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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

A study of the thirty-five libraries built by Andrew Carnegie in Wales as an illustration of his world-wide commitment to the public library movement at the beginning of the twentieth century. These libraries and their social, cultural and architectural significance have never been studied before.

The Tudor dynasty's rise and fall and rise again in the years before the Battle of Bosworth

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Rawdon Brown and the Anglo-Venetian Relationship

Reign of Henry VI

Tudor monarchs have consistently attracted more popular and scholarly attention than any other royal dynasty in British history. The peculiar origins of the Tudor family and the improbable saga of their rise and fall and rise again in the centuries before the Battle of Bosworth have, however, received far less attention. Based on both published and manuscript sources from Britain and France, "The Making of the Tudor Dynasty" sets the record st...

A study of the social and political history of England and Wales in one of its most turbulant periods - that of the 15th and early 16th centuries. The book looks at the ancestors of the present Lord Dynevor, who played a central role in the Wars of the Roses in Wales.

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This masterly study of King Henry VI, unparalleled in its informative detail, examines the entire span of the king's reign, from the death of Henry V in 1422, when Henry was only nine months old, to the period of his insanity at the beginning of the Wars of the Roses, his dethronement in 1461 and his murder ten years later.

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This is the third volume of the authoritative history of the county of Gwent, geared towards an understanding of the county's past for the twenty-first century reader. Volume III is a highly illustrated collection dealing with the early modern period of Welsh history, from the creation of Monmouthshire by the Act of Union in 1536 to the beginnings of industrialization in the later eighteenth century.