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Gareth’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Gareth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Gareth Russell’s Followers (351)
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Gareth Russell
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August 2016
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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
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2017
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16 editions
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The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
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2019
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12 editions
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The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
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2023
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7 editions
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Do Let's Have Another Drink!: The Dry Wit and Fizzy Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
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2022
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11 editions
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The Six Loves of James I
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A History of the English Monarchy: from Boadicea to Elizabeth I
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2015
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4 editions
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Popular (Popular, #1)
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2011
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6 editions
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The Emperors: How Europe's Greatest Rulers Were Destroyed by World War I
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2014
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7 editions
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The Immaculate Deception: The Popular Series
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2012
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4 editions
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An Illustrated Introduction to the Tudors
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2014
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5 editions
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| Thank you to the publishers for sending me an advanced copy of this book, which is an insightful and brilliant account of a dark chapter in history. In Veerapen's hands, the spectre of the witch and the witch-hunter are brought to life, as are the co ...more | |
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“> *where Anne Boleyn had been executed.*
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> …*The stones beneath the altar were prised up. Jane Boleyn and Catherine Howard were buried quickly next to the mouldering remains of Lady Salisbury, Thomas More, Jane’s husband, and another queen of England…. The few attendees walked out of the little church into the courtyard, where the scaffold still stood. The body of Catherine Howard was left to a vast silence. In all probability, she had not yet reached her twenty-first birthday.”
― Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
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> …*The stones beneath the altar were prised up. Jane Boleyn and Catherine Howard were buried quickly next to the mouldering remains of Lady Salisbury, Thomas More, Jane’s husband, and another queen of England…. The few attendees walked out of the little church into the courtyard, where the scaffold still stood. The body of Catherine Howard was left to a vast silence. In all probability, she had not yet reached her twenty-first birthday.”
― Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
“as ever, people tolerate in their friends what they deplore in their enemies,”
― Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII
― Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII
“He missed Thomas Cromwell, charging his no doubt terrified councillors that “by false accusations, they made him put to death the most faithful servant he ever had.”
― Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
― Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
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| Reading the 20th ...: Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen (April 2020) | 129 | 26 | May 26, 2020 11:31AM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: 2018 New to You Authors | 594 | 128 | Aug 08, 2020 04:33PM | |
| The History Book ...: RAGAN - PERSONAL READING LIST - "To Be Read" List (2023) | 51 | 300 | Jun 29, 2021 05:12PM |
