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  • The Roman Empire in Transition and Crisis

    An Alternative History AD 651-950

    by Timothy Venning ...
    Explores the rise and fall of Roman emperors, their struggles, family politics, and global influence.This is not a success story but one of transition and ultimate fall. It is detailed, hugely researched, full of action, peronality, and a vivid narrative of political struggle for imperial power as Roman Emperor. It is especially impresive on the role of women, the tangled personal lives, of the ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Royal Mysteries of the Anglo-Saxons and Early Britain

    by Timothy Venning ...
    A thought-provoking exploration of British history and intrigue about royal and political society.Royal mysteries never fail to intrigue people. The "mysteries", unraveled and analyzed, are of enduring fascination and full of tragedy, suffering and pathos but also heroism and romance.Royal Mysteries of the Anglo-Saxons and Early Britain is based on deep research in original sources including rare ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Royal Mysteries of the Stuart and Georgian Periods

    by Timothy Venning ...
    Both interesting and disturbing, learn all about the alleged attempt to murder James I and VI before the became King of England, the plots at court involving 'poisoned tarts', to the marriage court scandal of George III. 'There is nothing new under the sun', a phrase ascribed originally to King Solomon, applies to the present book, with echoes of 'modern' themes exposing royal scandal, sex, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tudors

    An Alternative History of Britain

    by Timothy Venning ...
    A renowned historian examines some of the most crucial junctions of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Britain—and how they could have gone differently.Timothy Venning's series of alternative histories explores the pathways of British events from the Anglo-Saxon Age to the English Civil War. In this volume, he presents an in-depth analysis of the Tudor period. As always, Venning discusses the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fall of Cromwell's Republic and the Return of the King

    From Commonwealth to Stuart Monarchy, 1657–1670

    by Timothy Venning ...
    This book completes the series of studies of the 'British Revolution of the Three Kingdoms of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland' and covers the period from the fall of the 'failed state' and Protectorate in 1657 to the restoration of the Stuart monarchy and Charles II in 1660, examines the Restoration settlement in depth and a high point in Stuart pro-French and Catholic policy - contrary to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Royal Mysteries

    The Medieval Period

    by Timothy Venning ...
    An in-depth look at the true crime tales surrounding the British royal family during the eleventh to fifteenth centuries.Royal murder mysteries never fail to intrigue readers and TV viewers. Here are some of the Middle Ages' most haunting and horrific episodes. Based on the latest historical research and historiography, and authentic and rare sources, including archaeology and DNA evidence, these ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Chronology of Ancient Greece

    by Timothy Venning ...
    This helpful reference offers a timeline of ancient Greece's political and military history.This chronological history begins with the necessarily approximate course of events in Bronze and early Iron Age, as estimated by the most reliable scholarship and the legendary accounts of this period. From the Persian Wars onwards, a year-by-year chronology is constructed from the ancient historical ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The King Arthur Mysteries

    Arthur's Britain & Early Medieval World

    by Timothy Venning ...
    An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the history of the Arthurian phenomenon - the imaginary and historical world of the great British warlord and one of the huge historical mysteries of early and medieval Britain. The Arthurian story, based on fact and fiction, is central to Britain's 'creation myth' and the concept of Britain's heroic past. This is a deeply researched and scholarly but ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Normans and Early Plantagenets

    by Timothy Venning ...
    Series series An Alternative History of Britain
    Continuing his exploration of the pathways of British history, Timothy Venning examines the turning points of the period from the death of William I to the reign of Edward III and a little beyond. As always, he discusses the crucial junctions at which History could easily have taken a different turn and analyses the possible and likely results. While necessarily speculative to a degree, the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The English Civil War

    by Timothy Venning ...
    Series series An Alternative History of Britain
    With hindsight, the victory of Parliamentarian forces over the Royalists in the English Civil War may seem inevitable but this outcome was not a foregone conclusion. Timothy Venning explores many of the turning points and discusses how they might so easily have played out differently. What if, for example, Charles I had capitalized on his victory at Edgehill by attacking London without delay? ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The War of the Roses

    An Alternative History of Britain

    by Timothy Venning ...
    Timothy Venning's exploration of the alternative paths that British history might easily have taken moves on to the Wars of the Roses. What if Richard of York had not given battle in vain? How would a victory for Warwick the Kingmaker at the Battle of Barnet changed the course of the struggle for power? What if the Princes had escaped from the tower or the Stanleys had not betrayed their king at ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kings & Queens of Anglo-Saxon England

    by Timothy Venning ...
    The Anglo-Saxon era is one of the most important in English history, covering the period from the end of Roman authority in the British Isles to the Norman Conquest of 1066 in which the very idea of England was born. In The Kings& Queens of Anglo-Saxon England, Venning examines the rulers of Anglo-Saxon England, beginning with the legendary leaders of the Anglo-Saxon invasion as Hengest and Horsa ... Read more

    $12.49 CAD