Author : Daniel Diehl
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0752473786
A history of the building itself, told through the stories of the people, royal and common, good and bad, heroes and villains, who lived and died there. This book presents a microcosm of human experience, from love and death to greed and betrayal, all played out against romantic period settings ranging from medieval knights to the days of World War Two.
Author : Elvira Woodruff
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780756947910
The 11-year-old son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London befriends a Jacobite rebel being held prisoner there.
Author : Nigel Jones
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1250018145
A dazzling history of the Tower of London, one of the world's busiest tourist attractions, and the people who populated it. Castle, royal palace, prison, torture chamber, execution site, zoo, mint, home to the crown jewels, armory, record office, observatory, and the most visited tourist attraction in the UK: The Tower of London has been all these things and more. No building in Britain has been more intimately involved in the island's story than this mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital, a place which has stood at the epicenter of dramatic, bloody and frequently cruel events for almost a thousand years. Now historian Nigel Jones sets this dramatic story firmly in the context of national—and international—events. In a gripping account drawn from primary sources and lavishly illustrated with sixteen pages of stunning photographs, he captures the Tower in its many changing moods and its many diverse functions. Here, for the first time, is a thematic portrayal of the Tower of london not just as an ancient structure, but as a living symbol of the nation of Great Britain.
Author : Brian A. Harrison
Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Inscriptions
ISBN : 9780948092565
Author : Sarah Morris
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445635364
The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's infamous wife.
Author : Matthew Lewis
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0750985283
The murder of the Princes in the Tower is the most famous cold case in British history. Traditionally considered victims of their ruthless uncle, there are other suspects too often and too easily discounted. There may be no definitive answer, but by delving into the context of their disappearance and the characters of the suspects, Matthew Lewis examines the motives and opportunities afresh, as well as asking a crucial but often overlooked question: what if there was no murder? What if Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York, survived their uncle's reign and even that of their brother-in-law Henry VII? In this new and updated edition, compelling evidence is presented to suggest the Princes survived, which is considered alongside the possibility of their deaths to provide a rounded and complete assessment of the most fascinating mystery in history.
Author : Peter Kent
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761304029
Surveys various prisons throughout time, including the Tower of London, the Bastille, and Alcatraz. Includes brief biographies and illustrations of nine famous prisoners and challenges the reader to find them in the larger illustrations.
Author : Avi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481437704
“Swiftly moving and utterly engrossing.” —Shelf Awareness Parents’ Choice Recommended From Newbery Award–winning author Avi comes the gripping and amazingly true tale of a boy plucked from the gutter to become the King of England. England, 1486. King Henry VII has recently snatched the English Crown and now sits on the throne, while young Prince Edward, who has a truer claim, has apparently disappeared. Meanwhile, a penniless kitchen boy named Lambert Simnel is slaving away at a tavern in Oxford—until a mysterious friar, Brother Simonds, buys Lambert from the tavern keeper and whisks him away in the dead of night. But this is nothing compared to the secret that the friar reveals: You, Lambert, are actually Prince Edward, the true King of England! With the aid of the deceitful Earl of Lincoln, Brother Simonds sets out to teach the boy how to become the rightful English king. Lambert has everything to gain and nothing to lose, or so he thinks. Yet in this dangerous battle for the throne, Lambert is not prepared for what’s to come—or for what it really means to play at being a king.
Author : Doyne Courtenay Bell
Publisher : London : J. Murray
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN :
Author : Kristen Deiter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2024-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040113478
This is the first book on Richard III and the Tower of London, shedding new light on the King’s reputation, the Castle’s lore, and early modern literature’s role in building associations between them. It is also one of the first books to integrate conceptual blending theory and spatial literary studies, empowering scholars and students to analyze literature and locations in new ways. This book fills gaps in the existing knowledge about both Richard III and the Tower of London. Neither literary nor historical scholarship has treated the process through which Richard III and the Tower became associated in the cultural and historical imagination and how such representations have shaped the King’s reputation and the Castle’s lore. This study analyzes this process while offering new understandings of Richard III as a literary character in prose, drama, and poetry and extending knowledge about the Tower as an iconic literary and cultural symbol.
