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The black shiny door of 10 Downing Street is perhaps the best known entrance in Britain, possibly even in the world. Yet how many people know what really lurks on the other side of that famous exterior, or indeed, who built it? In this exclusive new book, Dr Anthony Seldon tells us the history behind Number 10, from its construction in the seventeenth century through to the house as it stands today. He evaluates the contribution of each of the prime ministers and their families on the appearance and the workings of the house, and looks at the way it has been used for both professional and family purposes over the years. The story follows a broadly chronological path. Chapters include: * The building since the seventeenth century * A House in the Headlines * Walpole to Balfour * Balfour to Douglas-Home * Wilson to Blair * Below Stairs * 4 Departures and an Arrivals The book is aimed a a broad public and concentrates on the the personnalities of the premiers (and their families) and both interior and exterior architectural changes.
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From gentle afternoon strolls to challenging scrambles in remote mountain sanctuaries, this revised and updated guide covers walks in the Scottish highlands. All walks are circular and accessible by road. No rock climbing is involved and the routes, each including a peak over 2000 feet, have been selected by an experienced Scottish walker. All Highland regions are included and each walk can be completed in a day. Maps and information about difficulty rating, type of terrain and conditions in adverse weather is provided.
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A riveting account of the most consequential year in English history, marked by bloody conflict with invaders on all sides. 1066 is the most famous date in history, and with good reason, since no battle in medieval history had such a devastating effect on its losers as the Battle of Hastings, which altered the entire course of English history. The French-speaking Normans were the pre-eminent warriors of the 11th century and based their entire society around conflict. They were led by William 'the Bastard' a formidable, ruthless warrior, who was convinced that his half-Norman cousin, Edward the Confessor, had promised him the throne of England. However, when Edward died in January 1066, Harold Godwinson, the richest earl in the land and the son of a pirate, took the throne . . . . this left William no choice but to forcibly claim what he believed to be his right. What ensued was one of the bloodiest periods of English history, with a body count that might make even George RR Martin balk. Pitched at newcomers to the subject, this book will explain how the disastrous battle changed England and the English forever, introducing the medieval world of chivalry, castles and horse-bound knights. It is the first part in the new A Very, Very Short History of England series, which aims to capture the major moments of English history with humor and bite.
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• Kartenverzeichnis
• Vorwort
• Einleitung
• Eine Krone weckt Begehrlichkeiten
• Die Quellen
• 1066 : ein Evergreen der Geschichtsschreibung
• Der Preis
• England im Gefüge Nordwesteuropas um das Jahr 1066
• England und Skandinavien
• England und die Normandie
• Der englische König und sein Reich
• Geistliche und weltliche Herren : Bischöfe und Äbte, Earls und Thegns
• Kriegertum und Heeresorganisation
• Harold Godwinson
• Godwin und seine Söhne : Aufstieg einer Familie
• Earl Harold
• Wilhelm der Eroberer
• Wilhelm : der Bastard
• Die normannischen Vorfahren
• Aufstieg in einer kriegerischen Welt
• Die Eroberung Maines
• Wilhelm und England
• Harolds Normandiereise
• Schiffbruch, Eid und Schwertleite : der Earl in der Schuld des Herzogs
• Harolds Heimkehr oder die Grenzen symbolischer Kommunikation
• Harold, Tostig und der englische Thron
• Der Bruderzwist
• Die Entmachtung Tostigs
• Harold besteigt den Thron
• Wilhelms Aufbruch
• Propaganda
• Bemühungen um päpstlichen Segen
• Gefolgschaften und Truppenstärken
• Das Lager am Meer
• Rüstungen
• Die riskante Überfahrt
• Harald Hardrada
• Werdegang eines Kriegers
• In Diensten des Kaisers
• Ein Doppelkönigtum
• Alleinherrscher
• Ein altes Ziel und neue Ambitionen
• Nach England!
