Found 186 results for "Christopher Hibbert"
Redcoats and rebels
by Christopher Hibbert
The first reports came from Boston, a town of some sixteen thousand inhabitants many of whom worked in its distilleries,...
The days of the French Revolution
by Christopher Hibbert
On Saturday, 2 May 1789, the King waited in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles to receive the deputies of the clergy and ...
King George III
by Christopher Hibbert
In the emphatic opinion of Sir Robert Walpole, King George II's First Minister, Frederick, Prince of Wales, was a 'poor,...
Napoleon. His Wives And Women
by Christopher Hibbert
'CONTRARY TO OUR HOPES, it has pleased God to give us a daughter,' Rose-Claire Tascher de La Pagerie wrote after the bir...
Wellington
by Christopher Hibbert
AMONG THE new boys whose baggage was set down at the gates of Eton in the autumn of 1781 were two of the five sons of th...
Nelson
by Christopher Hibbert
Soon after the death of the rector's wife, her brother, Captain Maurice Suckling, arrived at Burnham Thorpe parsonage ho...
The virgin queen
by Christopher Hibbert
London was being prepared for "a great and glorious event."
Rome
by Christopher Hibbert
In the days of Augustus, the first of the Roman emperors, a young writer from Padua, Titus Livius, brought to a close th...
