Amberley Publishing: 2711 books
Shakespeare's Dark Lady
Amelia Bassano Lanier The Woman Behind Shakepeare's Plays?
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she became mistress to the fiftysix-year-old Lord Hunsdon, Henry VIII’s reputed son by Mary Boleyn. As Lord Chamberlain, Hunsdon was in charge of the English...
Henry VIII's Last Love
The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady in Waiting to the Tudors
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In 1533, Katherine Willoughby married Charles Brandon, Henry VIII’s closest friend. She would go on to serve at the court of every Tudor monarch except Henry VII and Mary Tudor. Duchess of Suffolk at the age of fourteen, she became a powerful woman ruling over her own households and wielding influence...
The Beauty of Her Age
A Tale of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Yolande Duvernay was born in poverty in Paris in 1812. Under the control of a formidable stage mother, she became a celebrated ballerina – the favourite dancer of Princess Victoria – renowned for her beauty, grace, and provocative style on stage. Sold for sexual assignations from puberty, she...
Thomas Cromwell
Servant to Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Thomas Cromwell was a self-made lawyer who served first Cardinal Wolsey and then Henry VIII. His time with Wolsey served him well in his work for the king after the cardinal’s fall from power in 1529. Cromwell’s time in office from 1530 until his execution in 1540 was one of the most crucial periods...
The Seymours of Wolf Hall
A Tudor Family Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Although the Seymours arrived with the Normans, it is with Jane, Henry VIII’s third queen, and her brothers – Edward, Duke of Somerset, and Thomas, Lord Seymour of Sudeley – that they became prominent. Jane bore Henry his longed-for son, Edward VI, and both her brothers achieved prominence through...
Edward II
The Unconventional King
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in English history. His wife took a lover and...
Owain Glyndŵr - The Story of the Last Prince of Wales
The Story of the Last Prince of Wales
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
If it had not been for Owain Glyndŵrs 15-year struggle against overwhelming odds, the Welsh would not have survived as Europes oldest nation. His war is the defining era in the history of Wales.
Yet Glyndŵr is hardly known a cultured, literate warrior who was never betrayed or captured and...
Jonathan Wild
Conman and Cutpurse
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Jonathan Wild (born c.1683), probably Britain's most well-known criminal of the 18th century, was known as the director of a 'corporation of thieves'. He learned his 'trade' while serving a sentence in a debtor's prison, and established a curious reputation as 'Thief Taker General of Great Britain...
Isabella of France
The Rebel Queen
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Isabella of France married Edward II in January 1308, and afterwards became one of the most notorious women in English history. In 1325, she was sent to her homeland to negotiate a peace settlement between her husband and her brother Charles IV, king of France. She refused to return. Instead, she...
by Hugh Llewelyn
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Hugh Llewelyn has travelled throughout Britain to gather this collection of his photographs of the diesel shunters. In addition to the main classes deployed by British Railways from the 1940s up to the present time, he also covers many of the rarer engines to be found working the docks and industrial...
by Kevin Derrick
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Looking Back at Stanier Locomotives is a photographic album depicting the designs of Sir William Arthur Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from the 1930s. With an extensive selection of colour photographs taken during the 1950s and 1960s, this volume covers...
Margaret of York
The Diabolical Duchess
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The amazing life of Margaret of York, the woman who tried to overthrow the Tudors. Reared in a dangerous and unpredictable world Margaret of York, sister of Richard III, would become the standard bearer of the House of York and 'The menace of the Tudors'. This alluring and resourceful woman was Henry...
George and Robert Stephenson
The Railway Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times. They carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed, transforming the pace and style of everyday life. We owe them to two men who, father and son, can lay claim to be the most important engineers of their time, George...
Katharine of Aragon
The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's First Unfortunate Wife
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Katharine of Aragon was a central figure in one of the most dramatic and formative events of Tudor history – England’s breach with Rome after a thousand years of fidelity. She lived through traumatic and revolutionary times and her personal drama was played out against dramas of European significance....