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  • THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE ROYAL COURT OF ENGLAND
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    THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE ROYAL COURT OF ENGLAND
    STEPHEN BASDEO
    The Georgian era, we are told, was a "polite and commercial" era. The supposedly refined aristocracy governed the nation while the bourgeoisie, at the center of the largest empire the world had ever known, expanded the nation's overseas trading interests while currying royal favors. It was an era which witnessed the flowering of art, literature, and music. But at the heart of t...

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  • PANDEMIC OBSESSION
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    PANDEMIC OBSESSION
    STEPHEN BASDEO
    "Pestilence entered… The ordinary pursuits of society were paralysed; all previously-formed plans of happiness, business, trade, occupation, and domestic arrangement, were checked as cruelly and abruptly as if every principle of the human mind were in a moment subverted… The physicians saw that human aid was vain, and that destruction inevitably awaited all who approached the i...

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  • VICTORIAN ENGLAND'S BESTSELLING AUTHOR
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    VICTORIAN ENGLAND'S BESTSELLING AUTHOR
    STEPHEN BASDEO / MYA DRIVER
    George W.M. Reynolds (1814–79) was one of the biggest-selling novelists of the Victorian era. He was the author of over 58 novels and short stories and his "penny blood" The Mysteries of London, serialised in weekly numbers between 1844 and 1848, sold over a million copies. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Reynolds's Mysteries, and its follow-up The Mysteries of the Cour...

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  • VICTORIAN ENGLAND'S BESTSELLING AUTHOR
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    VICTORIAN ENGLAND'S BESTSELLING AUTHOR
    STEPHEN BASDEO / MYA DRIVER
    George W.M. Reynolds (1814–79) was one of the biggest-selling novelists of the Victorian era. He was the author of over 58 novels and short stories and his "penny blood" The Mysteries of London, serialised in weekly numbers between 1844 and 1848, sold over a million copies. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Reynolds's Mysteries, and its follow-up The Mysteries of the Cour...

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  • ENGLISH REBELS AND REVOLUTIONARIES
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    ENGLISH REBELS AND REVOLUTIONARIES
    STEPHEN BASDEO
    Throughout history brave Englishmen and women have never been afraid to rise up against their unjust rulers and demand their rights. Barely a century has gone by without England being witness to a major uprising against the government of the day, often resulting in a fundamental change to the constitution. This book is a collection of biographies, written by experts in their fi...

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  • ENGLISH REBELS AND REVOLUTIONARIES
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    ENGLISH REBELS AND REVOLUTIONARIES
    STEPHEN BASDEO
    Throughout history brave Englishmen and women have never been afraid to rise up against their unjust rulers and demand their rights. Barely a century has gone by without England being witness to a major uprising against the government of the day, often resulting in a fundamental change to the constitution. This book is a collection of biographies, written by experts in their fi...

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  • DISCOVERING ROBIN HOOD
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    DISCOVERING ROBIN HOOD
    STEPHEN BASDEO
    The name of Joseph Ritson, born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1752, will be familiar to very few people. The name of Robin Hood is known the world over. Yet it was Ritson whose research in the late eighteenth century ensured the survival of the Robin Hood legend. He traveled all over the country looking for ancient manuscripts which told of the life and deeds of England's most famous ...

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  • HEROES & VILLAINS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
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    HEROES & VILLAINS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
    STEPHEN BASDEO
    An analysis of the builders of the British Empire, how they were represented in popular culture of the day, and how that vision has changed over time. From the sixteenth until the twentieth century, British power and influence gradually expanded to cover one quarter of the world's surface. The common saying was that "the sun never sets on the British Empire." What began as a la...

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  • ROBIN HOOD
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    ROBIN HOOD
    STEPHEN BASDEO
    "Impressively researched . . . an extraordinary combination of biography and cultural history" from the author of Heroes and Villains of the British Empire ( Midwest Book Review).   Robin Hood is a national English icon. He is portrayed as a noble robber, who, along with his band of merry men, is said to have stolen from the rich and given to the poor. His story has been re-ima...

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  • THE LIVES & EXPLOITS OF THE MOST NOTED HIGHWAYMEN, ROGUES AND MURDERERS
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    THE LIVES & EXPLOITS OF THE MOST NOTED HIGHWAYMEN, ROGUES AND MURDERERS
    STEPHEN BASDEO
    A fascinating historical survey of the world's most infamous outlaws.   For as long as human societies have existed there have always been people who have transgressed the laws of their respective societies. It seems that whenever new laws are made, certain people find ways to break them.   This book will introduce you to some of the most notorious figures, from all parts of th...

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  • THE LIFE & LEGEND OF A REBEL LEADER: WAT TYLER
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    THE LIFE & LEGEND OF A REBEL LEADER: WAT TYLER
    STEPHEN BASDEO
    In 1381, England was on the brink - the poor suffered the effects of war, the Black Death, and Poll Tax. At this time the brave Wat Tyler arose to lead the commoners, forming an army who set off to London to meet with King Richard II and present him with a list of grievances and demands for redress. Tyler was treacherously struck down by the Lord Mayor. His head hacked from his...

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  • A HISTORY OF THE END OF THE WORLD
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    A HISTORY OF THE END OF THE WORLD
    STEPHEN BASDEO
    Traces how apocalyptic fears and visions have shaped popular culture from medieval times to today. People have always imagined that human history has an end point. The way this has been imagined has varied according to time, place, and culture. In medieval England people lived in expectation of the Biblical Day of Judgment, when the world would end and people would be judged by...

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  • A COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND
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    A COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND
    STEPHEN BASDEO
    Blends humor with factual storytelling, turning kings, queens, and historic events into witty, irreverent narratives. “Nothing now succeeds unless it’s in the comic line. We have comic Latin grammars, and comic Greek grammars; indeed, I don't know but what English grammar, too, is a comedy altogether. All our tragedies are made into comedies by the way they are performed; and n...

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