U.K. History
Wendy J. Dunn
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Monarch and Commander – Charles I in Battle
King Charles of Great Britain, Ireland and France was also in 1642, Captain General of the Royalist forces in the English Civil War. Fighting the rebellious Parliamentarians with both these huge responsibilities was a great and daunting task.
Thoughts on Women's History: 2004 Online Women's History Month.
Please come and join us online in March 2004 - bring your thoughts and knowledge and arguments and favourite books. Share your thoughts with
us. Share your knowledge with us. Argue!
Rose of York: Love and War: A novel of Richard III.
Richard and The Queen's Brother.
Author Sandra Worth discusses Anthony Woodville and his relationship with Richard III.
Richard and The Queen’s Brother (Part one.)
Author Sandra Worth discusses Anthony Woodville and his relationship with Richard III.
Britain's network of bunkers from the Cold War Years.
Lark Rise to Candleford - book review
This book describes life in a small English hamlet at a time of change, a time when the lives of the labouring rural poor were changing due to the effects of industry and mechanisation.
Examining two forms of punishment which were practised from Medieval times, and why a man would sell his wife.
Linlithgow Palace, birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots
It was this week in 1587 that Mary Queen of Scots was executed. Let's take a look at the place where she was born.
Not Bill Bryson's favourite Welsh town, Blaenau Ffestiniog!
A brief look at this town in North Wales renowned for it's slate.