Portraits, tapestries, sculpture, armour, manuscripts and objects from this artistically cosmopolitan court: Flemish weavers, German painters, Florentine sculptors… all in the service of dynastic promotion and legitimisation. Fabulous.
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
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RC is a distinguished British diplomat (and author). In this incisive historical analysis, he considers where problems, personalities and ideas meet.
The Ambassadors
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An ironic moment, perhaps, for a major new biography of the man who first uttered, 'The lamps are going out all over Europe' (August, 1914)... Grey remains the longest-ever serving Foreign S... read more
Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey
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Slaveowners were paid compensation to the equivalent of £340 billion from the public purse, which entrenched their power.