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Who was the ambitious Tudor noblewoman who pro
If she had given the monarch a male heir, the crowns of England and Scotland might never have been united
The Ear of the Beholder Huon Mallalieu (Thomas ...
The Barbary corsair ship appeared suddenly on the horizon, bristling with cannon. Its decks swarming with armed men, it sliced through the waves at a clip that its quarry – the British merchant ship A
The platinum blonde in British history
Austenland – is there such a place? If so, it’s to be found in drawing rooms and parlours, not in sweeping vistas. So it’s appropriate that the Hampshire village of Chawton, Jane Austen’s home for the
They’d have loved the drama of it – bowing out almost exactly ten years apart. Born in the same year and with the same initials, both queens of the bonkbuster. One was a Hollywood lioness, the other a