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

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

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

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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...

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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!

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...

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...

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

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

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

An illuminating and evocatively illustrated tour of 40 of the great cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations, and which in turn h...

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 jubilant, slow-burn romance filled with luxury and longing. Library Journal's Best Indie Ebook 2017 Lady Amelia Brockett, known to her family as ...

Reducere. Discover the inspiring story of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, in this fascinating kids' biography. At just 2...

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: ...

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Napoleon is one of history's most fascinating figures. But his complex relationship with Rome--both with antiquity and his contemporary conflicts w...

It is the Georgian heritage that most strongly defines Ireland's capital city. Here, Diarmuid O Grada shows us a Dublin quite unlike that depicted ...

In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true stor...