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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 22,928 ratings — published 2012
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 14,595 ratings — published 2014
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 72,436 ratings — published 1992
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 26,121 ratings — published 2008
The Wars of the Roses (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,249 ratings — published 1995
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as british-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 229,600 ratings — published 2009
The Children of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,411 ratings — published 1996
The Norman Conquest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,118 ratings — published 2012
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,467 ratings — published 2011
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)
by (shelved 67 times as british-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,607 ratings — published 1999
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,636 ratings — published 2021
The Life of Elizabeth I (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 32,716 ratings — published 1998
The Princes in the Tower (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as british-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,673 ratings — published 1992
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,460 ratings — published 2010
The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as british-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 181,375 ratings — published 2009
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as british-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,720 ratings — published 2003
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,000 ratings — published 2008
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as british-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,547 ratings — published 2006
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,656 ratings — published 2012
Henry VIII: The King and His Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 14,479 ratings — published 2001
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
by (shelved 53 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 510,364 ratings — published 2001
A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603 (A History of Britain, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,026 ratings — published 2000
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 65,301 ratings — published 2019
Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution (The History of England, #3)
by (shelved 52 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,425 ratings — published 2014
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,664 ratings — published 2023
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as british-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,217 ratings — published 1998
Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as british-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,181 ratings — published 2011
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,784 ratings — published 2019
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,734 ratings — published 2010
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as british-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,264 ratings — published 2009
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,662 ratings — published 1963
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,816 ratings — published 2024
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 133,747 ratings — published 2020
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as british-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,745 ratings — published 2009
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,760 ratings — published 2014
Victoria The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,077 ratings — published 2016
The Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,070 ratings — published 1992
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 15,821 ratings — published 1983
Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as british-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 10,467 ratings — published 2011
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,108 ratings — published 2010
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 193,165 ratings — published 2023
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,186 ratings — published 2016
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 103,436 ratings — published 2012
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,720 ratings — published 2000
1066: The Year of the Conquest (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,547 ratings — published 1977
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as british-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,027 ratings — published 1998
The English and their History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,724 ratings — published 2014
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as british-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,873 ratings — published 2005
The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as british-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,553 ratings — published 2006
London: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as british-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,942 ratings — published 2000
“Only the poor remained, those who had no money and nowhere else to go. Another governor, more merchants and soldiers would come to take the place of those that left. But the poor always stayed. They always stayed put. And they always stayed poor.”
― The Keys of Hell and Death
― The Keys of Hell and Death
“Barbarism, thy name is Britain. In this day and age, if any societal structure is a revolting blot on the fabric of the democratic world, it's not Russia or North Korea, but the not-so-great Britain.
The queen might have been a nice person, I don't know. But when a person is declared the supreme authority (head of state) of an entire people by birth, it's not something to take pride in, rather it's something to be ashamed of.
Britain may mourn the death of the queen as a person, but no land deserves to be called civilized while mourning the death of a monarch. Let me put this into perspective. Almost every week a country celebrates independence from britain - if this doesn't tell you why the monarchy is the antithesis of everything that is civilized, nothing can.
I wonder, they can throw a homeless man in jail for lifting a bread out of hunger, yet the empire walks free, even after raping, pillaging and looting from 90% of the world's countries!
Where is the ICC (International Criminal Court) now, when one monarch after another sits on the throne, wielding the crown jewels encrusted with national treasures stolen from all over the globe!”
― Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
The queen might have been a nice person, I don't know. But when a person is declared the supreme authority (head of state) of an entire people by birth, it's not something to take pride in, rather it's something to be ashamed of.
Britain may mourn the death of the queen as a person, but no land deserves to be called civilized while mourning the death of a monarch. Let me put this into perspective. Almost every week a country celebrates independence from britain - if this doesn't tell you why the monarchy is the antithesis of everything that is civilized, nothing can.
I wonder, they can throw a homeless man in jail for lifting a bread out of hunger, yet the empire walks free, even after raping, pillaging and looting from 90% of the world's countries!
Where is the ICC (International Criminal Court) now, when one monarch after another sits on the throne, wielding the crown jewels encrusted with national treasures stolen from all over the globe!”
― Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
