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|author= Nathen Amin

|title=The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown

|rating= 4

|genre= History

|summary= The family name of Beaufort played a major part in British history during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about them until the appearance of this book.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author= Rory Stewart

|summary=Allotments came about originally from the enclosure of land, primarily for sheep pasture. Fearing that the enclosures would leave peasants unable to feed themselves, Elizabeth I issued an act requiring all new cottages to have four acres of ground, something which has been honoured more by history than by Elizabeth's contemporaries. It was the first in a long line of legislation with that aim in mind - which largely failed to achieve their aims.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk>

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~~|author= Peter Rex~~

~~|title= Harold: The King Who Fell at Hastings~~

~~|rating= 4.5~~

~~|genre=History~~

|summary= Harold is in the unenviable position for being remembered as the monarch who was defeated and killed in the Norman conquest, and almost nothing else. He does not even merit a passing mention in the renowned 1930s spoof English history, '1066 and all That', which no doubt has him in their category of 'Unmemorable Kings'. This book is thus inevitably a history rather than a biography of someone about whom undisputed facts are rather lacking.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144565721X</amazonuk>~~

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