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Uncrowned Queen

The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors

By: Nicola Tallis

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Uncrowned Queen

The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors

By: Nicola Tallis

An "impeccably researched and beautifully written" biography of Lady Margaret Beaufort, matriarch of the Tudor dynasty (Tracy Borman, author of The Private Lives of the Tudors and Elizabeth's Women). In 1485, Henry VII became the first Tudor king of England. His victory owed much to his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. Over decades and across countries, Margaret had schemed to install her son on the throne and end the War of the Roses. Margaret's extraordinarily close relationship with Henry, coupled with her role in political and ceremonial affairs, ensured that she was treated -- and behaved -- as a queen in all but name. Against a lavish backdrop of pageantry and ambition, court intrigue and war, historian Nicola Tallis illuminates how a dynamic, brilliant woman orchestrated the rise of the Tudors.

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Basic Books

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1541617886

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All the Queen’s Jewels, 1445–1548

Power, Majesty and Display

By: Nicola Tallis

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All the Queen’s Jewels, 1445–1548

Power, Majesty and Display

By: Nicola Tallis

From Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr, All the Queen’s Jewels examines the jewellery collections of the ten queen consorts of England between 1445–1548 and investigates the collections of jewels a queen had access to, as well as the varying contexts in which queens used and wore jewels. The jewellery worn by queens reflected both their gender and their status as the first lady of the realm. Jewels were more than decorative adornments; they were an explicit display of wealth, majesty and authority. They were often given to queens by those who wished to seek her favour or influence and were also associated with key moments in their lifecycle. These included courtship and marriage, successfully negotiating childbirth (and thus providing dynastic continuity), and their elevation to queenly status or coronation. This book explores the way that queens acquired jewels, whether via their predecessor, their own commission or through gift giving. It underscores that jewels were a vital tool that enabled queens to shape their identities as consort, and to fashion images of power that could be seen by their households, court and contemporaries. This book is perfect for anyone interested in medieval and Tudor history, queenship, jewellery and the history of material culture.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000787087

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9781000787085

The Royal Image and the English People

By: Nicola Smith

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The Royal Image and the English People

By: Nicola Smith

This title was first published in 2001. For the English people, the image of the monarchy is deeply bound up with the idea of nationhood. This book surveys aspects of England's royal heritage dialogue from the late middle ages to the 19th century. It concentrates on monumental sculpted portraits because that was the way in which the image of the monarchy was customarily presented in the most immediate and permanent form at large scale in the public arena. The aim of such memorials was to consolidate and commemorate shared loyalties and beliefs, focusing on the monarchs. They were sometimes protected by railings, more often than just by their talismanic value. There was widespread resistance to the idea that Oliver Cromwell should be commemorated by public memorial. The English generally remained uncomfortable with the idea of republicanism. The monarchial government of the middle ages, thought to be sanctioned by God, was very different from the figurehead the monarchy has become.

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Routledge

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1351766074

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Young Elizabeth

Princess. Prisoner. Queen.

By: Nicola Tallis

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Young Elizabeth

Princess. Prisoner. Queen.

By: Nicola Tallis

The first fully comprehensive biography of the young Elizabeth I in over twenty years, drawing on a rich variety of primary sources from both Elizabeth herself and those closest to her during her tumultuous youth.

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Michael O'Mara Books

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1789295203

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Forbidden

By: Nicola Cornick

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Forbidden

By: Nicola Cornick

Lucky servant girl Margery Mallon receives some passionate attention from a stranger and a newfound inheritance.

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HQN Books

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0373776675

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9780373776672

West Country Murders

By: Nicola Sly,John Kiste,Simon Dell

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West Country Murders

By: Nicola Sly,John Kiste,Simon Dell

Hidden behind the picturesque facade of country lanes and rugged coastlines, quaint villages and busy market towns, the South West counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset have witnessed some of the most shocking murder cases in British history. West Country Murders brings together over 30 cases from the authors' previous collections here in one volume. They include stories of those who killed for greed, jealousy and lust, as well as those who committed murder in what a well-known judge once described as 'a gust of passion'. Some of the killers were undoubtedly insane at the time of their crimes; others were almost certainly innocent, yet paid the ultimate price for a murder they did not commit. Some remain unsolved to this day, despite the best efforts of the local constabularies. This book is sure to appeal to all those interested in the shady side of the West Country's history.

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The History Press

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0752484079

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9780752484075

Crown of Blood

By: Nicola Tallis

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Crown of Blood

By: Nicola Tallis

Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same.” These were the heartbreaking words of seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Grey as she stood on the scaffold awaiting death on a cold February morning in 1554. She is known to history as "the Nine Days Queen," but her reign lasted for thirteen days. The human and emotional aspects of her story have often been ignored, although she is remembered as one of the Tudor Era’s most tragic victims. While this is doubtless true, it is only part of the complex jigsaw of Jane’s story. Crown of Blood is an important and significant retelling of an often-misunderstood tale: set at the time of Jane’s downfall and following her journey through to her trial and execution, each chapter moves between the past and the “present,” using a rich abundance of primary source material (some of which has never been published) in order to paint a vivid picture of Jane’s short and turbulent life.

