Gimson's kings & queens : brief lives of the monarchs since 1066
Gimson, Andrew2015
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'Gimson's Kings and Queens' whirls us through the lives of our monarchs, to tell a tale of bastardy, courage, conquest, brutality, vanity, vulgarity, corruption, anarchy, absenteeism, piety, nobility, divorce, execution, civil war, madness, magnificence, profligacy, frugality, philately, abdication, dutifulness, family breakdown and family recovery. Written in Andrew Gimson's inimitable style, this is both primer and refresher for all those people who can never quite remember which were the good and bad Edwards or Henrys, or the reasons so-and-so succeeded to the throne rather than his second cousin.
Main title:
Gimson's kings & queens : brief lives of the monarchs since 1066 / illustrated by Martin Rowson.
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Imprint:
London : Square Peg, 2015.
Collation:
xiii, 241 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Illustration and text on lining papers.
ISBN:
9780224101196 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941.0099920
Language:
English
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BRN:
1001615
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