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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 Spring of 2012.
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
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Henry VIII and Wolsey:
The Tudor Court and Royal Progresses, 1515-1530 Neil Samman Preface
by David Loades
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After he completed his thesis
Neil Samman moved to the University co 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 £21
2012
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William
de Longchamp
David Balfour, Vermont, USA
Preface Ralph Turner, Florida
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 Pbk Summer 2012 £21
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Five titles on aristocratic women in Early
Tudor England by Jennie Rowley-Williams
Jane Lady Rochford - Wife to George Boleyn, Anne's brother
ISBN 978 1 85944 296
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£6.99
Mary Countess of Northumberland - Wife to Thomas, Lord Percy, associated with Anne Boleyn
ISBN 978 1 85944 297
5
£6.99
Susan Clarencieux - Confidante to Mary Tudor
ISBN 978 85944 298 2
£6.99
Honor Lady Lisle - At the court of Henry VIII and in Calais
ISBN 978 1 85944 299
9
£6.99
Sabine Johnson - A Tudor gentlewoman
ISBN 978 1 85944 300 2
£6.99
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Published November 25th 2011
Karl Marx and
British Intellectuals in the 1930s:
Jamie Susskind
ISBN 978 1 85944
063 6 £7.99
British intellectuals wrote more about Karl Marx in the 1930s than in the previous
thirty years combined. Why?
Based on original research, this book charts an extraordinary period in British political and intellectual history.
It explains why prominent academics, journalists, and public moralists turned to Marx for insight and guidance for the first
time, ending what John Strachey called 'one of the most remarkable intellectual boycotts in the history of human thought'.
From across the political spectrum, scholars, including G.D.H. Cole and John Strachey, as well as the young E.H.Carr and Isaiah
Berlin, began to study Marx in depth, publishing definitive guides to his life and work.
This monograph traces Marx's rise
from obscurity to prominence in British intellectual life, and maps the debates that took place, amongst scholars and revolutionaries,
over the details of his life, his economic theory, his Judaism, and his relevance to the modern world - sparking an interest
that continues today.
Jamie Susskind is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford. He gained the top First in History
and Politics, a Gibbs Book Prize and amongst other awards, the Oxford University Gladstone Memorial Prize for his undergraduate
thesis, of which this is a revised and expanded version.
He
lives in London and is training to be a barrister.
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JMR Bennett: The Victorian High Church and the Era of the Great Rebellion
ISBN 978-1-85944-033-9 Paperback April
2011
52 pages £6.99 Illustrated
The illustration of J.B.Mozley on the cover of the pamphlet is
by kind permission of John Weedy, Illustrated London News Archive
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