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False, fleeting, perjur’d Clarence’

George Duke of Clarence

1449-1478

 

Michael Hicks

Professor of History, University of Winchester

 

George, Duke of Clarence was the son of Richard, Duke of York and thus brother to two kings, Edward IV and Richard III.  Clarence married Isobel, the elder daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, (Warwick the kingmaker) and had two children, Edward, earl of Warwick, who was imprisoned and executed by Henry VII, and Margaret, Countess of Salisbury who was executed by Henry VIII.

 

Clarence’s reputation as ‘false, fleeting and perjur’d is described in Shakespeare’s play Richard III. Michael Hicks reveals a ‘conventional magnate, a mixture of virtues and vices but temperamentally unsuited for the role in politics otherwise assigned by his royal blood, political power and personal ambition’

 

This book was first published by Alan Sutton Publishing thirty years ago. Headstart History published a revised edition in 1992 and now The Davenant Press is proud to publish the second edition in the summer of 2010.

 

The image on the front cover is Clarence’s stallplate as a member of the Order of the Garter in St. George’s Chapel Windsor, and is reproduced by kind permission of Geoffrey Wheeler, London.

 

ISBN  978-1-85944-006-8          Paperback                      £19.99

 


                                          William de Longchamp

                                              David Balfour
                   Lecturer , College of St. Joseph, Vermont USA

                   Preface Ralph Turner,Florida State University 

Bishop, papal legate, chief justiciar, chancellor -  and when Richard I was on a crusade, William de Longchamp was Regent. Loyal to the king and hated and envied by many, he was deposed and exiled after clashes with Prince John and the magnates who sought control in the king’s absence. This study presents a re-assessment of a controversial figure and examines the life of William and the Angevin context in which he worked until his death in 1197.

ISBN 978-1-85944-007-0           May 2010           £19.99




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The Tudor Court

David Loades

Professor Emeritus, University of Wales
Honorary Research Professor, University of Sheffield
Member of the History Faculty, University of Oxford 


First published by Batsford in 1986 this book went through two revised editions with Headstart History and the Davenant Press. The new edition of this standard work on the Tudor Court includes new chapters. Nevertheless what David Loades  wrote on the court in the 2003 Preface remains true.

 

In looking at the court we see themes of perpetual conflict between the need for magnificence and the danger of runaway costs.. demands of patronage and access on the one hand and the need for control and security on the other. The Tudor monarchy was more institutionalised than most…but  remained a personal monarchy in the flamboyant renaissance mode … the court remained the epicenter of politics, fashion and fortune….the centre of government and policy making.   

 

(Illustration by kind permission of The National Archives, Kew)


ISBN    078-1-85944-013-1     Paperback 2nd edn.    £19.99      2010

  


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Neil Samman formerly University of Wales Bangor

Preface by David Loades


After he completed his thesis Neil Samman moved to the University of Reading and more recently has played a leading part in setting up a charity to support children in India and in teaching and writing about yoga.

For fifteen years the business of the court was the business of Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey. A reconstruction of his itinerary, when put alongside that of the king, reveals that he was far more ‘about’ Henry than has hitherto been realised. He tracked the court assiduously… even when they were miles apart he visited weekly…more frequently if business required it…. he worked hard for his apparently effortless superiority.  Everything the king did, and everyone to whom he talked, had political significance, and much of this work is therefore devoted to Wolsey’s possible rivals and competitors. The Privy Chamber is not central to this story, because although not denying its importance, Dr. Samman believes that it has been over-emphasised at the expense of other aspects of the court. So the focus here is partly on the Chamber, and partly on those individuals who shared the king’s pastimes, particularly jousts and masques. If the Chamber had been, as David Starkey believes, relegated to a secondary function after the advent of the Privy Chamber, it would be hard to explain why its places and its offices should have attracted the intense attention which they clearly did. Here we have an exhaustive examination of the Chamber and its personnel. No other scholar has reconstructed it in such detail, nor taken such pains to investigate the comings and goings, the identity and connections of its members.

(Illustration by kind permission of The National Archives, Kew)

ISBN 978-1-85944-015-5      Paperback          £19.99               2010


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All titles are running late but David Newcombe's book on John Hooper, Tudor Bishop and Martyr was published in September 2009. It will be followed by David Balfour's monograph on William de Longchamp.

Information on the following can be obtained by telephoning (01865) 292148.

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John Hooper

John Hooper, Tudor Bishop and Martyr c. 1495 - 1555 

David Newcome

ISBN   978-1-85944 -006-3     400 pages     Paperback £19.99

Published September 2009

 

False Fleeting Perjur’d Clarence

George, Duke of Clarence, 1449-1478

Michael Hicks

 

COMPLETELY NEW EDITION

 ISBN   978-1-85944-014-8     Paperback        £19.99

Spring 2010

 

 

Lloyd George and the Lost Peace

From Versailles to Hitler, 1919-1940

Tony Lentin

 

ISBN  978-1-85944-285 2      Paperback Series      £18.00

Available

 

 

THE TUDOR NAVY

David Loades

 

OUT OF PRINT      Last Copies      £10.00

Available

 

 

 

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