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Short booklet about Austria from the 1700s to 1900s

Contains short articles about French history, starting with the earlier Kings up to the French Revolution and its outcomes.

A visual timeline representing significant events and historical figures within European History.

This book is designed to support the delivery of the Australian Curriculum Yr 8 History Medieval Europe Unit. It is a multimedia rich, interactive res...

This book provides an easy to understand overview of British History in 50 Events. Inside you will learn about… - The Foundation of London - The Gre...

Sample chapter of 6th Grade Social Studies content.

A clear-eyed dispatch from the Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky, written just after the success of the October Revolution, while World War I ...

Niccolo Machiavelli, the first great Italian historian, and one of the most eminent political writers of any age or country, was born at Florence, May...

Take a journey back in time to witness the dawning of a civilization forever defined by its ferocious warriors, highly advanced seafaring technology, ...

This e-publication is created with images from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery and presents highlights from the two-volume coronation albu...

History shapes identity. Identity defines mission. Mission determines destiny.  This series of interactive study guides have been designed as a c...

This is a history book. Some of my readers may have heard of a club known as the Seekers. It is now extinct; but in its day it was famous, and include...

This is a 22-volume collection of William H. Prescott's works. History of the Conquest of Mexico. American historian who chronicled the rise and fall ...

Slobodno zidarstvo i slobodni zidari otkriveni i demistifikovani. Mnoge knjige su napisane kako o dobrim tako i lošim stranama masonstva, kako o njeg...

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England he had a Spartan struggle for life. In summer-time he fared comparatively wel...

A exploration of the causes and consequences of the Crusades which raged throughout the Middle East for over three centuries.

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, is Bertrand Russell's critique of the Communist system he witnessed in the Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks, howeve...

From the Gaelic Period to the struggle for independence from England to unification, this engaging book chronicles the battles, politics, and major fi...

Frederick the Great, regretting the fact that he was separated from his land in East Prussia by the county of West Prussia, which was part of Poland, ...

Russia is the strange product of strange physical conditions. Nature was not in impetuous mood when she created this greater half of Europe, nor was t...

Very comprehensive history of Paris (and some other cities and countries, naturally, as they came into conflict or contact with it), from the Romans t...

In this book the aim at giving a general view of the social and intellectual life of Germany from the end of the mediaeval period to modern times.

The Story of the Middle Ages is a Historical Book. The book tells that Intended for children 11 to 14 years old, The Story of the Middle Ages relates ...

Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720) is a work of historical fiction set during the Thirty Years' War and the English Civil Wars. The full title, which bore n...

As early as the introduction of Christianity Ireland was already divided into four such aggregations of tribes--kingdoms they are commonly called--ans...

The German nation is of ancient lineage, and indeed belongs to the royal line of human descent, the Aryan; its ancestral roots running back until lost...

A Historical Romance Novel set in Celtic Ireland and Scotland in 512 AD

The description Moors has referred to several historic and modern populations of Berber, Black African and Arab descent from Northern Africa, some of ...

Medieval history begins with the dissolution of the Western Empire with the abandonment of the Latin world to German conquerors. Of the provinces affe...

The book gives an insight of the French Revolution from 1789 to the height of the Reign of Terror (1793–94) and culminates in 1795. Thus it is consi...

This volume, published in 1915, is a collection of histories by British historians of countries in the Balkans region of Europe. Nevill Forbes covers ...

The studies of the author of this work, for the last ten years, in writing the "History of Napoleon Bonaparte", and "The French Revolution of 1789", h...

It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a little more detail. Macaulay is prim...

Often called the most significant event in modern Western history, the French Revolution is a story of life, liberty and struggle. This examination of...

In anticipation of the Rome 2019 AMORC World Convention, this issue of the Rosicrucian Digest explores Mystical Italy.

This is a short history of Ferrari including some pictures and videos...

The Crusades Much has been written and much has been omitted when it comes to the Crusades; especially in modern parlance. Many talking heads in recen...

The Gilded Age, is a historic story set in the time of Ulysses S. Grant's presidency which is highly critical of his administration. Portion of the no...

