This album of Queen Victoria's family explores the lives, personalities, tastes and contributions of the Queen.

Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing
Written By: Charlotte Zeepvat

There is a continuing fascination with the Romanov dynasty that ruled Russia for over 300 years. Charlotte Zeepvat seeks to widen the picture by looking at the lives of members of the family during the last century of imperial rule, a time of contrasts and a period in which the Tsars reached the peak of their wealth, prestige and power, yet also faced the growth of forces which would destroy them. ...

Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing
Written By: Charlotte Zeepvat

This second edition takes account the many changes in the field since "Ancestral Trails" was first published in 1997. A comprehensive and up to date guide to tracing British ancestry, the book guides the researcher through the substantial British archives with a detailed view of the records and published sources available. Research in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Mark D. Herber

Harold Godwinsson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, rose from relative obscurity to ascend the throne, and his death ushered in the Norman Conquest. This full length biography is a valuable resource for those interested in the Saxons or Normans.

Manufacturer: Wrens Park
Written By: Ian W. Walker

The thirteen-volume Complete Peerage (1910-59) remains the standard reference work for the peerage of Britain and Ireland, containing entries for every hereditary peer from 1265 onwards. The long-awaited new volume corrects all known errors and adds a wealth of new information resulting from decades of research. In addition it brings the hereditary peerage up to date, containing entries for all ...

Manufacturer: A. Sutton
Written By: Peter Hammond, George E. Cokayne

The most in-depth and authoritative history of the Clan Campbell available. Commissioned by the Clan Campbell Education Association in Louisiana, it is a full history in three volumes with a foreward by the Duke of Argyll. Fully illustrated throughout with maps and genealogies and twenty pages of plates. It includes six appendices with a full genealogical analysis of the Clan and includes an ...

Manufacturer: Edinburgh University Press
Written By: Alastair Campbell of Airds

'"Passing the Time in Ballymenone" is an extraordinarily rich and rewarding book. It is about night and day, talk and work, man and nature, history and folklore, text and context, truth and order, art and culture, life and death, the ponderable and imponderable, but above all it is about the effort of one man to find for himself and us the life's breath of the people of Ballymenone...It is ...

Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Written By: Henry H. Glassie

An introduction to the key debates of Russian history. How did a small principality develop into a vast empire? Why did Russia develop political and social institutions so different from those of the West, which led the country on such a different path in the 20th century? The book relates the facts behind the reputations of tsars such as Ivan the Terrible, whose reign of terror was unparalleled ...

Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
Written By: David Warnes

Somerled founded Clan Donald over 800 years ago. This largest of clans consolidated its power in the north of Scotland and its western isles until the fall of the Lordship in 1493. It still retained power through several divisions until the clan system was smashed in 1745. After the Battle of Culloden in 1746, many members of Clan Donald were driven from their homelands and scattered all ...

Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company
Written By: Donald J. Macdonald

Avalon is a site of great power, revered since ancient times as an entrance to, and exit from, the Otherworld. Book provides a coherent context in which to understand Avalon's many mysteries, including the * Isle * Tor * Glastonbury Zodiac, * Abbey * Tor Labyrinth * St. Michael ley line The author invokes the magical, spiritual power of the English landscape with a wealth of detailed ...

Manufacturer: Green Magic
Written By: Nicholas R. Mann