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Did Henry VIII really plan to have Anne Boleyns beloved dog thrown out the window? Did Jane Seymour deliberately get her maids to look less attractive than her? Was Elizabeth I secretly a man? Did King Edward VI de-feather an eagle in an epic temper tantrum? Who is the most sighted Tudor ghost of all time? Did Elizabeth I really have no teeth? Did one of the most famous Tudor palaces really get knocked down to pay off gambling debts? Who were there Grey sisters, and why is theirs one of the saddest Tudor stories of all?From Henry VII to Elizabeth I, this delightful book answers all these questions and more. Come with us as we delve into the people and places behind the Tudor myths & legends that are so world famous.Through various tales exploring the whole of the glittering dynasty, well learn about the lesser-known facts and figures behind these myths. Each reign serves up a wealth of fascinating historical stories to reveal the Tudor world in a new light.

We all know of of the various wars, the Famine and the pivotal events which have made the Ireland what it is today, but few know the stranger aspects of the nations past. From body snatchers, to pirate queens and Celtic vampires, Irelands hidden history is explored here in a book bound to thrill and astound you from the first page.

During the golden age of science, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a dedicated drive to accurately categorise nature and explain the natural world. Many enthusiastic naturalists, amateur and professional, set off to collect and classify plants and animals across the New World, and many of these finds still bear the names of those who discovered them today.The Noble Quest, previously Sightseers & Scholars: Scientific Travellers in the Golden Age of Discovery, features a new introduction that considers the growing catastrophic trend in species extinction today. The nine important individuals featured in the book encompass early naturalists William Bartram and Alexander von Humboldt; inquisitive aristocrats Charles Waterton and Prince Maximilian of Wied; professional collectors David Douglas, John Kirk Townsend and John Richardson; and the last of the field naturalists Henry Walter Bates and John Wesley Powell. All faced great adventures and hardship as they undertook their groundbreaking work, which makes for great armchair travel today.

Witches have existed in society for centuries. Traditionally, they were the midwives, the providers of herbal medicines, the people who understood biology and nature. They were real people who lived amongst us. They were our neighbours we knew them. But when the Scottish Reformation Party pushed through the Witchcraft Act in 1563, the healers became the hunted.The Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives is a treasure trove of documentation, dating as far back as the twelfth century. Amongst its shelves are the original, handwritten court records from the Aberdeen Witch Trials of 1597 - first-hand accounts of the words spoken on those dreadful days.Covering a brief history of the Scottish witch trials, the role of an obsessed king, and how it all came to an end, Contagious Enemies: The Aberdeen Witch Trials brings you these court records, transcribed and translated into modern-day English.

County Wicklows landscape is dotted with pre-Christian sites Baltinglass is known as the Hillfort Capital of Ireland. Saint Patrick landed here in 432 AD and the county also boasts ecclesiastical sites, the most impressive being Glendalough. Following the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169-70, Normans occupied the lowlands, but native Irish inhabited the uplands, leading to conflict throughout the Middle Ages. Wicklow became the last county to be shired in 1606.However, Wicklow witnessed more violence through the seventeenth century and it was only after 1700 that the elite felt safe enough to build great houses such as Powerscourt and Russborough. Wicklow was in turmoil during the 1798 rebellion. Economic recovery was halted by the tragedy of Famine. Later in the nineteenth century, the Parnells led the Home Rule movement, the Land League and the Ladies Land League. The twentieth century saw war, revolution and hardship before better times arrived after 1960. This rich history is all covered in this accessible little book.

Raised in a Yorkshire coal-mining town, Jeremy Granthams iconoclastic investment career was launched into the stratosphere by a few simple ideas: buy cheap, watch for bubbles, and stick to your guns when you know youre right.Grantham created one of the first index funds in the 1970s, pioneered quantitative investment in the 1980s, and embraced emerging markets before other firms saw their potential. He became famous when he accurately predicted and sidestepped a series of bubbles, and his firm skyrocketed to a peak of $155 billion in assets under management. But as his wealth grew, so did his concerns about the deficiencies of capitalism and the unfolding climate crisis. He decided - at the top of his game - to donate nearly all his wealth to environmental protection.With wit thats as cutting against himself as his critics, Grantham reveals how hunting for bargains requires understanding the inefficiencies of the market and the human behaviour that drives it. Ultimately, Grantham offers a deeply human, often heretical and quietly profound lens on investing today.

Reckoning with the Colonial Past to Bring Justice to the Present As White settlers spread across North America, they crafted and enacted an epic story of their God-given dominionover the land, over Indigenous nations, and over the future. Their narrative constructed a myth of innocence that justified a massive program of violence and dispossession by suppressing a darker history. That history still reverberates today, from settler Americas relations with the Indigenous nations of the United States to ways the land has been commodified as property. Its time for the whole truth to be told.In Undoing Manifest Destiny, L. Daniel Hawk exposes the belief systems and practices that settlers developed to justify the displacement, destruction, and cultural erasure of Indigenous peoples, beginning in the early American colonial period and extending to the present day. Writing as the descendant of White settlers and as a biblical scholar, he challenges settler Christians to uncover what the settler narrative denies and to work toward addressing historic injustices.In this book, Hawk combines settler colonial theory, historical analysis, and Christian theology to examine how settler America sought to erase Indigenous presence from lands taken by the United States and its colonial predecessors; offers a decolonizing perspective that challenges the church to acknowledge its complicity with the colonial project and to enter into dialogue directed toward setting things right; and highlights contemporary manifestations of colonialism in US interactions with its Indigenous citizens, demonstrating that past issues are still present and need to be addressed today. Hawk asserts that Christians were complicit with programs of erasure, and so Christians are called to confront and heal their residue today. Joining historical research with theology and biblical scholarship, Hawk helps us recognize the myths that shape the American imagination and to engage our faith for a better way forward.This book is an invaluable resource for scholars, educators, students, and readers invested in areas such as post- and de-colonial studies, race and ethnicity, United States history, and social justice. Deepen your understanding of history, confront unsettling truths, and work toward justice and healing with Undoing Manifest Destiny.

Forget 1066 the making of England began over a century earlier.When Viking armies first over-wintered in England, they opened a century of conflict and ambition. In Norway, Harald Fairhair rose from a regional chieftain to become its first king, while in England Alfred the Great preserved Wessex from conquest and laid the foundations for unity. His successors, Edward the Elder and Athelstan, extended that vision, leading to the creation of a single English kingdom after Athelstans decisive victory at Brunanburh in 937.Meanwhile, Haralds heirs struggled for Norway. Eric Bloodaxe briefly claimed the crown before being overthrown by his brother Hakon, fostered at Athelstans court. Exiled to Britain, Eric ruled in York until his violent death in 954, ending Norse kingship in England.This is the turbulent century when kings rose and fell, and when England and Norway first took shape amid rivalry, warfare and shifting alliances.

From the hopeful beginnings of Britains entry into the European project to the bitterness of Brexit, Continental Drift is a vivid, personal account of a political life spent at the heart of the European Parliament.As Europes longest-serving MEP, Bill Newton-Dunn offers a front-row view of the shifting tides in Britains often uneasy relationship with its continental neighbours. Spanning the four decades from 1979 to 2020, this lively memoir chronicles the currents of Euroscepticism, internal wranglings of UK delegations and the complex dance between Westminster and Brussels.But Continental Drift is more than political history: it is also rich with behind-the-scenes stories, sharp observations and colourful pen portraits of the characters who shaped Europe, from British premiers and fiery backbenchers to European visionaries and bureaucratic bruisers, not to mention impassioned Communists and rumoured Mafiosi. With dry wit and unsparing honesty, Newton-Dunn brings to life the dramas, debates and diplomatic showdowns that marked a turbulent era.Candid, compelling and frequently funny, Continental Drift is a timely reflection on Britains place in Europe and what was lost when the flag came down.

