Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe

Reducere. DescriptionA captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grand...

Queen Victoria's dynastically tactical puppeteering of her thirty surviving grandchildren's love lives is revealed at its full extent in this inter...

The only book to investigate the sudden appearance of the haemophilia gene in the Royal Family.Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): W T W Pot...

A social history of a fifty year period, spanning the Regency into the Victorian era

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Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Peter J. KeatIllustration(s): 90 photographs, illustrationsNumber of pages: 96Collection: Series XPublicat...

Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort, had nine children who, despite their very different characters remained a close-knit family. Inevita...

Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded stre...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the legendary Romulus killed his brother Remus and founded the city of Rome in 753 BCE, Plovdiv--today the second-largest city in B...

Reducere. 'This admirable biography is a moving tribute to a prince who overcame much suffering, and it gives us a better understanding both of Victorian roy...

Reducere. Poor Queen Victoria! She loves to swim, but can't quite figure out how to get to the water without her devoted subjects glimpsing her swimming suit...

The Night That Changed Everything Helen Lacey He vowed to always be there for her... But not as her husband!

Reducere. Born to the chief of the Yoruba Egbado Tribe in Oke-Odan, Aina survived a raid by King Ghezo of Dahomey at a young age. Before the king could use h...

Written entirely in the first person and fully based on accurate historical accounts, Michael Farah imagines how this royal family would have descr...

An evocative telling of the life of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's last-born child, and of a sometimes fraught royal mother-daughter relationsh...

Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, Admiral of the Fleet, was the second son of Queen Victoria. At 18 he was elected King of Greece...

This is a new history of Britain's imperial wars during the nineteenth century. Covering wars waged in Asia, New Zealand, and Africa, it traces the...

The lives and mutually supportive friendship of Queen Ena (Victoria Eugenia), consort of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and her cousin Bee, Infanta Be...

Reducere. DescriptionSarah Bonetta Forbes, 'Queen Victoria's African Princess', was rescued from Africa as a girl of seven after the slaughter of her family....

Reducere. From the Introduction: What were the facets of Queen Victoria's character and position that resulted in her name encapsulating the values of an ent...

A chronicle of ten mid-Victorian trials that features brother versus brother, aristocrats fighting commoners, an imposter to a family's fortune, an...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Kiley DunbarNumber of pages: 368Collection: Port Willow BayPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 313 x 28Cover type: ...

Reducere. DescriptionDecorated with a breathtaking landscape and a treasured collection of diversely styled bridges, the Merritt Parkway runs thirty-seven an...

Reducere. But engrossing as these small wars are--and they bristle with bizarre, tragic, and often humorous incident--it is the officers and men who fought t...

Find out all about today's British royal family with this engaging seriesPublisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor(s): Julia AdamsNumber of pages:...

Reducere. "Gaslamp Fantasy, " or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike....

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From bronze axes of the Viking conquests to the American homesteader's felling axe, this is a tool that has shaped human history like few others. A...

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Reducere. Minutes before 1pm on March 21st, 1893 the body of respected businessman Louis Schilling was found mutilated in the office of his Kalamazoo meat ma...

In this sweeping, immersive novel, Clare McHugh draws readers into the mesmerizing world of the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria - Princess Vicky ...

The Queen of a small Country! Those who are accustomed to see rulers of greater lands can little understand what it means. It means work and anxiet...

Reducere. DescriptionThose who enjoyed the TV series The Crown will enjoy this entertaining and well-researched book which fills in the background to centuri...

Publisher: Hal Leonard Europe LimitedNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 191 x 118 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s):...

Blacker's Boys tells the First World War history of the 9th (Service) Battalion, Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) (County Armagh). One o...

Reducere. Extraordinary marriages don't just happen. They flow from grace-filled, faithful, and fruitful covenants of love.About the AuthorRyan and Mary-Rose...

Reducere. Ellen Wayles Coolidge arrived in London in June 1838 at the advent of Queen Victoria's reign--the citizens were still celebrating the coronation. D...

DescriptionIn Timelines, John Haywood presents a grand sweep of global history in an immediately accessible format. Using concise, insightful, and ...

From the boardroom to the bedroom... Playboy CEO Ezio will do anything to save the deal of a lifetime. Even persuade his prim personal assistant Ma...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Nicholas CraneNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 28Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. Connecticut State Historian Walter Woodward helps us understand how people and events in Connecticut's past played crucial roles in forming the cul...

Winner of the Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Scholarship Marie Antoinette has remained atop the popular cultural landscape for centuries for ...

Patent documents describe inventions and offer accurate information about the history of technology. This book shows how patents and the inventions...

A fascinating account of Darwin's groundbreaking work on fossils, richly illustrated with special photography and accurate reconstructions.

A unique collection of works that marked the development of philosophy from classical times to the new millennium.Publisher: The Ivy PressAuthor(s)...

Contributor(s): Author: Kate StrasdinEditor: Joanne B. EicherQueen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a ro...