• Fulford Gate und Stamford Bridge
• Ein Zweckbündnis : Harald und Tostig
• Der Tag der Invasoren
• Der Tag der Verteidiger und Haralds Tod
• Tostigs Ende
• Die Schlacht von Hastings
• Vor der Schlacht
• Die Entscheidung
• Der Sieger
• Die Krönung
• Der Weg nach Westminster
• Zwischen imperialen Prätentionen und herrschaftlichem Chaos
• Nach der Schlacht ist vor dem Terror (1066-87)
• England in den ersten Jahren nach der Krönung
• Wilhelms zweiter Herrschaftsbeginn und das Ende des angelsächsischen Widerstands
• Die Dänen und andere Probleme
• Domesday : die Untersuchung und das Buch
• Wilhelms Ende
• Die Folgen
• Leute und Land
• Die Kirche
• Die neuen Herren sehen : Burgen und Kathedralen
• Die Eroberung hören: die Sprache
• Anhang
• Abkürzungsverzeichnis
• Anmerkungen
• Bibliographie
• Quellen
• Literatur
• Webseiten
• Stammtafeln
• Bildnachweis
• Personenregister
• Ortsregister.

1066 in Perspective is a landmark publication offering a new interdisciplinary assessment of the impact of the Norman Conquest. Drawing upon research presented at the Tower of London on the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, the contributors, all of whom are scholars of international renown, examine 1066 from a wide range of perspectives: military, social, political, architectural, ecclesiastical, gender and art history. Published by the Royal Armouries, 1066 in Perspective is ideal for scholars, students and general readers wishing to understand the Norman Conquest in greater detail.
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• Winner takes all
• The wages of war
• An undone land
• What's in a name?
• Family versus flock
• The path of chivalry
• One Welshman's head
• Blade and trade
• On the King's business
• Floating in blood
• Illicit armour
• Cornered and constrained
• Black smoke
• An unequal contest
• Venom in the veins
• The double legacy
• Fortune's false wheel
• Ashes and dust.

The 1066 Norman Bruisers conjures up the vanished world of England in the late Middle Ages and casts light on one of the strangest quirks in the nation's history: how a bunch of European thugs became the quintessentially English gentry. In 1066 go-getting young immigrant Osbern Fitz Tezzo crossed the Channel in William the Conqueror's army. Little did he know that it would take five years to vanquish the English, years in which the Normans suffered almost as much as the people they had set out to subdue. For the English, the Norman Conquest was an unmitigated disaster, killing thousands by the sword or starvation. But for Osbern and his compatriots, it brought territory and treasure - and a generational evolution they could never have imagined. Osbern's descendants settled in Cheshire, which played a pivotal role in medieval England as the launch pad for Edward I's Welsh wars, the chief recruiting ground for royal armies and Richard II's regional powerhouse. Successive members of the Boydell family fought for monarchs and magnates, oversaw royal garrisons, travelled abroad as agents of the crown and helped to administer the laws of the land. When they weren't strutting across the stage of northwestern England, mingling with great men and participating in great events, they engaged in feuds, embarked on illicit love affairs and exerted their influence in the small corner of the country they had made their own. By 1378, when William Boydell died from wounds sustained in combat, the nation he defended was England and the enemy he opposed dwelled just forty miles from the place where Osbern had probably grown up.
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Everyone knows that William the Conqueror won the battle of Hastings in 1066, but in recent years it has become customary to assume that the victory was inevitable due to the alleged superiority of Norman technology. Frank McLynn attempts to show in this study that this view is mistaken.
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On Budget day the entire nation's attention focuses on the Chancellor of the Exchequer leaving 11 Downing Street with his famous red Budget box. This booklet takes us behind the townhouse facade of number 11 into a building of historical and architectural importance, which is also the Chancellor's family residence. Built in the late 17th century on land acquired by Sir George Downing, the house has undergone various structural alterations. The booklet outlines all these changes as well as looking at number 11's dual role as official residence and family home. It depicts the cartoons of former chancellors that line the staircase, and gives us a glimpse of the Chancellor's private apartments with their fine views over St James' Park.
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• The Englishman's castle
• The countryside
• Town
• School
• Family strife
• Tournaments and battles
• Hunting in the forest
• The church
• King John
• The King's Men
• Trial by ordeal
• A christian country
• The English and the Celts
• The wider world
• The great charter
• The myth.