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Simon and Schuster

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1681772876

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Gender, Family, and Politics

The Howard Women, 1485-1558

By: Nicola Clark

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Gender, Family, and Politics

The Howard Women, 1485-1558

By: Nicola Clark

Gender, Family, and Politics is the first full-length, gender-inclusive study of the Howard family, one of the pre-eminent families of early-modern Britain. Most of the existing scholarship on this aristocratic dynasty's political operation during the first half of the sixteenth-century centres on the male family members, and studies of the women of the early-modern period tends to focus on class or geographical location. Nicola Clark, however, places women and the question of kinship in centre-stage, arguing that this is necessary to understand the complexity of the early modern dynasty. A nuanced understanding of women's agency, dynastic identity, and politics allows us to more fully understand the political, social, religious, and cultural history of early-modern Britain.

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Oxford University Press

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0191087661

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The Confessions of a Duchess

By: Nicola Cornick

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The Confessions of a Duchess

By: Nicola Cornick

When an ancient tax law is invoked requiring all unmarried ladies to either wed or surrender half their wealth, it's not long before the quiet village of Fortune's Folly is overrun by a swarm of fortune-hunting bachelors. Marry again? Never! Not after what Laura, the dowager duchess, was forced to endure. Even if the arrival of her onetime paramour, Dexter Anstruther, is oh-so-tempting, she knows the secret she's kept from him would destroy any chance at a future together. Young, handsome and scandalously enticing, Dexter suspects Laura has a hidden motive for resisting his charms…and he intends to expose her, by any means necessary.

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1426833962

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The Last Chance Christmas Ball

By: Mary Jo Putney,Jo Beverley,Joanna Bourne,Patricia Rice,Nicola Cornick,Cara Elliott,Anne Gracie,Susan King

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The Last Chance Christmas Ball

By: Mary Jo Putney,Jo Beverley,Joanna Bourne,Patricia Rice,Nicola Cornick,Cara Elliott,Anne Gracie,Susan King

“Eight romance authors walk into a Regency-era ballroom and wreak fabulous, shimmering holiday mischief all over the place.”—Publishers Weekly Christmas 1815. Upstairs and downstairs, Holbourne Abbey is abuzz with preparations for a grand ball to celebrate the year’s most festive—and romantic—holiday. For at the top of each guest’s wish list is a last chance to find true love before the New Year . . . “The tales are rather sentimental, a box of chocolates with sweet, soft centers inside a dark covering, a pleasant confection for the holiday season. My personal favorites are Anne Gracie’s ‘Mistletoe Kisses,’ a charming variant on the Cinderella story, and Susan King’s ‘A Scottish Carol,’ whose lovers must struggle to find healing for the wounds of self-doubt and past failures; but there is ample variety here for other tastes. Recommended for lovers of Regency romances.”—Historical Novel Society “In this wonderful collection of eight short stories, Christmas in the Regency world is brought to life in extraordinary fashion, with love, secrets, scoundrels and heroes of every description.”—Fresh Fiction “If what you are looking for is a set of short stories with a common location and holiday feel that are well done, quick to read, and entertaining then this will be a book for you . . . one of the best historical romance collections I’ve read in a long time.”—Smexy Books “Each author’s unique style and storytelling talents are at their best, gifting readers one scrumptious treat after another . . . glowing with the joy and romance of the yuletide.”—RT Book Reviews (4 Stars)

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Zebra Books

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142013860X

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9781420138603

Extra-Ordinary Men

White Heterosexual Masculinity and Contemporary Popular Cinema

By: Nicola Rehling

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Extra-Ordinary Men

White Heterosexual Masculinity and Contemporary Popular Cinema

By: Nicola Rehling

Extra-Ordinary Men analyzes popular cinematic representations of white heterosexual masculinity as the 'ordinary' form of male identity, one that enjoys considerable economic, social, political, and representational strength. Nicola Rehling argues that while this normative position affords white heterosexual masculinity ideological and political dominance, such 'ordinariness' also engenders the anxiety that it is a depthless, vacuous, and unstable identity. At a time when the neutrality of white heterosexual masculinity has been challenged by identity politics, this insightful volume offers lucid accounts of contemporary theoretical debates on masculinity in popular cinema, and explores the strategies deployed in popular films to reassert white heterosexual male hegemony through detailed readings of films as diverse as Fight Club, Boys Don't Cry, and The Matrix. Accessible to undergraduates, but also of interest to film scholars, the book makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the ways in which popular film helps construct and maintain many unexamined assumptions about masculinity, gender, race, and sexuality.

