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C.V. Wedgwood

Born

in Stocksfield, Northumberland, The United Kingdom

July 20, 1910

Died

March 09, 1997

Genre

History

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Dame (Cicely) Veronica Wedgwood OM DBE was an English historian who published under the name C. V. Wedgwood. Specializing in the history of 17th-century England and Continental Europe, her biographies and narrative histories "provided a clear, entertaining middle ground between popular and scholarly works." ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 7,161 ratings · 752 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Thirty Years War by C.V. Wedgwood, Anthony Grafton (Introduction) 4.18 avg rating — 2,915 ratings — published 1938 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Coffin for King Charles: The Trial and Execution of Charles I 3.99 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 1964 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King's Peace, 1637-1641 4.15 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1955 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King's War, 1641-1647 4.21 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 1958 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	William the Silent: William of Nassau, Prince of Orange 1533-1584 4.30 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1944 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Richelieu and the French Monarchy 3.96 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1949 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World of Rubens: 1577-1640 4.16 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1967 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Montrose 4.14 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1995 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spoils of Time: A History of the World from Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1984 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trial of Charles I really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Great Rebellion (3 books)
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“An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything”
― Veronica Wedgwood

tags: education, knowledge

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“It was written in London under the advancing shadow of the Second World War, and it may be that the apprehensionsof those years can be felt vibrating from time to time in its pages. The historian,concerned as he is with the most vital of all studies, is often more subject than herealizes to the electric currents of contemporary mood.”
― C.V. Wedgwood, The Thirty Years War

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“The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.”
― Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, The Thirty Years War

tags: culture, history, nationalism, prejudice

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