A very, very soft pick!
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
"The Venetian Ambassador commented that 'he [Oliver Cromwell] lacked nothing but the crown to appear a veritable king'. But he was not a king."
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
"The Venetian Ambassador commented that 'he [Oliver Cromwell] lacked nothing but the crown to appear a veritable king'. But he was not a king."
#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen
Finish The Restless Republic
Continue A History of Treason
Start The Silver Pigs
#bookreport @Cinfhen
Continued this chunkster! It's good, but very dense and slow in parts - only recommended if you're REALLY interested in the English Civil War, the Commonwealth/Protectorate and the Glorious Revolution - I haven't got to 1660 yet, but there's quite a few pages listed in the index for it!
#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen
Continue Restless Republic and History of Treason
Start Midnight's Children.
#booked2023 #spring @Cinfhen @alisiakae @BarbaraTheBibliophage
Everything except the tagged is tentative - tagged is a definite as I have the paperback on pre-order!
Just Mercy covers 'wrongly incarcerated' and The War of Don Emanuel's Nether Parts is for 'title starts with v or w'.
Thorough bio of Oliver Cromwell. She acknowledges his good points and his bad in what seemed to me a reasonable attempt at being even-handed.
Fairfax: "Human probabilities are not sufficient ground to make war upon a neighbouring nation."
In the spring and on the eve of the seventeenth century, a son was born to Robert and Elizabeth Cromwell of Huntingdon.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl