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Below the Waterline by David Carpenter; Robert Lloyd (Illustrator)
Category: Technology and Transport
This book follows the author through his experiences from the end of his apprenticeship in 1961 with The London Graving Dock Co. on the Isle of Dogs, now generally known as Canary Wharf, his time in the Merchant Navy as an engineer. Those were the days of what could be considered the last generation of ...Show more
Henry III - Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1258-1272 by David Carpenter
Category: General History | Series: The\English Monarchs Ser.
The second volume in the definitive history of Henry III's rule, covering the revolutionary events between 1258 and the king's death in 1272 After coming to the throne aged just nine, Henry III spent much of his reign peaceably. Conciliatory and deeply religious, he created a magnificent court, rebu ...Show more
Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule, 1207-1258 by David Carpenter
Category: History | Series: English Monarchs (YUP) Ser.
The first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry III's rule "Professor Carpenter is one of Britain's foremost medievalists...No one knows more about Henry, and a lifetime of scholarship is here poured out, elegantly and often humorously. This is a fine, judicious, illuminating work that sh ...Show more
Henry III Vol 1 - 1207-1258 by David Carpenter
Category: History | Series: The\English Monarchs Ser.
The first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry III's rule, from when he first assumed the crown to the moment his personal rule endedNine years of age when he came to the throne in 1216, Henry III had to rule within the limits set by the establishment of Magna Carta and the emergence of parl ...Show more
Magna Carta by David Carpenter
Category: History
With a new commentary by David Carpenter "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his eq ...Show more
Science Experiments You Can Eat by Vicki Cobb; David Cain (Illustrator); Tad Carpenter (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: A\Trophy Nonfiction Bk.
Science never tasted so good! Dig into a feast of fun--where you're the scientist and the kitchen is your laboratory! Discover what it takes to make sugar crystallize into rock candy, what moisture has to do with popping popcorn, and how proteins are essential in making cakes and muffins rise. And after ...Show more
The Struggle for Mastery by David Carpenter (Professor of Medieval History, King's College London)
Category: History
David Carpenter's remarkable new book is the first narrative history of Britain between 1066 and 1284 to be written for nearly fifty years.The tumultuous period between the Norman conquest of England and the English conquest of Wales under Edward I saw a profound reshaping of Britain. A new English iden ...Show more
The Struggle for Mastery - The Penguin History of Britain 1066-1284 by David Carpenter
Category: History | Series: The\Penguin History of Britain Ser.
The two-and-a-half centuries after 1066 were momentous ones in the history of Britain. In 1066, England was conquered for the last time. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was destroyed and the English became a subject race, dominated by a Norman-French dynasty and aristocracy. This book shows how the English ...Show more
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