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Henry VIII in 100 Objects

Author : Paul Kendall
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1526731290
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Henry VIII in 100 Objects written by Paul Kendall and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Full of excellent and pristine photographs of many items and places that shaped the life of one of England’s most fascinating kings . . . five stars.” —UK Historian Henry VIII is one of history’s most memorable monarchs. Popularly known for his six wives, and the unfortunate fate which befell Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, Henry initiated many reforms and changes which still affect our lives today. In this engaging and hugely informative book, the author takes us on a journey across England, from Deal Castle on the south coast, to Tower Green where Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard lost their heads, and far north to Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire. Along the way we see places where Henry stayed, where the Mary Rose, one of his great warships, was recovered, the homes of his consorts, and Smithfield where prominent individuals convicted of heresy were burned at the stake. Travel, then, not just across the country, but also back in time through 100 objects from the days of the second Tudor monarch—Henry VIII. “Because the items and places are so varied, the book has a wealth of information and the author has done a lot of research to present as much detail as possible . . . [a] really well-written and illustrated book about the people, places and objects that would have been familiar to Henry VIII.” —Tudor Blogger “Beautifully and profusely illustrated throughout . . . an extraordinarily informative and inherently fascinating introduction to the life and times of Henry VIII.” —Midwest Book Review

A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects

Author : John Matusiak
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750991254
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects written by John Matusiak and published by History Press. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of Tudor England captured, revealed and explored in 100 defining objects

The Tudors in 100 Objects

Author : John Matusiak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750961806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Tudors in 100 Objects written by John Matusiak and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tudors in 100 Objects sets out to examine the material remains of a seminal period in English history and thereby explore the values, hopes, achievements, fears, and habits of the men and women who helped to make it what it was. The result is a compelling journey into a far-off world where limited life expectancy, back-breaking work, grinding poverty, violence, cruelty, inequality, intolerance, harsh justice, superstition, and widespread illiteracy went hand-in-hand with untold opulence, intense religious faith, high moral principle, cultural refinement, bravery, tenacity, inventiveness, and an unbridled zest for living. From birthing chairs and prosthetic arms to witches' stools, pocket watches, fuming pots, codpieces, ear scoops, flushing lavatories, bollock daggers, and ducking stools, the whole vivid panorama of Tudor life is laid bare in a provocative and frequently myth-shattering narrative, firmly founded upon contemporary accounts and the most up-to-date results of modern scholarship.

A History of Royal Britain in 100 Objects

Author : Gill Knappett
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1841659657
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book A History of Royal Britain in 100 Objects written by Gill Knappett and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1000 years of royal history told through 100 fascinating objects. From the glory of coronation regalia to coins, from imposing statues to stamps, from distinguished medals to monuments, and from beautiful artworks to Edward VIII's abdication document, each item in this book has a fascinating story to tell. Ordered chronologically by monarch, from Alfred the Great to Queen Elizabeth II, this fully illustrated book takes a regal journey through the centuries. Discover the significance of each object – some famous, others more obscure – and how the royal ruler connected to it shaped the course of history in this celebration of the British monarchy. Featured are William I's eleventh century survey, more famously known as The Domesday Book; the world's first ever postage stamp, the Penny Black, with a cameo-style portrait of Queen Victoria; Edward VIII's abdication document; the written birth announcement of Queen Elizabeth II, placed outside Buckingham Palace as per royal custom; and many more.

Wolsey

Author : John Matusiak
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075095776X
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Wolsey written by John Matusiak and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butcher's son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle – yet, to some, an arrogant upstart. As Lord Chancellor to the incorrigible Henry VIII he achieved much both at home and abroad, but his failure to achieve the mighty monarch's divorce from Catherine of Aragon saw him brought to his knees. John Matusiak explores the pragmatic cardinal's life and career to uncover a man of contradictions and extremes whose meteoric rise was marked by an equally inexorable descent into desperation, as he attempted in vain to satisfy the tempestuous master whose ambition ultimately broke him. Far from being another familiar portrait of an overweight and overweening spider or cautionary tale of pride preceding a fall, this is the gripping story of how consummate talent, noble intentions and an eagle eye for the main chance can contrive with the vagaries of power politics to raise an individual to unheard of heights before finally consuming him.

