This is an entertaining, readable, yet well-researched look at the royal courts of George I and II of England (early to mid-18th century). Worsley picks out a handful of people and follows them throughout the book: a royal mistress who was also the queen’s lady-in-waiting; an ambitious painter who g...
Rating: To Come"Thank you Rafflecopter and Candlewick Press for providing this book as a giveaway which I was surprised to have won!"So, I recieved this book, rather unexpectedly, in the mail today. I must say I was rather surprised and excited. Let me first say, that cover is amazing! I cannot w...
I liked this story of a member of Henry VIII's court and her adventures, making her Katherine Howards' cousin allowed for a lot of messy realities to be dealt with.
bookshelves: published-2013, summer-2015, nonfiction, books-about-books-and-book-shops, true-grime, next Read from August 30 to 31, 2015 Description: Murder - a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very English obsession. But wh...
How did we come to a place where crime is entertainment? It's a really good question. Short answer: as the odds of certain risks (murder) go down, fascination with it goes up. Well, Worsley wrote a whole book explaining it better that that, and a very entertaining book it is, tracing the rise of new...
This isn’t quite as good as the Judith Flanders book which Worsley does draw on. That said, however, it is either a good companion volume or a good place to start depending on which order you are reading them in. In fact, if the Flanders’ book looks too daunting, this one, shorter, is good enough to...
bookshelves: nonfiction, one-penny-wonder, published-1998 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: FutureLearn Read from June 18 to 24, 2014 Paperback: 36 pagesPublisher: English Heritage (1 Jan 1998)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1850746958ISBN-13: 978-1850746959Julie's BookshopDescription: The ruins of Hardwic...
Thank you for the review copy via netgalley. Murder - a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very British obsession. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves? In A Very British Murder, Lucy Wors...
A bit superficial but interesting look at the English home and how it came to be the way it is. A good companion to the TV series it has an extensive bibliography. It does show how the English home was influenced by other factors but it's largely about the British home. It does suffer a little fr...
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