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Steven Veerapen
At the court of Henry VIII a historian charged with proving the king’s descent from King Arthur is found murdered, his body posed in a gruesome tableau. A reluctant Anthony…
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In this new biography, the story of James VI and I is laid bare, and a welter of scurrilous assumptions penned by his political opponents put to rest. What emerges…
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Spring, 1523. The King's chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, prepares to open Parliament at Blackfriars, but all is not well in Wolsey's household. A visiting critic of the Cardinal is found…
The Elizabethan era is generally understood to coincide with the blossoming of English language - it was the age of Shakespeare, Sidney, and Marlowe. Yet it is known also as…
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Anna of Denmark has been castigated as frivolous, vain, stupid, and more interested in pleasure than politics. This study aims to contextualise her not as a woman of minor significance…