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Lexington Books

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1461633427

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9781461633426

Herefordshire Murders

By: Nicola Sly

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Herefordshire Murders

By: Nicola Sly

Herefordshire Murders brings together twenty-eight murderous tales, some which were little known outside the county and others which made national headlines. Herefordshire was home to one of Britain’s most infamous murderers, Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, who, in 1921, poisoned his wife and attempted to poison a fellow solicitor in Hay-on-Wye. However, the county has also experienced many lesser known murders. They include the case of two-year-old Walter Frederick Steers, brutally killed in Little Hereford in 1891; eighty-seven-year-old Phillip Ballard, who died at the hands of two would-be burglars in Tupsley in 1887; Jane Haywood, murdered by her husband near Leominster in 1903; and the shooting of two sisters at Burghill Court, near Hereford, by their butler in 1926. Nicola Sly’s carefully researched and enthralling text will appeal to everyone interested in the shady side of Herefordshire’s history.

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The History Press

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0752483951

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9780752483955

O'Connell Street

The History and Life of Dublin's Iconic Street

By: Nicola Pierce

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O'Connell Street

The History and Life of Dublin's Iconic Street

By: Nicola Pierce

O'Connell Street is at the heart of Dublin. It has been through name changes and revolutions, destruction and rebuilding and remained at the heart of the story of Ireland for centuries. Nicola Pierce explores the people, the history, the buildings and the stories behind the main street in our capital city. Packed with stories of the people connected to the streets, from the subjects of the statues, to the sculptors that created them, from those who owned and developed the street since the days of St Mary's Abbey in 1147, to those who worked and lived there through the centuries and all the drama and scandals that went on both on the street and behind closed doors. O'Connell Street will also feature more personal, anecdotal stories of the cinemas, meeting under Clery's clock, buying engagement rings at The Happy Ring House, witnessing motorcades such as the Apollo XIII coming down the street, the heyday of film stars staying at the Gresham, and scandals and murders on the street.

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The O'Brien Press Ltd

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1788493060

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9781788493062

Behind the Walls

A City Besieged

By: Nicola Pierce

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Behind the Walls

A City Besieged

By: Nicola Pierce

Derry, 1689. An anonymous letter is read out saying that every last Protestant man, woman and child is to be murdered. Panic takes hold. Two teenage boys, Daniel and Robert Sherrard, help close the city gates against the approaching Catholic army. The siege has begun. Bombs rain down. Behind the walls, tensions grow day by day. Trapped, the people are injured, dying, starving. But there is no going back ... Daniel and Robert are drawn into a fight to the end. 'this fantastically written book will hook you from the start... this is historical fiction at its best.' The Guardian on City of Fate

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The O'Brien Press

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1847177581

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Broadmoor Inmates

True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the Asylum

By: Nicola Sly

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Broadmoor Inmates

True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the Asylum

By: Nicola Sly

Broadmoor Inmates: True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the Asylum brings together the histories of people who died in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, each having committed a crime that led to them being pronounced criminally insane, necessitating their confinement and containment for their own protection, as well as that of the public. Nowadays, staff have a wide range of therapeutic tools at their disposal but historically the only treatment offered to patients was work, leisure activities and abundant fresh air. All human life is here the addicts, the mentally deranged, the delusional, the tragic and the chronically and postnatally depressed men and women whose acts of madness led them to be reviled and feared, but who were often as much victims of their own internal demons as were those they harmed. As well as wife murderers James Potter and Peter Whittle, the characters within include Henry Dommett, James Senior and Mary Ann Parr, who each killed their own children and Christiana Edmunds, who poisoned several people in Brighton to divert suspicion from herself, after attempting to murder her love rival. Other vignettes include serial arsonist John Green, counterfeiter Emma Jackson and James Stevenson and Roderick Edward McClean, both of whom took exception to the accession of Her Majesty Queen Victoria to the throne, the latter attempting to assassinate her. Daniel McNaughten became so paranoid about the Tory spies that he believed followed him constantly that he killed a civil servant in 1843, mistakenly believing his victim to be prime minister Sir Robert Peel. Such was McNaughtens derangement that his crime spawned a new standard for the legal definition of insanity. Generously illustrated throughout, this book will prove of interest to those with a fascination for historical true crime and the way its perpetrators were dealt with by society.

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Pen and Sword History

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1399048945

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9781399048941

The Beano Book of Britain

By: Nicola Baxter,Rosemary McCormick

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The Beano Book of Britain

By: Nicola Baxter,Rosemary McCormick

Britain will be brought to life by the uniqu e comic fun of the Beano gang as they rampage through the co untry meeting kings, queens and heroes from myth and legend.