A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects

Author : John Matusiak
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750969288
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects written by John Matusiak and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and superstition went hand-in-hand with opulence, religious virtue and a thriving cultural landscape, at once familiar and alien to the modern reader. John Matusiak sets out to shed new light on the lives and times of the Tudors by exploring the objects they left behind. Among them, a silver-gilt board badge discarded at Bosworth Field when Henry VII won the English crown; a signet ring that may have belonged to Shakespeare; the infamous Halifax gibbet, on which some 100 people were executed; scientific advancements such as a prosthetic arm and the first flushing toilet; and curiosities including a ladies’ sun mask, ‘Prince Arthur’s hutch’ and the Danny jewel, which was believed to be made from the horn of a unicorn. The whole vivid panorama of Tudor life is laid bare in this thought-provoking and frequently myth-shattering narrative, which is firmly founded upon contemporary accounts and the most up-to-date results of modern scholarship. "Everything you wanted to know about the Merrie England of the Tudors and some things you probably did not. If the Tudors seem far removed, they are also curiously modern. They had spectacles and metal prosthetic arms, while a “fuming pot” was but a prototype Air Wick. Matusiak’s mini essays accompanying the photographs are perfectly sculpted and the book is beautiful to hold." - Charlotte Heathcote, The Sunday Express

Henry VIII: A History of his Most Important Places and Events

Author : Andrew Beattie
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399007793
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Henry VIII: A History of his Most Important Places and Events written by Andrew Beattie and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Henry VIII is well known: he is famed throughout the world as the charismatic king of England who married six wives (and executed two of them), who broke with Rome and dissolved England’s monasteries, and who grew from a Renaissance prince into a lustful, egotistical and callous tyrant. He is the subject of scholarly and popular biographies and of numerous fictional works, from John Fletcher and William Shakespeare’s jointly authored play Henry VIII to contemporary novels, films and TV series. But this book tells the story of Henry VIII in a very different way to any of these: through the places where the events of his life unfolded. From Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London to the site of the Field of the Cloth of Gold near Calais where Henry met the French King Francis I for a week of pageantry in 1520, and from his lavish palaces in London to quieter manor houses in the English countryside which he visited during his annual summer “progress”, a whole new light is thrown on this most compelling of historical figures. While some sites associated with Henry are now very ruinous – such as Woking Palace in Surrey, which Henry remodeled into a lavish royal residence but which is now little more than a few tumbledown walls, or Greenwich Palace, where he was born, of which only a few remnants from his era remain – others, most famously Hampton Court, are much more substantial; the book looks at Henry’s connections with each site in turn, along with the conditions that today’s visitors to the site can expect, beginning with the Thames-side palaces from Greenwich upstream to Hampton Court, before broadening its scope to include properties and sites outside London, in the West and North of England and in Northern France.

A History of Cricket in 100 Objects

Author : Gavin Mortimer
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847659594
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book A History of Cricket in 100 Objects written by Gavin Mortimer and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the preserve of the English, now, for nations the world over, summertime means cricket bats to be oiled, rain forecasts analysed and tea in the pavilion. Cricket has enthralled us since the seventeenth century. But what is it about the game that provokes such fervour? Award-winning sports author Gavin Mortimer calls together a cast of salt-of-the-earth Yorkshiremen, American billionaires and dashing Indian princes to tell the strange and remarkable tale of cricket's journey from medieval village sport of 'club-ball' to the global media circus graced by superstars from Denis Compton to Sachin Tendulkar. If you've ever wanted to know what a hoop skirt has to do with overarm bowling, why England fight Australia over a burnt bail, or how to avoid tickling a jaffa in the corridor of uncertainty, Mortimer chalks up a stunning century of tales in the first truly accessible global history of cricket.

A New History of the Future in 100 Objects

Author : Adrian Hon
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262360381
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book A New History of the Future in 100 Objects written by Adrian Hon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting imagined history looking back on the twenty-first century through one hundred of its artifacts, from silent messaging systems to artificial worlds on asteroids. In the year 2082, a curator looks back at the twenty-first century, offering a history of the era through a series of objects and artifacts. He reminisces about the power of connectivity, which was reinforced by such technologies as silent messaging--wearable computers that relay subvocal communication; quotes from a self-help guide to making friends with "posthumans"; describes the establishment of artificial worlds on asteroids; and recounts pro-democracy movements in epistocratic states. In A New History of the Future in 100 Objects, Adrian Hon constructs a possible future by imagining the things it might leave in its wake.

