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Amanda Harvey – Purse Henry’s Roses

Amanda Harvey Purse Henry’s Roses review, recensie en informatie boek over drie vrouwen rondom de Engelse  Koning Henry VIII, Elizabeth of York, Margaret of Scotland en Mary of France. Op 15 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Amberley Publishing het boek van de Britse historicus Amanda Harvey Purse over drie vrouwen die het leven van de Engelse  Koning Henry VIII bepaalden.

Amanda Harvey Purse Henry’s Roses review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Henry’s Roses, The Lives of Elizabeth of York, Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France het boek geschreven door de Britse historicus Amanda Harvey Purse, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Amanda Harvey Purse Henry's Roses

Henry’s Roses

The Lives of Elizabeth of York, Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France

  • Auteur: Amanda Harvey Purse (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Amberley Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 15 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: £ 22,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over drie vrouwen rondom koning Henry VIII

The author of The Boleyns examines the lives and times of three of Henry VIII’s ‘other’ women – his mother and two sisters.

Henry VIII’s relationships with women in his adult life were not plain sailing. He was the Tudor king who had six wives, two of whom he murdered. But what of the three powerful Tudor women who surrounded Henry VIII in his early life? The ones who knew him before the marriages, before the beheadings, before the tyranny?

One was Queen of England, one was Queen of Scotland and the other was Queen of France – but for Henry VIII these women were his mother and sisters. Henry’s Roses explores the lives of these three women, telling the story of how their fate was entwined with that of the most infamous monarch of them all.

Amanda Harvey Purse is an author and historical researcher for London-based museums. She has spent the last twenty-five years studying the Victorian period and is a member of The Royal Historical Society. She has studied the Tudors at the University of Roehampton and is the founder of Tudor Secrets and Myths.

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Christopher Horlock – Quirky Brighton

Christopher Horlock Quirky Brighton review, recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van de Engelse stad Brighton & Hove. Op 15 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Amberley Publishing dit boek van Christopher Horlock over de geschiedenis van de stad Brighton.

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Christopher Horlock Quirky Brighton

Quirky Brighton

  • Auteur: Christopher Horlock (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de stad Brighton
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Amberley Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 15 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 96 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 15,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over geschiedenis van de stad Brighton

A celebration of Brighton’s individual and often strange history – from eccentric characters to odd events and places.

Brighton and Hove is one of England’s most recent cities and also one of its most colourful and eccentric. It developed as a fashionable resort in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, becoming inextricably linked with the extravagant behaviour of George IV and his fantastical Pavilion. In this book author Christopher Horlock delves into lesser-known but fascinating tales from Brighton’s past. Readers will find stories of the man who walked round the world wearing a medieval iron helmet, a shark attack straight out of the film Jaws, the time Brighton built its own version of Nelson’s Column, plus when the streets were full of hundreds of marauding zombies. And it also includes that notorious naked bike ride that takes place each year.

Quirky Brighton celebrates the unusual and bizarre history of the town and its characters over the years. This fascinating insight into Brighton (and occasionally Hove) will interest all those who want to know more about its curious history.

Christopher Horlock is an author and avid collector of old photographs of Brighton. He writes regularly for ‘Sussex Life’ magazine and has previously written history books for a local publisher as well Amberley.

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Andrew Powell-Thomas – 50 Gems of the Isle of Wight

Andrew Powell-Thomas 50 Gems of the Isle of Wight review, recensie en informatie reisgids en boek over de geschiedenis van het eiland. Op 15 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Amberley Publishing het boek 50 Gems of the Isle of Wight. Het boek is geschreven door Andrew Powell-Thomas.

Andrew Powell-Thomas 50 Gems of the Isle of Wight review en recensie

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Andrew Powell-Thomas 50 Gems of the Isle of Wight

50 Gems of the Isle of Wight

The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places

  • Auteur: Andrew Powell-Thomas (Engeland)
  • Soort boek; geschiedenis, reisgids
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: Amberley Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 15 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 96 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 15,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Isle of Wight

This beautifully photographed selection of fifty of the Isle of Wight’s most precious assets shows what makes it such a popular destination.

Lying just a few miles off the Hampshire coast, the Isle of Wight is famous for its attractive landscape and historical connections. Its coastal scenery is varied, dotted with towns and fortifications built through the centuries to repel invaders, with a chalk downland spine to the island. Carisbrooke Castle held King Charles I during the English Civil War and royal connections continued with Queen Victoria, who made her home on the island at Osborne House. Other eminent Victorians followed including the poet Tennyson and the island became popular with tourists and holidaymakers. Cowes became synonymous with yacht racing and other attractions have been developed in the last century. Marconi sent the world’s very first wireless transmission from the Needles Park while the nearby Needles Battery became the testing site for Britain’s independent rocket-building programme in the 1960s.

50 Gems of the Isle of Wight explores the many places and their history that make this unique island so special, including natural features, towns and villages, buildings and places of historical interest. Alongside justly famous attractions, others will be relatively unknown but all have an interesting story to tell.

Andrew Powell-Thomas writes about military history, local heritage and children’s fiction books, regularly speaking at events, libraries, schools and literary festivals across the South-West. He lives in Somerset with his wife and two young sons and with more books and events planned.

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R.A.J. Waddingham – First Kings

R.A.J. Waddingham First Kings review and information, Forged by Vikings in England and Norway. History Press will publish this book by R.A.J. Waddingham, the British historian on January 29 in 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

R.A.J. Waddingham First Kings review

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R.A.J. Waddingham First Kings

First Kings

Forged by Vikings in England and Norway

  • Author: R.A.J. Waddingham (England)
  • Book type: English history, Viking history
  • Publisher: History Press
  • To be released: January 29, 2026
  • Length: 192 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 22.99 / £ 12.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the book about the history of Medieval Viking England

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 Athelstan’s decisive victory at Brunanburh in 937.

Meanwhile, Harald’s heirs struggled for Norway. Eric Bloodaxe briefly claimed the crown before being overthrown by his brother Hakon, fostered at Athelstan’s 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.

R.A.J. Waddingham is a retired consulting actuary and an Honorary Fellow of Royal Holloway, University of London. He was awarded a CBE in the Birthday Honours of 2012 for services to pensions. In 2019 he completed a Graduate Certificate in Historical Research, with merit, at Birkbeck, University of London.

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