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The Yale English Monarchs series is a series of biographies on English and British kings and queens, published by Yale University Press. The books are written by some of the leading experts within their respective fields, incorporating the latest historical research. Several books in the English Monarchs series have previously also been ...
Perhaps his best-known work is a magisterial biography of Henry V, published as part of the authoritative Yale English Monarchs series. This work goes far beyond the orthodox Shakespeare-dominated image of a king at war and places this complex monarch in an appropriate context of, for example, wide-ranging respect from chroniclers and ...
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Mabel Keyser. . (m. 1937) . Stanley Bertram Chrimes (23 February 1907 in Sidcup, Kent, England [1] - 21 July 1984 in Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales [1] [2]) was head of the department of history at University College, Cardiff, University of Wales, and a noted biographer of Henry VII of England. [3] He taught at the University of Glasgow from 1937 to ...
Presentation miniature from the Talbot Shrewsbury Book with dedicatory verse under an illuminated miniature of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (identified by his Talbot dog), presenting the book to Queen Margaret of Anjou seated beside King Henry VI, Royal MS 15 E VI f. 2v Author portrait of Vincent de Beauvais with borders decorated with the arms of Edward IV in Bruges, c. 1478-1480 ...
John Bennett Gillingham (born 3 August 1940) [1] is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. [2] On 19 July 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. [3] Gillingham is renowned as an expert on the Angevin Empire. [4]
In the modern era, members of the House of Windsor have had varying degrees of education. The first heir to the British throne (and later monarch) to receive a university degree was Charles III. Since the later 20th century, members of the royal family have been educated in public schools, universities and military institutes.
Smith was employed by both Aspinall and Lewis Namier as a research assistant on The History of Parliament project. He was also joint editor (with Aspinall) of English Historical Documents, 1783-1832 (1959). [1] His first book was a biography of William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, a Whig politician. His biography also shed light on the ...