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0753401479

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9780753401477

Therapeutic Skills for Mental Health Nurses

By: Nicola Evans,Ben Hannigan

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Therapeutic Skills for Mental Health Nurses

By: Nicola Evans,Ben Hannigan

Most specialist mental health care is provided by nurses who use face to face helping skills with a wide range of people in a variety of contexts. This book puts therapeutic skills at the heart of the nurse’s role, with one central aim: to equip you with knowledge to use in your practice, thus improving your ability to deliver care. This book: • Will enable you to strengthen your core therapeutic skills and broaden your knowledge to include other practical therapeutic approaches • Collates in one place information on a range of therapeutic approaches, from person centred counselling, motivational interviewing and solution focused approaches, through to day to day skills of challenging unhelpful thoughts, de-escalating difficult situations, working with families, and problem solving • Demonstrates application of theory to practice through a variety of practical examples • Features reader activities to facilitate personal growth and learning • Includes a chapter exploring clinical supervision and how this makes practice more effective Each chapter is grounded in authentic clinical experiences and focuses on equipping the reader to develop confidence in their client facing skills. This text is an essential purchase for all mental health nurse students as well as qualified nurses. "Whilst the essential therapeutic component of mental health nursing is the nurse themselves, it is also essential that they have knowledge and competencies to offer the client. This valuable book offers the reader an introduction to a wide range of approaches that are considered helpful, evidence based and effective. Modern mental health nursing requires much of its practitioners; this book will help inform and support that endeavour." Ian Hulatt, Mental Health Adviser, Royal College of Nursing, UK “This is a timely book which addresses, head on, questions about what mental health nurses can do to be effective with their patients. At last we have a book that mental health nurses can draw on to understand why and how various therapeutic approaches are used. The range is from cognitive behavioural therapy, to psychodynamic approaches to mindfulness, with others in between. Each chapter is written by an expert and each offers concrete examples of what it involved in each of the approaches. These examples are imperative if readers are to understand how to use interventions in their everyday work. This ground breaking book will be compulsory reading for everyone involved in the care of those with mental health problems. A wonderful book.” Philip Burnard, Emeritus Professor of Nursing, Cardiff University, UK

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335264417

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9780335264414

Over You

By: Emma McLaughlin,Nicola Kraus

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Over You

By: Emma McLaughlin,Nicola Kraus

The authors of the bestselling novel The Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, bring you the story of a girl who gets her heart broken…and figures out a foolproof way to get over her ex. Over You’s Max Scott had a hard time getting over Hugo, the boy who dumped her. Now it’s Max’s mission to help NYC girls get over their broken hearts fast, and with dignity. Now Max’s life is better than she ever imagined it could be. Her new business, Ex, Inc., is booming. Better still, her friendship with Ben, a truly sweet guy, could turn romantic. But when Hugo reenters the picture, Max realizes that she isn’t over him. At all. Funny, touching, and romantic, Over You is the kind of book every girl will fall head over heels for.

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Harper Collins

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0062190237

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9780062190239

Medieval Art and Architecture at Durham Cathedral

The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions for the year 1977

By: Nicola Coldstream,Peter Draper

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Medieval Art and Architecture at Durham Cathedral

The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions for the year 1977

By: Nicola Coldstream,Peter Draper

This book contains fifteen essays that synthesize the documentary and archaeological evidence for the development of early medieval Durham and asses its archaeological potential. It systematically extracts the important aspects of materials related to architectural history of the Durham cathedral.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040282555

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9781040282557

The Loire

By: Nicola Williams

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The Loire

By: Nicola Williams

France's Loire Valley is arguably one of the most romantic places on Earth. Where else can travellers hike a countryside of castles, bicycle to a winery, dine on fine cuisine in a chateau, and camp under the stars? All practical details are covered in this helpful guide. Detailed maps suggest imaginative outings. A special section provides advice on local cuisine and selecting the best of the area's wines. A helpful French language chapter is included.

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1864500972

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9781864500974

Lincoln Castle Revealed

The Story of a Norman Powerhouse and its Anglo-Saxon Precursor

By: Jonathan Clark,Justin Garner-Lahire,Cecily Spall,Nicola Toop

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Lincoln Castle Revealed

The Story of a Norman Powerhouse and its Anglo-Saxon Precursor

By: Jonathan Clark,Justin Garner-Lahire,Cecily Spall,Nicola Toop

This book tells a new story of the royal castle of Lincoln in the north of England, how it was imposed on the late Anglo-Saxon town, and how it developed over the next 900 years in the hands of the English king or his aristocratic associates, leaving us a surviving monument of three great towers, each with its own biography. Led by FAS Heritage, archaeologists, architectural historians and a large cohort of the general public have combined to produce a revealing and accessible account of the story of Lincoln Castle and a reborn historical attraction for the city of Lincoln.

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Oxbow Books

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1789257387

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