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|author= John Ashdown-Hill

|title= The Wars of the Roses

|rating= 4.5

|genre= History

|summary= During my schooldays, I always found the Wars of the Roses the most fascinating period of English history. In those days we were taught that the battles began in 1455 and ended in 1485. Ashdown-Hill is one of several modern historians whose study of the subject extends these boundaries, and in this volume he starts with the reign of Richard II, ending late in the Elizabethan era.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660350</amazonuk>

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|author= Charles Drazin

|summary=The Tudor period in England marked a transition in so many ways from the medieval period to a new era, and so it is only right that somebody should at last have examined what effect that should have had on our capital city. After the instability of the Wars of the Roses, a period of consolidation set in and London was at last established as the seat of royalty and government, as well as the centre of cultural life and commercial activity.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445645866</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Simon Wills~~

~~|title= The Wreck of the SS London~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=History~~

|summary= The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 was the ocean disaster against which all subsequent shipwrecks have come to be compared. Yet some forty years earlier, the people of mid-Victorian Britain and overseas were horrified by another loss at sea which at the time had a similar impact. In January 1866 SS London, a large new luxury liner en route to Australia, went down shortly after leaving England, with around 250 people dead, maybe more (the exact figure will never be known), and only three survivors.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144565654X</amazonuk>~~

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