A History of the World in 100 Objects

Author : Neil MacGregor
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141966831
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book A History of the World in 100 Objects written by Neil MacGregor and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them. The book's range is enormous. It begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai gorge in Africa, and ends with an object from the 21st century which represents the world we live in today. Neil MacGregor's aim is not simply to describe these remarkable things, but to show us their significance - how a stone pillar tells us about a great Indian emperor preaching tolerance to his people, how Spanish pieces of eight tell us about the beginning of a global currency or how an early Victorian tea-set tells us about the impact of empire. Each chapter immerses the reader in a past civilisation accompanied by an exceptionally well-informed guide. Seen through this lens, history is a kaleidoscope - shifting, interconnected, constantly surprising, and shaping our world today in ways that most of us have never imagined. An intellectual and visual feast, it is one of the most engrossing and unusual history books published in years.

The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth, Etc

Author : Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth, Etc written by Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury and published by . This book was released on 1683 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Fat Was Henry VIII?

Author : Raymond Lamont-Brown
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750968621
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book How Fat Was Henry VIII? written by Raymond Lamont-Brown and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered how fat Henry VIII really was? Or what made Mary I 'Bloody'? Over many hundreds of years, British royalty has had its fair share of accidents, rumours, scandals, misrepresentations and misconceptions. For instance, could Richard III be innocent of the deaths of the 'Princes in the Tower'? And what really happened between Queen Victoria and her Highland servant John Brown? In today's world, where newspapers clamour to report new revelations about the Royal Family, this informative and quirky book gives the inquisitive reader an in-depth look at the secrets of our past royals. For anyone curious about what went on behind the palace walls, Raymond Lamont-Brown answers those intriguing, confusing and mysterious questions we might have about our monarchs.

The Inventory of King Henry VIII: The transcript

Author : David Starkey
Publisher : Harvey Miller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Inventory of King Henry VIII: The transcript written by David Starkey and published by Harvey Miller. This book was released on 1998 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inventory is not only a catalogue of magnificence but also a key text for evaluating the successes and failures of the Tudor monarchy. Henry VIII had extravagant ideas of image and authority and loved his possessions, amongst which where over 2,000 pieces of tapestry, 2,028 items of gold and silver plate and 41 growns. Although he left the country with heavy debts and an empty exchequer, he was far from bankrupting the monarchy as some scholars have suggested. Indeed the Inventory allows us to calculate that at the time of his death the contents of his palaces and wardrobes were worth about oe300,000 and the military and naval stores a further oe300,000. Most of what the King owned has unfortunately since disappeared. Yet the Inventory tells us what once existed, enables us to identify surviving objects and also helps once belonged to hem. The transcription of the inventory is accompanied by a historical introduction, a glossary of technical terms, and an exhaustive Index which is a major tool of scholarship in its own right.

Observations and remarks upon the lives and reigns of King Henry VIII., King Edward VI., Queen Mary I., Queen Elizabeth, and King James I., with particular characters ... of all their favourites, and the most eminent ... persons ... By the author of the History of England in 2 vol. 8o [i.e. The history of England faithfully extracted from authentic records, etc. London, 1702?]. Third edition

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Author : Henry VIII (King of England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Observations and remarks upon the lives and reigns of King Henry VIII., King Edward VI., Queen Mary I., Queen Elizabeth, and King James I., with particular characters ... of all their favourites, and the most eminent ... persons ... By the author of the History of England in 2 vol. 8o [i.e. The history of England faithfully extracted from authentic records, etc. London, 1702?]. Third edition written by Henry VIII (King of England) and published by . This book was released on 1712 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Henry VIII

Author : Michael A. R. Graves
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Henry VIII written by Michael A. R. Graves and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few historical figures are as familiar as King Henry VIII. Few kings have popular images created out of so much misinformation: that he was short, had six wives and a legion of mistresses, contracted syphilis and became a Protestant. Henry was a maze of contradictions and the object of much contemporary praise and criticism, adulation and condemnation. He had impressive strengths but also formidable weaknesses, amongst them inconstancy, financial irresponsibility, and a capacity for brutality. At the same time, his rule was vibrant, often exciting and dramatic, and of major significance for England's future. Michael Graves examines this complex personality and sorts out the reality from the myths to provide a highly readable study of early modern kingship as practised by one man.

The Inventory of King Henry VIII

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ISBN 13 : 9781872501949
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Inventory of King Henry VIII written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry VIII owned over 2000 pieces of tapestry and 2028 items of gold and silver plate. This work catalogues his inventory and acts as a source of information for the study of Tudor society. Volume two includes essays and illustrations which evaluate the objects in monetary and social terms.

A Complete History of England: I. The history of King Henry VIII., written by Edward, lord Herbert of Cherbury

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Complete History of England: I. The history of King Henry VIII., written by Edward, lord Herbert of Cherbury written by and published by . This book was released on 1706 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: