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Tag Archives: Scotland
Book Review: The Lady Most Willing…
The Lady Most Willing…, by Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, and Connie Brockway This book is the second book in a series that involves an ensemble cast of writers engaged in writing about a complex romantic situation that involves multiple couples. … Continue reading
Book Review: The Struggle For Mastery
The Struggle For Mastery: The Penguin History Of Britain 1066-1284, by David Carpenter Between 1066 and 1284 there was a great deal of conflict within the British Isles over mastery. Through England had long been more powerful than the other … Continue reading
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Tagged authority, England, Ireland, Middle Ages, Scotland, Wales
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Book Review: The Puritans: A Transatlantic History
The Puritans: A Transatlantic History, by David D. Hall This book is really an essential book for someone to read if someone wants to understand the Puritans on their own terms and grasp the complexity of the experience of the … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Book Reviews, Christianity, History
Tagged England, Puritanism, Scotland
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Book Review: The Lost Tudor Princess
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
Posted in Book Reviews, History, Love & Marriage
Tagged England, gender issues, Scotland
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Book Review: Castles
Castles: Their History And Evolution In Medieval Britain, by Marc Morris For a long time I have been deeply interested in castles and had the dream of having one of my own. This book does a good job at pointing … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, History, Military History
Tagged engineering, England, Marc Morris, Scotland
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Book Review: The Marches
The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England And Scotland, by Rory Stewart As a human being I have often found myself dwelling in middle lands, border regions, contested territories on the periphery fought over by multiple parties, with complex views … Continue reading
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Tagged England, family, identity, imperialism, Scotland, travel
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Book Review: A Great And Terrible King
A Great And Terrible King: Edward I And The Forging Of Britain, by Marc Morris This is a very good book, but it is also one whose importance and whose focuses have to be understood in a larger context. Edward … Continue reading
Book Review: Conan Doyle For The Defense
Conan Doyle For The Defense: The True Story Of A Sensational British Murder, A Quest For Justice, And The World’s Most Famous Detective Novel, by Margalit Fox In general, I have to say that this is a very good book. … Continue reading
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Tagged death, identity, Judaism, mystery, prison, Scotland
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Book Review: Kings & Queens Of England & Scotland
Kings & Queens Of England & Scotland, by Plantagenet Somerset Fry This short volume by an improbably named author is not the sort of book that will give a reader a deep insight into the history of the royal family, … Continue reading
Book Review: Ivory Vikings
Ivory Vikings: The Mystery Of The Most Famous Chessmen In The World And The Woman Who Made Them, by Nancy Marie Brown The odds are high that many people among my readers will not know the Lewis chessmen by name. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Christianity, History, International Relations
Tagged art, art history, chess, culture, Greenland, Iceland, Middle Ages, Norway, politics, Scotland
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