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|author= Susan Higginbotham

|title= Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower

|rating=4

|genre=Biography

|summary= The fate of Margaret Pole, who as the cover says has a good claim to the title of 'the last Plantagenet', was a sorry one. As a close relation of the Yorkists and the Tudors at a time of upheaval, her life was overshadowed by the executions of several of her family – and ultimately leading to her own, largely it seems, for the 'crime' of being who she was.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445635941</amazonuk>

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|author=Peter Doggett

|summary= John Aubrey was a modest man, an antiquarian and the inventor of modern biography. His lives of the prominent figures of his generation include Shakespeare, Milton, and Sir Walter Raleigh. Funny, illuminating and full of historical details, they have been plundered by historians for centuries. Here Aubrey's biographical writings are collected, painting a series of unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day – all more alive and kicking than in a conventional history book.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870331</amazonuk>

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~~|author= Lauren Johnson~~

~~|title= So Great a Prince: England and the Accession of Henry VIII~~

~~|rating= 4.5~~

~~|genre= History~~

|summary= King Henry VII, whose victory at the battle of Bosworth in 1485 brought the curtain down on the Wars of the Roses, brought peace and stability to a divided country, but his last few years were marked by corruption and repression. When he died in 1509, there were hopes that his eighteen-year-old heir, now Henry VIII, would mark the end of medieval England and the start of a new era. The age of Protestantism and the Renaissance would indeed fulfil these aspirations. Lauren Johnson's book examines in fascinating detail the transitional year between the old and the new.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185985X</amazonuk>~~

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