history of the momentous events of the English Civil Wars as they affected Yorkshire but also a detailed and enthralling account of the economic and social impact of the conflict on England’s largest county. Jack Binns was born in Keighley in the West Riding of Yorkshire and educated at the local grammar school and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Flying Buccaneer

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Jack Binns ...
    This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. In a future of global air routes and dazzling aerial machines, a masked pirate shatters the illusion of safety by destroying a transpacific mail airship and stealing its cargo in mid-ocean. Washington's Air Department reels as Secretary of Air George Cowl, the Secretary of the Navy, and their aides confront reports ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The History of Scarborough

    by Jack Binns ...
    There are at least thirteen other Scarboroughs in the world, but the Scarborough on Yorkshire's coast in England is the first and parent of all the others. This is a new account of a 2000-year old history of a place that has been Iron-Age camp, Roman signal station, Viking's lair, Angevin castle, European fish fair, shipbuilding port and Britain's earliest watering resort tht invented holidays by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Yorkshire in the 17th Century

    by Jack Binns ...
    'Yorkshire in the Seventeenth Century' charts the events in England's largest county through the years that saw the country change from a monarchy to the beginnings of a Parliamentary democracy and argues that Yorkshire and Yorkshire people were at the centre of affairs. Written by one of Yorkshire's leading local historians the book is fully illustrated and contains a bibliogrpahy for those ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sir Hugh Cholmley of Whitby

    Ancestry, Life and Legacy

    by Jack Binns ...
    Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600 - 1657) is the best remembered member of a family which for two centuries were overlords of an estate of 26,000 acres in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Thanks to his vivid and frank autobiographies, we know much in detail of an extraordinary life which ran from spendthrift playboy and successful estate manager to magistrate, member of parliament and leading opponent of King ... Read more

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  • Scarborough's Heroes, Rogues and Eccentrics

    by Jack Binns ...
    During the last thousand years Scarborough has been the birthplace, home, refuge, playground, hospital and cemetery for pirates, kings, nobles, merchants, soldiers, seamen, physicians, engineers, artists, missionaries and mountebanks. Chosen for their outstanding courage, villainy or individuality, here are thirty-three long-dead men and women whose deeds and misdeeds contributed significantly to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    by David Santiuste ...
    This fascinating account of an unsung English monarch and military leader is "a pleasing and well-informed appraisal of the first Yorkist king" (Dr. Michael Jones, author of Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle).Indisputably the most effective general of the Wars of the Roses in fifteenth-century England, King Edward IV died in his bed, undefeated in battle. Yet he has never been accorded the ... Read more

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  • Stoke Field

    The Last Battle of the Wars of the Roses

    by David Baldwin ...
    The Battle of Stoke, the last and most neglected armed clash of the Wars of the Roses, is one of history's great might-have-beens. The forces of the first Tudor king Henry VII confronted the rebel army of the pretender Lambert Simnel and his commander the Earl of Lincoln. Henry's victory over the Yorkists was decisive - it confirmed the crown to the House of Tudor for more than a century. David ... Read more

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  • The Plantation of Ulster

    War and Conflict in Ireland

    by Jonathan Bardon ...
    In this vivid account, the author punctures some generally held assumptions: despite slaughter and famine, the province on the eve of the Plantation was not completely depopulated as was often asserted at the time; the native Irish were not deliberately given the most infertile land; some of the most energetic planters were Catholic; and the Catholic Church there emerged stronger than before. ... Read more

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  • Richard III and the Bosworth Campaign

    by Peter Hammond ...
    On 22 August 1485 the forces of the Yorkist king Richard III and his Lancastrian opponent Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond clashed at Bosworth Field in Leicestershire in one of the decisive battles of English history. Richard was defeated and killed. Henry took the crown as Henry VII, established the Tudor dynasty and set English history on a new course. For the last 500 years this, the most famous ... Read more

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  • To Catch A King

    Charles II's Great Escape

    by Charles Spencer ...
    How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell’s armies at the battle of Worcester.With 3,000 of his supporters lying dead and ... Read more

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  • Richard III

    by David Baldwin ...
    Not many people would claim to be saints, or alternatively, consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others, but few have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of Gloucester and, later still, King Richard III. Richards character has been besmirched as often as it has been defended, and the arguments between his ... Read more

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