Download or read book The Last Days of Glory written by Tony Rennell and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Victoria's death in January 1901 shook Britain to its core, and reverberated not just throughout the Commonwealth, but around the world. She was a woman in her eighties, and yet it seems no one could contemplate the end of a reign that had lasted so long. Most could not remember a time when she was not Queen, and the very stability of everyday life seemed to depend on her regency. The anxiety of the government and the royal family about the prospect of the Queen's death was such that the news of her illness was deliberately concealed from the public for more than a week. When it came, people from England to Jamaica wept in the streets, and this grief was surpassed only by fear for the future. "God help us" was the standard reaction from all strata of society. The Last Days of Glory is the definitive account of those last 23 days in January 1901, when Victoria traveled to Osborne House to die. The momentous reaction to the Queen's passing attached to it more significance and a greater sense of change than the turn of the century had carried just a year earlier. Through the prism of those last days Tony Rennell presents us with a series of resonant and absorbing snapshots of a fading Empire at the end of the Victorian Age, and captures a nation coping with change, balancing comfortable nostalgia with the arrival of a new order.
Download or read book Henry V The Warrior King of 1415 written by Ian Mortimer and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-02-22 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning historian: “A new and convincing likeness of medieval England’s most iconic king” (The Sunday Times). This biography by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England takes an insightful look at the life of Henry V, casting new light on a period in history often held up as legend. A great English hero, Henry V was lionized by Shakespeare and revered by his countrymen for his religious commitment, his sense of justice, and his military victories. Here, noted historian and biographer Ian Mortimer takes a look at the man behind the legend and offers a clear, historically accurate, and realistic representation of a ruler who was all too human—and digs up fascinating details about Henry V’s reign that have been lost to history, including the brutal strategies he adopted at the Battle of Agincourt. “The most illuminating exploration of the reality of 15th-century life that I have ever read.” —The Independent “Compelling, exuberant . . . vivid.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times–bestselling author of The Romanovs: 1613–1918
Download or read book England s Last Glory written by David Miller and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Commentary on the Authorized English Version of the Gospel According to St John Compared with the Sinaitic Vatican and Alexandrine Manuscripts and Also with Dean Alford s Revised Translation by the Rev Francis Henry Dunwell With the Text written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book God s Secretaries written by Adam Nicolson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “This scrupulously elegant account of the creation of what four centuries of history has confirmed is the finest English-language work of all time, is entirely true to its subject: Adam Nicolson’s lapidary prose is masterly, his measured account both as readable as the curious demand and as dignified as the story deserves.” — Simon Winchester, author of Krakatoa In God's Secretaries, Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the era of the King James Bible and its translation, immersing us in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building but a book. A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the era of the Gunpowder Plot and the worst outbreak of the plague. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than the country had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn taut between these polarities. This was the world that created the King James Bible. It is the greatest work of English prose ever written, and it is no coincidence that the translation was made at the moment "Englishness," specifically the English language itself, had come into its first passionate maturity. The English of Jacobean England has a more encompassing idea of its own scope than any form of the language before or since. It drips with potency and sensitivity. The age, with all its conflicts, explains the book. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Download or read book British Battles on Land an Sea written by James Grant and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language By Samuel Johnson LL D and John Walker With the pronuntiation simplified and the addition of several thousand words By R S Jameson Second edition revised and corrected written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The English Bible Newly Divided Into Paragraphs with Concise Introductions to the Several Books and with Maps and Notes Etc Edited by R B Blackader written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The glory of England or A true description of many excellent prerogatiues whereby she triumpheth ouer all the nations by T G written by Thomas Gainsford and published by . This book was released on 1620 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weight of Glory written by C. S. Lewis and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2001-03-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses offer guidance and inspiration in a time of great doubt.These are ardent and lucid sermons that provide a compassionate vision of Christianity.
Download or read book Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion written by Strype John and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Strype's Annals of the Reformation is the most important eighteenth-century Protestant religious history of the Elizabethan period. Volume 3 Part 2 covers the year 1588: the attack of the Spanish Armada and England's famous victory. It includes an appendix of primary sources for the years 1581 to 1588.
