Strange Reckoning
/She was the daughter, the sister, and the wife of kings in one of England's most turbulent periods, but Alison Weir's new biography is the first to make us feel we really know Elizabeth of York.
Read MoreShe was the daughter, the sister, and the wife of kings in one of England's most turbulent periods, but Alison Weir's new biography is the first to make us feel we really know Elizabeth of York.
Read MoreHe fought a world war with France, survived the Black Death, and gave England a real Parliament. Froissart and Chaucer loved him, Shakespeare (almost) wrote about him, and the Victorians disparaged him. He was Edward III, and he has a king-sized new biography from Yale University Press.
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