This book is the product of a collaborative project between a group of volunteers - Pam Finch, Enid Hibbert, Ron Young and Roger Grace - who are assoc...

This book is aimed at all those who would like to have more details about the world of Freemasonry, both young Freemasons and non-Masons. Our intentio...

The story from the landing of Hengest, 449 To the Death of Elizabeth I, 1610. "Milton's couplet from the Sonnet to Cromwell might well describe Green'...

"The fortunes and misfortunes of a Charlemagne and Henry IV., of a Barbarossa, a Henry VI. and an Emperor Frederick II... The rise and fall of the med...

This book offers the german history that includes both, that is, its culture along with its geographical history. It also draws up various instances o...

cial sense, was the Church to which Christ referred when He said to the apostle, "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the g...

This is a historical book. It tells about the european social and politiclal issues. In the great and tragic history of Europe there is a turning poin...

A book giving a description with helpful information about European International Relations during the period 1879-1941

British journalist Walter Matthew Gallichan recounts the history of Seville, Spain, in this work published in London in 1903, with illustrations by El...

Essa ação mitológica, a disputa entre Vênus e Baco, tem o propósito de elevar os navegadores à condição de semi-deuses. Numa clara alegoria, o...

Sweeping across the known world with unchecked devastation, the Black Death claimed between 75 million and 200 million lives in four short years. In t...

The author through this book explores the mob mentality of revolutionaries-religious, scientific, and political-examines the motives of their leaders,...

It is a history book. For beauty and for romance the first place among all the cities of the United Kingdom must be given to Oxford. There is but one ...

Captivating Stories of the Ancient Olympians and Titans Did you know that Zeus loved many women, both goddesses and mortals? Did you know that he turn...

This book tells the path which Russia has trod from earliest infancy to the present hour. The career of this empire has been so wild and wonderful tha...

An identity in the structural form of language established with scientific certitude that however diverse their character and civilizaitons, Russian, ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) won instantaneous and outstanding success in prose poetry, in politics and oratory. His History, translated thro...

The book contains many (dated) anecdotes and interesting historical stories - followed by grammar exercises designed for class discussion (no answers ...

Comienzo este libro como un juego, un divertimento histórico. Me pregunto el eterno ¿Qué hubiera sido si?  La historia es la novela más apasi...

Covering 55 B.C. through the late Middle Ages, Gardiner’s massive work introduces all the major figures, wars, and other important historical events...

One of the grand poems of [Carlyle’s] century, yet its poetry consists in being everywhere scrupulously rooted in historical fact.

During the Middle Ages, the nations of Europe forged new identities that moved them away from the lost glory of the Roman Empire into their own ethnic...

Књига др Р.Арчибалда Рајса «ЧУЈТЕ СРБИ! ЧУВАЈТЕ СЕ СЕБЕ!» писана 1928.год. је у правом...

Lorsque l'éditeur des volumes suivants publié, depuis environ deux ans, le travail appelé «antiquaire», il a annoncé qu'il était, pour la derni...

The following pages are an attempt at a simple narrative and criticism of what must appear the most inexplicable occurrence in Irish history. The clim...

At the time of the sacking of Rome, this Gothic prince fell in love with Placidia, the sister of the Emperor Honorius; and after the fashion of his pe...

Ab urbe condita, is a monumental history of ancient Rome written in the Latin language by Titus Livius(Livy), an ancient Roman historian. The work cov...

Do you like Kings and Queens? How about Princes and Princesses? If you answered yes to either of these questions, this is the book for you! This book ...

Spain, with the neighbouring kingdom of portugal, constitutes the most westerly of the three southern penisulas of Europe, and in Cape Tarifa, latitud...

In the 1840s, Great Britain was the richest, most powerful nation on earth. By virtue of the Union laws of 1800 and 1801, Ireland was fully part of Gr...

As a British politician who was well known for serving twice as prime minister for the United Kingdom and as an infamous war organizer, leader Winston...

The whole of Germany is thus bounded; separated from Gaul, from Rhoetia and Pannonia, by the rivers Rhine and Danube; from Sarmatia and Dacia by mutua...

