The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV

Helen Castor

Allen Lane.

<p>The War of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. Yet almost nothing is known about the thoughts and feelings of the people who lived through this bloody conflict. Almost nothing, but not quite. As they made their way in a disintegrating world, a Norfolk family called the Pastons were writing letters - about politics, about business, about shopping, about love and about each other. Using these letters, the oldest surviving family correspondence in English, Helen Castor traces the extraordinary history of the Paston family across three generations. Blood &amp; Roses tells the dramatic, moving and intensely human story of how one family survived one of the most tempestuous periods in English history.</p>

Blood and Roses: The Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Faber&Faber

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

Community & Culture

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-07-01 Pages: 496 Language: English Publisher: Faber & Faber Now a BBC4 series showing in March 2012.When Edward VI - Henry VIIIs longed-for son - died in 1553. extraordinarily. there was no one left to claim the title King of England For the first time. all the contenders for the crown were female.In 1553. England was about to experience the monstrous regiment -. the unnatural rule -. of a woman But female rule in England also had a past. Four hundred years before Edwards death. Matilda. daughter of Henry I and granddaughter of William the Conquerer. came tantalisingly close to securing her hold on the power of the crown. And between the 12th and the 15th centuries three more exceptional women - Eleanor of Aquitaine. Isabella of France. and Margaret of Anjou - discovered. as queens consort and dowager. how much was possible if the presumptions of ma...

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