William Somerville (Sir)'s Books

Based on a manuscript discovered in a country bookshop, far from Matfen Hall in Northumberland, where it was written by a Lady Blackett, the Victorian wife of Edward Blackett Bt. It a history of an important northern family, with Lady Blackett's writing and many of her pictures and photographs, including one of a ghost!

This work provides biographies of more than 500 men and women who have served as admiral, vice admiral, or rear admiral. While officers from the U.S., British, French and Japanese navies make up the bulk of the work, officers from 22 countries, including Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and Spain, are also included. The main criterion for inclusion is that each person must have actively served in the rank of at least rear admiral, but not necessarily in enemy action. This effectively rules out people who were granted the rank on retirement, as a courtesy title or posthumously. The book also includes lists of admirals organized by nationality and by year of birth.

Presents the candid diary of Thomas Macaulay, Victorian statesman, historian and author of "The History of England". This work shows how, spanning the period 1838 to 1859, the journal is the longest work from Macaulay's pen. It states that these unique manuscripts held at Trinity College, Cambridge, are most revealing of all his writings. Volume 5 includes entries from 1 January 1857–23 December 1859 and an Index.

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries, textual notes on the plays and poems and an extensive Introduction. Shakespeare's plays about the reign of King Henry VI were written at the beginning of his career. A recent series of outstanding productions has demonstrated their theatrical vitality, and their sceptical questioning of Elizabethan orthodoxies has been understood through revisionist readings of the history of Shakespeare's own times. In The Third Part of King Henry VI, Shakespeare extends his essay on monarchical politics by contrasting two kings, the good but ineffective Henry VI with his rival, the sensual and victorious Edward IV. He also shows the perils of aristocratic factionalism in a series of scenes that display the grievous wounds caused by the Wars of the Roses.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Book's by William Somerville (Sir)

The Ship that Came Home

The Ship that Came Home

Admirals of the World

Admirals of the World

The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay Vol 5

The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay Vol 5

The Third Part of King Henry VI

The Third Part of King Henry VI

The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Commercial Restraints of Ireland, Considered in a Series of Letters to a Noble Lord, Containing an Historical Account of the Affairs of that Kingdom. Dublin, 1779

The Commercial Restraints of Ireland, Considered in a Series of Letters to a Noble Lord, Containing an Historical Account of the Affairs of that Kingdom. Dublin, 1779

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