Examines the barbarians from Europe and beyond who harassed, eroded and eventually caused the disintegration of the Roman Empire. It includes the Huns, Mongolian horsemen who swept into Europe to form a short-lived empire from the Urals to the Rhine; the Visigoths, or western Goths, who sacked Rome in 410 and ruled Spain from Toledo until the Moorish conquest in 711; the Ostrogoths, or eastern Goths, who ruled Italy from 493 until the Emperor Justinian drove them out in 534; the Franks, a group of Germanic tribes who came to rule France under the Merovingians; and the Vandals, fierce Arian Christians who invaded Gaul and Spain around 400 and sacked Rome in 455. As the authors show, some, such as the Vandals in North Africa, had shortlived periods of supremacy and relatively insignificant effect on the areas they settled; others, such as the Franks, adapted to Roman ways to create the strong foundations of medieval and later nations. Throughout the text, the authors reconstruct the volatile world of pitched battle and invasion.

Neste livro original e fascinante, que incursiona pela literatura, pelas artes plásticas, pela medicina e pela política, Moacyr Scliar traça um panorama abrangente da história da melancolia e de suas repercusses na cultura brasileira numa narrativa em que erudiço e estilo se combinam de forma espirituosa e fluente.A modernidade nasce melancolica. Uma melancolia que ja aparecia em personagens biblicos e nos textos classicos da medicina grega, mas que se torna verdadeiro clima de epoca na passagem da Idade Media para o Renascimento, quando, paradoxalmente, novos horizontes so abertos nas ciencias e na arte. Aquela era tambem a epoca da Peste Negra, da caça as bruxas, da recluso dos loucos uma conjuntura de sombria ameaça, neutralizada pela euforia maniaca da caça as riquezas e da especulaço comercial. E ento que, cruzando o Atlantico, as naus europeias chegam ao Novo Mundo trazendo consigo as sementes da melancolia.Para contar essa historia, com erudiço e clareza, Moacyr Scliar reune conhecimento medico e talento de escritor. A narrativa se desdobra em tres momentos: a Antiguidade classica, a Renascença e o Brasil na transiço para a modernidade.

Essays from the Edge gathers fifty years of selected writing by Dennis Gray, one of British climbings most influential voices. These twenty-one essays, spanning one of British mountaineerings most exciting periods, provide a compelling narrative of a life studying the art of climbing and of living it first-hand on the cliffs and mountains of the world in the company of some of the sports most colourful characters of the last century.Vivid portraits anchor the collection: the legendary Joe Brown and Don Whillans, members of the Rock and Ice Club; American pioneers Royal Robbins, Jeff Lowe and Warren Harding; and unsung originals such as the Barley brothers, Robin and Tony. A wide-ranging 1973 interview with climber Allan Austin gives a fascinating insight into the Yorkshire scene of the early 1970s. Denniss commentary expands to cover other issues, such as the 1932 Kinder Mass Trespass, climbings debut in the Olympics and the development of modern rock climbing in Belgium.Broad in scope yet precise in observation, Essays from the Edge celebrates the values and spirit of British climbing.

In the 1920s, Adolf Rosenberger was one of Germanys best known racing car drivers. He was also co-founder and managing director of a design firm that had recently been launched by Ferdinand Porsche, and it was his job to ensure financing for the design firm a firm that provided important impetus during this time for technical innovation and racing car construction. When the firm fell into difficulties during the global business crisis, he ended up stepping away from his management role in the company, but remained active as partner and "foreign representative". The Jewish Rosenberger was however unable to escape the increasing persecution by the Nazis: in 1935 he lost his shares in the company and landed for a time in a concentration camp. After emigrating in 1938 he would go on over the following decades to develop a precarious new existence in the USA. Compensation and restitution proceedings that he initiated against the company would end up severing any remaining ties with the now internationally renowned sports car manufacturer. This book, drawing on documents that have remained unpublished until now, frames and analyses the exceptional and moving biography of Adolf Rosenberger.

Paul Martins Grand Tour is the story of the life of the popular Flog It! presenter, from his life as a musician and antiques dealer on the Portobello Road to being the star of the BBCs daytime schedules.It is also a Grand Tour, as Paul takes the reader on a journey through many of Britains regions, uncovering and celebrating the most intriguing and often previously unknown places, stories and people across the country. Fully illustrated in colour, Paul Martin highlights, in his own distinctive and enthusiasts voice, the very best of the sites, subjects and stories featured in his six years of travels filming one of the most beloved daytime shows in Britain.

