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  • The Attempted Assassination of King Henry III

    Medieval Oxford, #2

    Series Book 2 - Medieval Oxford
    In 1238, as King Henry III of England lay with his child bride at Woodstock in Oxfordshire, a crazed assassin entered his bedroom. Who had sent that assassin and why is the subject of this book. It involves the pirates of Lundy Island, corruption in Ireland, a gang of London murderers and a king who made dreadful decisions.In 1238, England was reeling from economic and military shocks. A huge ... Read more

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  • The Winchelsea Devil

    Eustace Busket was a pirate genius who fought for England and then for France. Born near Boulogne, his life is intimately connected to Winchelsea in Sussex. He was trained as a satanist in the schools of devilry in Toledo, Spain. He learned the ways of the sea in the Mediterranean, then came to England and became its admiral with a house in Winchelsea and a palace in London. He captured the ... Read more

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  • Vacarius and the Advent of Civil Law

    Medieval Oxford, #1

    Series Book 1 - Medieval Oxford
    Vacarius and the Advent of Civil LawThis is Volume 1 of the series of books about Medieval Oxford University. The series will examine a wide range of positive and negative connections between the University and the world in medieval times (c.1066-1500). How did people at Oxford's great seat of learning, by occupation or invitation, think - and what did they think about? What kinds of events ... Read more

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  • King Richard the Lionheart and the London Riots

    King Richard the Lionheart was famous for his crusading spirit. He took with him to the Holy Land many young warriors and one of these was William Fitz Osbert. This man Fitz Osbert came from a good family had some legal training, yet he had dreadful character defects. He was constantly after money, plaguing his own brother also called Richard. Eventually Fitz Osbert, on his return from the ... Read more

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  • The History of Fore Wood, Crowhurst, East Sussex

    Fore Wood is a jewel in the treasury of English woodlands.This wonderful example of a Western Oak Wood in the east of England has a long history as part of the giant forest of Anderida covering southern England, first with birch after the last ice age and then with mighty oaks. Its underlying geology is not chalk, but ironstone, a type of sandstone. Because the oaks and hornbeams offer homes to so ... Read more

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  • Rivers of Blood

    The brilliant warrior-poet Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, in the district or quarter known as San Martino in May or June 1265. In later life, he was banished from his home in Florence by his enemies and began to write The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. This amazing poem described all the terrors, pains and wonders of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. Dante had an imagined ... Read more

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  • Mysteries of Sussex

    Mysteries of Sussex, #2

    Series Book 2 - Mysteries of Sussex
    Volume 2 IntroductionWelcome to the second of many volumes of Sussex Mysteries. In this book you will discover a Stone Age journey from Dorset to Sussex, the perils of illegal metal detecting, the sad case of the demolition of a beautiful house, what may have happened to a missing palace, how people panicked when the Normans were landing, how it is easy to get confused by ancient names, how we ... Read more

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  • The History of Old Winchelsea

    The medieval town of Old Winchelsea was destroyed by a great storm in 1287. Remarkably, it lasted for several hundred years on a shingle bank in the middle of Rye Bay in Sussex, England. This book describes the formation of the town, its incredible history of seaborne heroism, privateering and piracy, and its final destruction along with Dunwich in Suffolk, Old Romney and Broomhill in a hurricane ... Read more

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  • Notes & Queries

    Mysteries of Sussex, #1

    Series Book 1 - Mysteries of Sussex
    Notes & Queries Volume 1 contains a collection of history essays on a wide variety of subjects. The period of English History covered is from the Roman Invasion until the present day. Fascinating snippets include: Roman mining for metals in southern England, ancient yew trees, Viking invasions, the Battle of Hastings, reclaiming landscapes from the sea, the death of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, ... Read more

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  • Notes & Queries: Volume 2

    Notes & Queries, #2

    Series Book 2 - Notes & Queries
    Are you interested in gold bars, bullion, and buried treasure? Then this book is for you. Volume 2 of Notes & Queries is a bumper edition of fascinating history stories – facts, legends and myths to please everyone. Read about Wicca and Christianity, medieval church frescoes, Jack Cade's Rebellion and the lesser known Merfold Revolt of fiery and furious men of Sussex and Kent. Find out why the ... Read more

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    Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages

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    A witty and concise look at the beginnings of English history, when the nation consolidated after clashes between the Saxons and invading Vikings.In 871, three of England's four kingdoms were overrun by Vikings, the ruthless, all-conquering Scandinavian raiders who terrorized early medieval Europe. With the Norsemen murdering one king with arrows and torturing another to death by ripping out his ... Read more

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  • Kings and Queens - A Very Peculiar History

    by Antony Mason ...
    Series Book 12 - A Very Peculiar History
    Which king's guards massacred a group of his supporters by mistake? Who had an oversized tongue and had to slobber when they ate food? Who was so large when they died that they had to be buried in a square coffin? Who survived seven assassination attempts? As you can tell from the bizarre questions above, it wasn't all thrones and sceptres for British kings and queens. Some of them were completely ... Read more

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