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When the adventurer Walter Ralegh first encountered Elizabeth I he supposedly placed his cloak over a puddle and allowed the queen to walk across it. Thus began one of the most intriguing relationships between a monarch and her favourite.

The Favourite explores the labyrinthine complexity of human emotion, ambition and ritual within the restricted confines of the Tudor court. Was the favourite a Machiavellian schemer who fooled the queen in her affections? Was Elizabeth willing to manipulate her courtier for her own ends? The Queen?s affection for Ralegh would protect him but he would soon become the ?most hated man in England?.

In The Favourite, Mathew Lyons reveals a new portrait of an immortal relationship and a fascinating exploration of the many layers of love between Gloriana and Ralegh - courtier, chancer and privateer.

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For the first time, the Sunday Times bestseller Austerity Britain is available in one complete paperback volume.

Coursing through Austerity Britain is an astonishing variety of voices - vivid, unselfconscious, and unaware of what the future holds. A Chingford housewife endures the tribulations of rationing; a retired schoolteacher observes during a royal visit how well-fed the Queen looks; a pernickety civil servant in Bristol is oblivious to anyone's troubles but his own. An array of working-class witnesses describe how life in post-war Britain is, with little regard for liberal niceties or the feelings of their 'betters'.

Many of these voices will stay with the reader in future volumes, jostling alongside well-known figures like John Arlott (here making his first radio broadcast, still in police uniform), Glenda Jackson (taking the 11+) and Doris Lessing, newly arrived from Africa, struck by the levelling poverty of postwar Britain. David Kynaston weaves a sophisticated narrative of how the victorious 1945 Labour government shaped the political, economic and social landscape for the next three decades. Deeply researched, often amusing and always intensely entertaining and readable, the first volume of David Kynaston's ambitious history offers an entirely fresh perspective on Britain during those six momentous years.

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Von Oltermann, Philip

Eine etwas andere Geschichte der britisch-deutschen Beziehungen der letzten 200 Jahre. Philip Oltermann lebte bis 1996 in Hamburg, bis seine Eltern beschlossen, nach England auszuwandern. Aus dieser Perspektive nahm er sich 10 historische Ereignisse vor, um das Verhältnis zwischen den Briten und den Deutschen zu beleuchten. Dieses Buch zeigt die unterschwelligen Einflüsse und komischen Missverständnisse, die in dieser mitunter etwas schwierigen Beziehung immer wieder entstehen.

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