Of the great incidents of History, none has attracted more attention or proved more difficult of interpretation than the French Revolution. The ultima...

British archaeologist Stanley Lane-Poole, in collaboration with American academic Arthur Gilman, recounts the history of the Moors in Spain in this il...

The object of these few pages is not to recount once more the history of the Revolution :that can be followed in any one of a hundred text-books. Thei...

Frederick Engels (1820–1895) was twenty-two years old when he left Germany in the autumn of 1842 to settle in England. He came from a wealthy family...

This book deals with the enlightment of English history. A very detailed and researched historic book that covers the historical events and phases of ...

Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany is a book by Friedrich Engels, with contributions by Karl Marx. Originally a series of art...

The literary education of a Spartan youth was of a most restricted kind. He was taught to despise literature as unworthy of a warrior, while the study...

Like someone racing under a snowstorm, tracked by a hunter, Adolf Hitler spent a good part of his life trying to blur the footsteps of his past, but a...

Titus Veturius and Spurius Postumius, with their army, surrounded by the Samnites at the Caudine forks; enter into a treaty, give six hundred hostages...

The gifted W.B. Yeats wrote of his own people "...even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for ev...

This book tells the life and hardship of Otto Eduard Leopold Von Bismarck who was born at the manor-house of Schoenhausen, in the Mark of Brandenburg,...

Norse Mythology is not only a relic of history but a fascinating record that exhibits humanities unending stream of creativity. This eBook delves into...

This e-publication is created with images from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery and presents highlights from the two-volume coronation albu...

David Hume brings the history to life with just the details needed to remember leaders & events as well as the general condition of society during...

A look at how propaganda assisted in securing and maintaining NAZI power over the German people, through pervasive infiltration of all aspects of Germ...

This is a classic history of the French Revolution by a famous 19th century French historian. There is accounts of the many massacres of the officers ...

From its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the A...

His passionate love for his wife, Sarah Churchill, ran like a golden thread of romance through Marlborough's stormy career. On the eve of battle, and ...

A recent exploration of Chernobyl and the abandoned town of Pripyat. Taken in 25 below freezing temperatures, snow adds a surreal beauty to this haunt...

His works show an intimate knowledge of the characters, and they are written without sparing the details. The subjects are of historical importance an...

The story from the landing of Hengest, 449 To the Death of Elizabeth I, 1610. "Milton's couplet from the Sonnet to Cromwell might well describe Green'...

This book covers a wide span from the first Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George.

Dating from the eighth century, this was perhaps the first comprehensive history of Christian England ever written, and remains a primary source of in...

This book is a history of Germany between the World Wars. The focus is around how Adolf Hitler rose to power during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Ma...

Hávamál er kvæði úr eddukvæðum. Hávamál merkir mál hins háa, en hinn hái er Óðinn og er kvæðið lífsspeki hans, og inniheldur hvortve...

Thomas D'Arcy McGee : Ireland, lifting herself from the dust, drying her tears, and proudly demanding her legitimate place among the nations of the ea...

When I assented to the request of the publishers that I would edit a new edition of the History of Germany, and write an additional chapter finishing ...

Two men were largely responsible, each in his own way, for the third French Republic, Napoleon III and Bismarck. The one, endeavoring partly at his wi...

Originally “mere notes jotted down at intervals on odds and ends of paper,” this work constitutes Alexis de Tocqueville’s thoughts on the French...

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt aga...

THE first question that has to be considered in laying down the plan of a Medieval History is, Where to begin? Where shall we draw the line that separ...

An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free mark...

The true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico—and faced bloody consequences. In th...

Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia—three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work...

From acclaimed journalist Sophy Roberts, a journey through one of the harshest landscapes on earth—where music reveals the deep humanity and the ric...

The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise...

"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audience...

A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled...

In Bed with the Georgians provides a fascinating insight into life under the bed-clothes in Georgian England, where the Madams and pimps were able to ...

Rarely in history has a great city arisen in a less likely place than the islands and mud flats of the Venetian lagoon. But they provided the city's f...

EDICIÓN ESPECIAL Un relato ácido, divertido, personal y poco ortodoxo de Arturo Pérez-Reverte sobre la historia de España. Más de 160.000 ejempla...

