In Search of the Dark Ages
9 best books like In Search of the Dark Ages (Michael Wood): She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life, Cashelmara, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain, Alfred the Great, Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C.-A.D. 871, Tudor: The Family Story, The Vikings
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
| Author | Helen Castor |
| ISBN | 0571237053 |
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...
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
| Author | Alison Weir |
| ISBN | 0345434870 |
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...
| Author | Susan Howatch |
| ISBN | 0751535354 |
There were two subjects which lonely widower Edward de Salis never discussed: his dead wife and his family home in Ireland, 'matchless Cashelmara'. So when he meets Marguerite, a bright young American with whom he can talk freely about both, he is able to love again and takes her back to Ireland as his...
One night a group of monks from Durham cathedral seized Bede's remains and took them back to Durham for reburial there, making Bede one of those people who have ended up travelling further in death than they ever did while alive.
The give away fact about this book is it's title. What Bede wants...
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
| Author | Marc Morris |
| ISBN | 0091796849 |
This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king – a man born to rule England, who believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale, and...
| Author | Justin Pollard |
| ISBN | 0719566665 |
In an era darkened by the terror of Viking invasions, England's first and greatest king was a beacon of light. "This is the story of England's birth. A great story, beautifully told." (Bernard Cornwell, author of The Pale Horseman)
Alfred was England's first kin, and his rule spanned troubled...
| Author | Peter Hunter Blair |
| ISBN | 0393003612 |
By the time of Caesar's first expedition to Britain in 55 B.C., migratory movements had established close ties of kinship and common interest between the peoples who lived in Gaul and some of the inhabitants of Britain. Because the source material is so meager for much of early British history, Mr. Blair...
| Author | Leanda de Lisle |
| ISBN | 0701185880 |
# Sunday Times Bestseller; BBC History Book of the Year; a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year; a History Today Book of the Year
The Tudors are England’s most notorious royal family. But, as Leanda de Lisle’s gripping new history reveals, they are a family still more extraordinary than the...
| Author | Else Roesdahl |
| ISBN | 0140252827 |
Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and far-flung consolidation. This encyclopedic study brings together...
