Medieval Britain

ISBN: 9781785708169
Published by : Oxbow Books
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The cathedral city of Hereford is one of the best-kept historical secrets of the Welsh Marches. Although its Anglo-Saxon development is well known from a series of classic excavations in the 1960s and ’70s, what is less widely known is that the ci... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780141976853
Published by : Penguin Books Ltd
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ISBN: 9780141979878
Published by : Penguin Books Ltd
Series: Penguin Monarchs
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Cnut, or Canute, is one of the great 'what ifs' of English history. The Dane who became King of England after a long period of Viking attacks and settlement, his reign could have permanently shifted eleventh-century England's rule to Scandinavi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781472826800
Published by : Osprey
Series: Campaign
Volume: 316
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The battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 is one of the most important battles in English history. King Henry IV faced his erstwhile ally Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland in a bloody contest on a field outside the Shropshire town of Shrewsbury where two ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781911188193
Published by : Windgather Press
Volume: 1
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Hadrian Cook’s new account of the New Forest in southern England provides an historical narrative of the occupation and use of a vast area that was, for centuries, important as a Royal Hunting Forest and subject to many contentious laws and regula... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781445667669
Published by : Amberley Publishing
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Edward II is one of the most controversial kings of English history. He and the murdered Piers Gaveston were lovers, not merely `brothers-in-arms'. Influenced by royal favourites, Edward on numerous occasions brought England to the brink of civil ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198812388
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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It has long been established that the crisis of 1066 generated a florescence of historical writing in the first half of the twelfth century. Emily A. Winkler presents a new perspective on previously unqueried matters, investigating how historians'... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780141977768
Published by : Penguin Books Ltd
Series: Penguin Monarchs
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Henry VII was one of England's unlikeliest monarchs. An exile and outsider with barely a claim to the throne, his victory over Richard III at Bosworth Field seemed to many in 1485 like only the latest in the sequence of violent convulsions among E... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781846146909
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In early 1461, a seventeen-year-old boy won a battle on a freezing morning in the Welsh marches, and claimed the crown of England as Edward IV, first king of the usurping house of York. It was a time when old certainties had been shredded: by popu... .... Learn More