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Edward the Confessor (Penguin Monarchs) by Woodman, David
Category: Popular History | Series: Penguin Monarchs Ser.
Edward the Confessor, one of the last kings of Anglo-Saxon England, is in part a figure of myths created in the later medieval period. David Woodman traces the course of his 24-year-long reign through the lens of contemporary sources, from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Vita dwardi Regis to the Baye ...Show more
Unravelling the Franklin Mystery - Inuit Testimony by David C. Woodman
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
Woodman maintains that fewer than ten bodies were found at Starvation Cove and that the last survivors left the cove in 1851, three years after the standard account assumes them to be dead. Woodman also disputes the conclusion of Owen Beattie and John Geiger's book Frozen in Time that lead-poisoning was ...Show more
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