Tag Archives: England

Book Review: The Lost Tudor Princess

Posted on December 16, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Lost Tudor Princess:  The Life Of Lady Margaret Douglas It is easy enough to understand how it was that the life of Lady Margaret Douglas was forgotten, relatively speaking.  It is true that she was related to a great … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Warwick: The Kingmaker

Posted on December 16, 2019 by nathanalbright

Warwick:  The Kingmaker:  Politics, Power, and Fame, by A.J. Pollard I must admit that although I am a student of the Wars of the Roses, that I am not all that aware of the larger career of the Earl of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Path To Power

Posted on December 15, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Path To Power, by Margaret Thatcher This is quite an interesting book, I must admit, and it is a very long one.  At more than 600 pages this volume is not one that can be taken lightly, but there … Continue reading →

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What Would Margaret Thatcher Do?

Posted on December 14, 2019 by nathanalbright

From time to time I ponder the importance in our times to thinking of what someone in the past would do [1], and as it happened that in the aftermath of a massive victory by Britain’s conservatives in what was … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Last Light Of The Sun

Posted on December 9, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Last Light Of The Sun, by Guy Gavriel Kay By the time one has read five novels by the same author, one can understand pretty easily if one is going to like them or not, considering that authors tend … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Looking After A Donkey

Posted on October 29, 2019 by nathanalbright

Looking After A Donkey, by Dorothy Morris One of the odd quirks of reading multiple books about the same subject is the way that one can see the approaches that are taken to a given subject by various writers.  This … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Yesterday

Posted on October 27, 2019 by nathanalbright

Yesterday is not quite as good a film as it could have been, but it certainly does offer an amusing look at an alternate universe in which the Beatles don’t exist as we know them.  Interestingly enough, the absence of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: O Sing Unto The Lord

Posted on October 18, 2019 by nathanalbright

O Sing Unto The Lord:  A History Of English Church Music, by Andrew Grant This book was a look at the sort of history that I must admit that I am not very familiar with, the history of the music … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Censoring Queen Victoria

Posted on October 4, 2019 by nathanalbright

Censoring Queen Victoria:  How Two Gentlemen Edited A Queen And Created An Icon, by Yvonne M. Ward This book was a deeply interesting one because it raises some fascinating questions about the nature of censorship and the various motives that … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Oliver Cromwell

Posted on September 29, 2019 by nathanalbright

Oliver Cromwell (The British Library Historic Lives), by Peter Gaunt Although I was greatly disappointed by the volume in this series that dealt with Sir Francis Drake, this book was more to my taste and convinces me that not all … Continue reading →

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