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historytheinterestingbits.com
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| | | | | Bess of Hardwick Bess of Hardwick is perhaps the most famous Tudor woman, outside of the extended Tudor royal family. A friend of Queen Elizabeth I, and confidant of Katherine Grey, she was also gaoler to Mary, Queen of Scots. An accomplished needlewoman, she is probably best known having built Chatsworth House and Hardwick Hall... | |
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thefreelancehistorywriter.com
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| | | | | Frances, being the niece of King Henry VIII, found herself in the position of possibly inheriting the throne of England on several occasions. For inexplicable reasons, Henry VIII and his son King Edward VI saw fit to pass over Frances in designating their successors and instead named her children. This would have dire consequences for... | |
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zythophile.co.uk
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| | | | | In the autumn of 1775, Henry Thrale, owner of one of the biggest porter breweries in London, took his family on a trip across the English Channel to Paris. With them went Dr Samuel Johnson, the dictionary-writer and author, and one of the great literary figures of 18th-century England, who had been good friends with | |
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www.annabelfrage.com
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| | | Today, I am proud to welcome Sharon Bennett Connolly to my blog. She has published several non-fiction books set in the medieval period and I am very much looking forward to her next release which will focus on the de Warenne family-Norman in origin, this noble family was quite the power-house for well over two [...] | ||
