Anna Keay Unisex Tudor England A History Lucy Wooding,Restless Republic 2 Books Set

Name: Anna Keay Unisex Tudor England A History Lucy Wooding,Restless Republic 2 Books Set
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Anna Keay

Description. The Restless Republic: Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022. The Restless Republic is the story of the extraordinary decade that followed. It takes as its guides the people who lived through those years. Among them is Anna Trapnel, the daughter of a Deptford shipwright whose visions transfixed the nation. John Bradshaw, the Cheshire lawyer who found himself trying the King. Marchamont Nedham, the irrepressible newspaper man and puppet master of propaganda. Gerrard Winstanley, who strove for a Utopia of common ownership where no one went hungry. William Petty, the precocious scientist whose mapping of Ireland prefaced the dispossession of tens of thousands. And the indomitable Countess of Derby who defended to the last the final Royalist stronghold on the Isle of Man.. Tudor England: A History. When Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner of Wales, it seemed inconceivable that this outsider could ever be king of England. Yet he and his d...