Terry Breverton Boeken

Offering a fresh perspective on Welsh history, this book presents an engaging and approachable narrative that highlights key events, figures, and cultural developments. It aims to make the rich and diverse heritage of Wales understandable to a wide audience, blending historical analysis with storytelling to illuminate the country's past. Readers will discover the significance of Wales' contributions to broader historical contexts while gaining insights into its unique identity and evolution over time.

From herbal remedies to home cooking, essential oils to ointments, this diverse compendium contains over 400 years of wisdom about the properties of plants the world over.

From anti-slavery heroes and privateers to evil murderers, from Viking longships to Somali raiders today, the 1000-year roll call of the pirates.

A compendium of facts, myths, and surprising secrets of the most infamous British royal family

The life of the king of England who defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth and founded the glittering Tudor royal dynasty.

A nautical compendium covers a wide range of topics from ships, maritime slang, and famous naval battles to villains of the high seas and remarkable sea creatures.

The Wars of the Roses were a bitter and bloody dispute between the rival Plantagenet Houses of York and Lancaster. Only one man, Jasper Tudor, the Lancastrian half-brother to Henry VI, fought from the first battle at St Albans in 1455 to the last at Stoke Field in 1487 and lived to forge a new dynasty – the Tudors. Fighting the Yorkists, rallying the Lancastrians and spending years in exile with his nephew, the future first Tudor monarch, Henry VII, Jasper was the mainspring for continued Lancastrian defiance. He was twenty-four years old in his first battle and fifty-three when he won at Bosworth Field in 1485. Now he could style himself ‘the high and mighty prince, Jasper, brother and uncle of kings, duke of Bedford and earl of Pembroke’. Without the heroic Jasper Tudor there could have been no Tudor dynasty. This is the first biography of the real ