The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation - Softcover

Hattersley, Roy

 
9780099554394: The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099554399 ISBN 13: 9780099554394
Verlag: Vintage, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away from the throne of England and their grandson, the Lord General of the North, fought to save the crown for Charles I.

With the help of previously unpublished material from the Chatsworth archives, The Devonshires reveals how the dynasty made and lost fortunes, fought and fornicated, built great houses, patronised the arts and pioneered the railways, made great scientific discoveries, and, in the end, came to terms with changing times.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Roy Hattersley was elected to Parliament in 1964. He served in Harold Wilson’s government and in Jim Callaghan’s Cabinet. In 1983 he became deputy leader of the Labour Party. As well as contributing to a host of national newspapers, he has written twenty-five books, including The Edwardians; Borrowed Time: the Story of Britain between the Wars; In Search of England; acclaimed biographies of John Wesley and Lloyd George, and, most recently, The Devonshires. Roy Hattersley has been Visiting Fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics and of Nuffield College, Oxford. In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099554399
ISBN 13 
9780099554394
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Anzahl der Seiten
512
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