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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London

10 best books like Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London (Liza Picard): Busman's Honeymoon, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, The Life of Elizabeth I, Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life, How to Be a Victorian, The Greek Myths, Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King, The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England, Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past

Busman's Honeymoon
AuthorDorothy L. Sayers
ISBN0061043516
Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride, mystery writer Harriet Vane, start their honeymoon with murder. The former owner of Talboys estate is dead in the cellar with a misspelled "notise" to the milkman, not a spot of blood on his smashed skull, and £600 in his pocket..
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
AuthorHelen Castor
ISBN0571237053
When Edward VI - Henry VIII’s longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the title King of England. For the first time, all the contenders for the crown were female.

In 1553, England was about to experience the ‘monstrous regiment’ - the unnatural rule...
The Life of Elizabeth I
AuthorAlison Weir
ISBN0345425502
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely private person throughout her reign, keeping her own counsel and sharing secrets with no one--not even her closest, most trusted advisers. Now, in this brilliantly...
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
AuthorAlison Weir
ISBN0345434870
In this beautifully written biography, Alison Weir paints a vibrant portrait of a truly exceptional woman and provides new insights into her intimate world.

Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was...
How to Be a Victorian
AuthorRuth Goodman
ISBN0670921351
Step into the skin of your ancestors . . .

We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert, but what was it like for a commoner? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Dress in whalebone and feed opium to the baby?...
The Greek Myths
AuthorRobert Graves
ISBN0140171991
Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the ancient myths. For a full appreciation of literature or visual art, knowledge of the Greek myths is crucial. In this much-loved collection, poet and scholar Robert Graves retells the immortal stories...
Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King
AuthorCharles Beauclerk
ISBN0802142745
Written by a direct descendant of the union between Nell Gwyn and King Charles II, Nell Gwyn tells the story of one of England’s great folk heroines, a woman who rose from an impoverished, abusive childhood to become King Charles II’s most cherished mistress, and the star of one of the great love stories...
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
AuthorIan Mortimer
ISBN1847921140
The past is a foreign country - this is your guide.

We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat?...
After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England
AuthorLeanda de Lisle
ISBN0345450469
# Runner Up, Saltire First Book of the Year Award
A brilliant history of the succession of James I of England, and the shifting power and lethal politics that brought him to the throne.In the dawn of the 17th-century when Mary Queen of Scots was dead and Elizabeth I grown old, the eyes of the English...
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past
AuthorJohn Higgs
ISBN1474603475
A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.
Long ago a path was created by the passage of feet tramping through endless forests. Gradually that path became a track, and the track became a road. It connected the...
The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire
AuthorSusan Ronald
ISBN0060820667
Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power, both feared and admired by her enemies. Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, she employed a network of daring merchants, brazen adventurers, astronomer philosophers, and her stalwart Privy...
Life in a Medieval Castle
AuthorJoseph Gies
Focusing on Chepstow, an English castle that survived the turbulent Middle Ages with a relative lack of violence, the book offers an exquisite portrait of what day-to-day life was actually like during the era, and of the key role the castle played. The Gieses take us through the full cycle of a medieval...
Murder at Half Moon Gate
AuthorAndrea Penrose
A wealthy lord who happens to be a brilliant scientist . . . an enigmatic young widow who secretly pens satirical cartoons . . . a violent killing disguised as a robbery . . . Nothing is as it seems in Regency London, especially when the Earl of Wrexford and Charlotte Sloane join forces to solve a shocking...
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