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR A “revelatory” (Wall Street Journal) romp through the intimate details of Victorian life, by an his...

A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allo...

Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at the cross...

THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its de...

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical e...

PREFACE. The object aimed at in the following pages is to put before the reader a statement, as complete and accurate as the writer can attain to...

'At last a biography of Princess Mary, the Queen’s aunt – and a good one ... She has long deserved a full study and in Elisabeth Basford, she has ...

El nacimiento del reino de Asturias bajo la España musulmana fue una empresa titánica de resistencia y supervivencia. Una de las aventuras más fasc...

In this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918—which inspired events that forever changed the European continent—here is the story of ...

Have you ever wondered what do Freemasons do in their Masonic Rituals? The Freemasons themselves will not speak to anyone about their Masonic degrees ...

What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping acc...

This balanced history offers a concise, readable introduction to Nazi Germany. Combining compelling narrative storytelling with analysis, Joseph W. Be...

This meticulously edited collection of Norse literature and mythology – epic stories of legendary Viking voyages and battles, of migration, of feuds...

The Ancien Régime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) is a...

An “engaging, enthusiastic, sympathetic, funny” journey through French history from the New York Times– bestselling author of Absolute Monarchs ...

Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on on...

According to Wikipedia: "Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1150-1220) also known as Saxo cognomine Longus was a Danish historian, thought to have been a secular cl...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times ' Ten Be...

This is the compelling story of an Eternal City brought low, of the terror and hardship of occupation, and of the disparate army of partisan fighters,...

Much of what we know about the greatest medical disaster ever, the Black Plague of the fourteenth century, is wrong. The details of the Plague etched ...

“Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” ...

National Book Award Winner: The definitive account of Nazi Germany and “one of the most important works of history of our time” ( The New York Tim...

This royal historian’s “lively study of the four Georges who sat on the English throne for over a century is a joy” (Jane Austen’s Regency Wor...

“Riveting…An elegantly composed study, important and even timely” ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review) history of the Third Reich—how Adolf Hitl...

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part ...

A witty, erudite celebration of fifty great Italian cultural achievements that have significantly influenced Western civilization from the authors of ...

As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill’s daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous ...

On the 100th Anniversary of its sinking, King and Wilson tell the story of the Lusitania's glamorous passengers and the torpedo that ended an era and ...

The Times Best Books of the Year • The Sunday Times Best Books of the Year The New Statesman Book of the Year selection by Lucy Hughes-Hallett BBC H...

A revelatory history of Antwerp—from its rise to a world city to its fall in the Spanish Fury—by the  New York Times  Notable autho...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER With a foreword by Diana Gabaldon. Two men. One country. And a lot of whisky. As stars of Outlander , Sam and Graham eat, ...

The German Genius is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day, by acclaimed historian Peter Watson (Mak...

A New York Times Critics’ Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Biography From a gifted young writer, the story of his que...

"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds ...

The causes of the Great War are examined in this first volume of the series that is “essential reading, as fresh and compelling as ever” (Jon Meac...

The New York Times bestseller, from the author of Powers and Thrones , that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty—“a real-life...

"A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back t...

***** 'A momentous chronicle, timely and vital, which highlights that the burden of change rests, as always, upon the shoulders of those who suffered ...

The dramatic story of Scotland - by charismatic television historian, Neil Oliver. Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid a...

“Bad behavior makes for entertaining history” in this bold history of Europe, the Middle East, and the men who ruled them in the early sixteenth c...

From Pulitzer-Prize-nominated author Susan Griffin comes an unprecedented, provocative look at the dazzling world of the West’s first independent wo...

How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more? This internationally acclaimed revelatory history— "filled with fir...

“An absorbing and humane account . . . Mr. Herman is at pains to remind us that the Viking world was never just a stage for mayhem. It was, he says,...

“‘Whoever denies authority and fights against it is an anarchist,’ said Sebastien Faure. The definition is tempting in its simplicity, but simpl...

Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hôtel on Place Vendôme is the captivating history of Paris’s world-famous Hô...

