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“keith dockray”

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  • Politics, Society and Homosexuality in Post-War Britain

    The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 and Its Significance

    by Keith Dockray, Alan Sutton ...
    The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 was ground-breaking in the UK and Politics, Society and Homosexuality in Post-War Britain: The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 and its Significance marks the fiftieth anniversary of its successful path to the statute book.The act was not without controversy and was fiercely fought over by the likes of Mary Whitehouse and right-wing reactionary Tories who in typical ... Read more

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  • Richard III

    From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records

    by Keith Dockray, P. W. Hammond ...
    No English king has suffered wider fluctuations of reputation than Richard III, perhaps the most controversial ruler England has ever had. Vilified by critics as a ruthless master of intrigue and a callous murderer, he has been no less extravagantly praised by defenders of his reputation against Tudor and Shakespearian charges of tyranny. Richard III: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and ... Read more

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  • Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses

    From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records

    by Keith Dockray ...
    Henry VI (1422-61), a man 'more given to God and devout prayer than handling worldly and temporal things', was the third, and least successful, Lancastrian king of England; his wife Margaret of Anjou, 'a great and strong laboured woman', became a formidable political force in her own right; and the Wars of the Roses, so dramatically portrayed by William Shakespeare as bloody dynastic struggles ... Read more

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  • Henry VIII: The Evolution of a Reputation

    by Keith Dockray, Alan Sutton ...
    No English king is more famous-or infamous! than Henry VIII, popularly celebrated as the formidable and arrogant figure portrayed by Hans Holbein the Younger, the early Tudor stud who clocked up no fewer than six wives and the proto-nationalist/imperialist ruler who sent the pope packing and inaugurated the English Reformation. As befits such a colossus, masses has been written about the king, not ... Read more

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  • William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians

    by Keith Dockray ...
    For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify Elizabeth I's occupation of the English throne; a blessing because, without Shakespeare's 8 -play Plantagenet history cycle, hardly anyone beyond specialists in the history of the period would know of their ... Read more

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  • Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I

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  • Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution

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  • Danger to Elizabeth

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  • The Survival of the Princes in the Tower

    Murder, Mystery and Myth

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    The murder of the Princes in the Tower is the most famous cold case in British history. Traditionally considered victims of their ruthless uncle, there are other suspects too often and too easily discounted. There may be no definitive answer, but by delving into the context of their disappearance and the characters of the suspects, Matthew Lewis examines the motives and opportunities afresh, as ... Read more

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  • Cleopatra

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    Cleopatra is probably one of the most well-known women in history, right alongside Joan of Arc and many other prominent ladies who have changed the face of history as we know it.The lesser known details of her reign, as well as her methods of seduction, philosophies and involvement in world politics, however, are seldom discussed at length. Jacob Abbott's Cleopatra is probably one of the few books ... Read more

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