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Hadrian's Wall
Everyday Life on a Roman Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Hadrian’s Wall is a major World Heritage site, set in stunning countryside in Cumbria and Northumberland, where the Wall and its forts are the most visited Roman remains in Britain. It runs through the narrow gap across the Pennines between the Solway Estuary in the west to the appropriately named...
The House of Beaufort
The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The Wars of the Roses saw family fight family over the greatest prize – the throne of England. But what gave the eventual victor of these brutal and complex wars, Henry Tudor, the right to claim the crown? How exactly did an illegitimate line come to challenge the English monarchy? While the Houses...
by John Ashdown-Hill
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The Wars of the Roses call to mind bloody battles, treachery and deceit, and a cast of characters known to us through fact and fiction: Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Richard III, Warwick the Kingmaker, the Princes in the Tower, Henry Tudor. But the whole era also creates a level of bewilderment...
The Wars of the Roses
The Key Players in the Struggle for Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In the second half of the fifteenth century, for over thirty years, civil war tore England apart. However, its roots were deeper and its thorns were felt for longer than this time frame suggests. The Wars of the Roses were not a coherent period of continual warfare. There were distinct episodes of...
Henry VII
The Maligned Tudor King
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII, has been called the most unlikely King of England. Yet his rise from obscurity was foretold by the bards, and by 1485, the familial bloodbath of the Wars of the Roses left Henry as the sole adult Lancastrian claimant to the throne. The hunchback usurper Richard III...
by David Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
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. Richard’s...
Mary Rose
Tudor Princess, Queen of France, the Extraordinary Life of Henry VIII's Sister
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
'A paradise - tall, slender, grey-eyed, possessing an extreme pallor.' The contemporary view of Henry VIII's younger sister, Princess Mary Rose, as one of the most beautiful princesses in Europe, was an arresting one. Glorious to behold, this Tudor princess, with her red hair flowing loose to her...
Alarmstart: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience in the Second World War
Northwestern Europe – from the Battle of Britain to the Battle of Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Alarmstart (scramble) charts the experiences of the German fighter pilots in the Second World War, based on extensive recollections of veterans as well as primary documents, diaries and flying log books, with photographs from the veterans themselves, many never previously published. For anyone interested...
by Terry C. Treadwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
At the start of the First World War, little thought had been given to how aircraft would play a part in the conflict. The Royal Flying Corps consisted of five squadrons, one equipped with observation balloons and the others with aircraft. In fact, so advanced was Britain that its squadrons were the...
by Paul Chrystal
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
One way or another the Romans spent quite a lot of time in bed, in between conquering and civilising the known world. The men were intent on demonstrating their power and virility; the women were busy conceiving, delivering and raising as many children as possible, in order to keep Rome topped up...
Royal Navy Search and Rescue
A Centenary Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Today, the sight of a helicopter speeding toward some destination is familiar enough, but take a moment to consider: is there a life at stake? Is someone in peril and on a knife edge of survival, and will the helicopter crew be selflessly placing themselves in the most dangerous of situations for...
The Dam Busters
An Operational History of Barnes Wallis' Bombs
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Barnes Wallis was the most famous inventor and designer of the Second World War. Thanks to the film and book of The Dam Busters, he is still a household name today. His story is not just of the 'bouncing' bombs that destroyed the Mohne and Eder dams but also of the other devices he invented, from...
Norfolk at War
Wings of Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
During the Second World War, Norfolk was truly on the 'front line'. Being so close to the Continent, air raids were frequent - Norwich in particular suffered badly - and invasion was a very real and persistent threat for the people of the county. The men and women of Norfolk took up positions in all...
by Stella Rutter
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
At 10.15 a.m. on Saturday 3 June 1944, a shaft of sunlight fell across my board, sending a brilliant white reflection into my eyes. Bother, I thought, now the ink will dry too quickly … Moving so that the shadow of my head covered my work I became aware that Joe Smith and a military officer had...