2016
Dent’s Modern Tribes
Introduction The Great Outdoors Twitchers Ramblers Surfers Anglers Runners Modern Life Home Bakers Baristas Gym-Goers The IT Crowd Skateboarders Gamers Getting Somewhere Cabbies Cabin Crew Pilots Trainspotters Train Crew Cyclists Truckers Bikers Hells Angels That’s Entertainment Actors TV and Film Crew Sound Engineers Carnies and Circus Folk Classical Musicians Roadies Morris Dancers Comedians DJs The …
The Reluctant Diplomat
Foreword Richard Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough Family Trees Roger Chaloner 1493-1550 Education 1527-1538 Travel and Danger 1540-1541 Literature and Employment 1542-1547 In Praise of Folly 1547-1550 Scotland 1551-1552 Accounts 1551-1554 Queen Mary and The Mirror for Magistrates 1553-1558 Elizabeth – The Marriage Question 1558-1559 Flanders 1559-1560 Alvaro de Quadra 1559-1564 Journey to Madrid 1561-1562 Mary …
The Age of Genius
Map Author’s Note Introduction Seeing the Universe The Epoch in Human History A Time of Wars The Origins of the Wars The Loss of the Palatinate The Mercenary Captains The Edict of Restitution, 1629 The Swedish Apogeee From Wallenstein to Breisach Towards Westphalia In the Ruins of Europe The Maritime Conflicts The Cumulation of Ideas …
This Orient Isle
Introduction: The Ambassador Arrives Conquering Tunis The Sultan, the Tsar and the Shah The Battle for Barbary An Apt Man in Constantinople Unholy Alliances Sultana Isabel London Turns Turk Mahomet’s Dove Escape from the Seraglio Sherley Fever More than a Moor Epilogue