"Bernardo não apresenta só os fatos; ele também fornece uma interpretação crítica sobre tudo aquilo que vê e cujo sentido convida o próprio leitor a refletir. Uma vez reunidas, suas colunas ganham am

Carlo Ancelotti venceu títulos nacionais nas cinco principais ligas da Europa, comandando clubes como Milan, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern de Munique, Chelsea e Real Madrid. Mas o feito que realmente o distingue de seus contemporaneos e seu historico Champions League. Como jogador, Ancelotti ergueu o trofeu duas vezes; como tecnico, levou seus times a gloria europeia em impressionantes cinco ocasies.Agora, iniciando uma nova e empolgante fase como treinador da Seleço Brasileira, Ancelotti reflete sobre sua paixo pelo titulo mais cobiçado do futebol mundial. O Sonho e uma rica autobiografia esportiva que nos leva para dentro da mente de um vencedor. Desde os sonhos de infancia com o trofeu ate os jogos decisivos, os jogadores marcantes e os momentoschave de cada campanha, conseguimos construir uma viso unica de um grande estrategista em aço alem de um retrato intimo da maior competiço do futebol de clubes.

Paying for a peerage - an illegal practice - feels like a very modern form of corruption, one that both the Labour and Conservative parties have been happy to indulge in at times during the early twenty-first century. Except, of course, it was happening almost a century ago.Meet Maundy Gregory, actor, journalist, publishing proprietor, conman, embezzler, MI5 spy - and the man you went to see if you had the money to pay for a peerage in the post-First World War years.Cutting a dash across high society of the 1920s - he was in attendance at the wedding of the future George VI - the immaculately oiled and overdressed Gregory would happily pockets thousands for playing Mr Fixit for wannabe knights and lords, and swell the coffers of Lloyd Georges Liberal Party to millions of pounds.Business was brisk, and business was brazen. Visitors to his lavish office on Parliament Street, with a direct line to Number 10, would be wined and dined and, after paying up, leave satisfied that they would be next on the list for a knighthood or barony. Nothing could be guaranteed, of course, and it was a strictly no refunds business.But Gregory was also suspected of being something else, to add to his impressive list of accomplishments: a murderer. As the political winds changed, the debts mounted up and the walls closed in around him, he somehow managed to inherit his mistresss not inconsiderable savings when she scribbled a new will on the back of a menu and was suddenly taken ill ...In The Man Who Sold Honours, Stephen Bates lifts the lid on the truth about this long-forgotten character who remains the only person ever to be successfully prosecuted under the sale of honours act of 1925. A powerful preview of the scandals to come in Britain in recent years, this is the story of the original honours tout - a riches-to-rags tale of greed, corruption and murder in the interwar years.

Não importa o quanto a democracia liberal se aperfeiçoa, o racismo evolui junto e segue sendo um elemento crucial na manutenção das desigualdades sociais e no exercício do poder. Essa é a tese que o

This comprehensive guide to the flags of the world provides concise, accurate coverage of every country in the world, giving the history, meaning, and symbolism of national flags, together with large-scale and smaller locator maps. The Complete Guide to Flags of the World, 4th Edition includes the history of flags, the color flags in over 220 countries and territories, flags of international organizations, large-scale and detailed locator maps for easy reference, up-to-date data and statistics for all countries, information about the history and symbolism of each flag, a section on de facto and emerging states, and a full index. This 4th edition comes with 38 updated flags and new, revised information for all things flags.

O CONFLITO QUE REDEFINIU O SÉCULO XX E MOLDOU O MUNDO EM QUE VIVEMOS. De 1939 a 1945, a Segunda Guerra Mundial transformou a humanidade para sempre. Neste livro, o leitor é guiado por uma narrativa clara e detalhada que explica os caminhos que levaram ao confronto global, os regimes autoritarios que ascenderam em meio a crise, as batalhas decisivas em terra, mar e ar, e os horrores do Holocausto. Ao abordar desde a ascenso de Hitler e Mussolini ate a criaço da ONU e o inicio da Guerra Fria, esta obra oferece um panorama completo e acessivel da guerra que mobilizou continentes e redefiniu fronteiras, ideologias e valores. Mais que um livro de historia, e um convite a reflexo sobre o passado e sobre os desafios que ainda ameaçam a democracia no presente.