Brut y Tywysogion, or Chronicle of Princes: Peniarth MS 20 Version
Brut y Tywysogion, or Chronicle of Princes: Peniarth MS 20 Version

Author: Thomas Jones

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2015-09-20

Total Pages: 591

ISBN-13: 1783163534

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One of the key original sources about the history of Wales in the Middle Ages. It lists and chronicles the history of Wales from the end of the seventh century to the year 1332. Of the original thirteenth century Latin text no copy has survived, but three independent Welsh translations are extant. In this volume Professor Thomas Jones gives an English translation of the Peniarth MS. 20 version, which is the most complete of the three. The detailed Notes show the many discrepancies in the three Welsh versions as compared with one another, and, used in conjunction with the text, they supply the combined substantial evidence of three Welsh versions and so of the lost Latin chronicles which underlies them.

Vera Deakin and the Red Cross
Vera Deakin and the Red Cross

Author: Carole Woods

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781875173105

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This is a biography of Vera Deakin, daughter of the Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, focussing on her work with the Australian Red Cross. At the outbreak of war she gave up her musical studies to initiate the Wounded and Missing Inquiry Bureau of the Red Cross in Cairo and later in London. After the War she championed the needs of limbless veterans. During the Second World War Vera undertook similar work in Melbourne for the Red Cross. She was also involved in other Melbourne charities and welfare bodies, including the Children's hospital and Yooralla.

William II (Penguin Monarchs)
William II (Penguin Monarchs)

Author: John Gillingham

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 0141978562

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William II (1087-1100), or William Rufus, will always be most famous for his death: killed by an arrow while out hunting, perhaps through accident or perhaps murder. But, as John Gillingham makes clear in this elegant book, as the son and successor to William the Conqueror it was William Rufus who had to establish permanent Norman rule. A ruthless, irascible man, he frequently argued acrimoniously with his older brother Robert over their father's inheritance - but he also handed out effective justice, leaving as his legacy one of the most extraordinary of all medieval buildings, Westminster Hall.