This vast ebook Anthology is exploding with masterpieces of world literature, ranging from the peerless Icelandic Sagas, to the Norwegian 'Heimskringl...

The remarkable untold story of France’s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country’s most treasured commodity from German pl...

“Engrossing . . . evokes the subculture of the ‘mudlarks,’ who scour the banks for fragments of London’s past.”—The New Yorker The interna...

From the acclaimed author of Miracle Cure and The Third Horseman , the epic story of the collision between one of nature's smallest organisms and hist...

Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultur...

Barbero tocca i nodi fondamentali della scelta cristiana di liberare il Santo Sepolcro e dell'incontro/scontro fra il mondo cristiano e quello islamic...

A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses�...

In this vivid account, the author punctures some generally held assumptions: despite slaughter and famine, the province on the eve of the Plantation w...

The bestselling author of The Battle of Arnhem and D-Day vividly reconstructs the epic WWII struggle for Crete – reissued with a new introduction Na...

In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkn...

“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturb...

“Rebecca West’s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time.” — The New Yorker   Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca W...

Reviews:  “To live now and not to know this work is to be a kind of historical fool missing a crucial part of the consciousness of the age.” ...

[Includes 26 maps and 92 illustrations] The American armies that absorbed the shock of the German counteroffensives in the Ardennes and Alsace in the ...

'Technically this book is a masterly achievement: the collection, sorting, selecting and balancing of material has meant an immense amount of hard and...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its fo...

“A lovely, witty treasure trove of a book, spilling over with historical gems . . . a very human history: sometimes weird, always wonderful.” —D...

Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh. “Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his...

Geographically and linguistically diverse, by 1789 the Habsburg monarchy had laid the groundwork for a single European polity capable of transcending ...

In this groundbreaking history of Ireland, Neil Hegarty presents a fresh perspective on Ireland's past. Comprehensive and engaging, The Story of Irela...

Renowned Irish historian Diarmaid Ferriter presents a fresh look at the Irish revolutionary period from 1913-1923, drawing from newly available histor...

A fascinating cultural history of this most magical of islands A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean’s enigmatic heart Sicily...

By the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day, eyewitness account of the momentous event...

A stunning account of the economic workings of the Third Reich—and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state In this groundbreaking book...

The author of the New York Times bestseller The Plantagenets and The Templars  chronicles the next chapter in British history—the historical ba...

This engrossing collection of prison memoirs by Russian women is the first to portray the direct experiences of the wide range of women who were incar...

The acclaimed medievalist examines the rise and fall of the last kingdom of the North Britons and their influence on the Anglo-Saxons. During the Viki...

“Helen Castor has an exhilarating narrative gift. . . . Readers will love this book, finding it wholly absorbing and rewarding.�...

A "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages ( Dallas Morning News ) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of  The Last L...

The aftermath of World War I is explored in the fourth volume of Winston Churchill’s “remarkable” eyewitness account of history (Jon Meacham,&#x...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Hemingway and George Orwell: A ta...

The achievement of the Byzantines (who called themselves Romans) was to keep barbarians at bay, create a new art, preserve Western culture for 1,000 y...

“An audacious, entertaining page-turner. Dan Jones covers a thousand years of history with elegance and panache.”—Dan Carlin, host of Hardcore H...

An account of the triumphs and tragedies, personal and political, of the controversial thirteenth-century Scottish king from the medieval historian an...

An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around th...

There may not be a more fascinating a historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, yet ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Crusaders  and a top authority on the historical events that inspired Game of Thrones , a vivid, bl...

"The breath  of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmo...

The history of Spain dates back to the Early Middle Ages. In 1516, Habsburg Spain unified a number of disparate predecessor kingdoms; its modern form ...

NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • The perfect companion to the PBS Masterpiece series  Victoria  • A gripping account of Queen Victoria�...

Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Falangist uprising in July 2011, Franco's Friends tells the little-known true story of how ...

Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history of this legendary medieval order now writes a ful...

Henry III was a medieval king whose long reign continues to have a profound impact on us today. He was on the throne for 56 years and during this time...

The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion . In Fo...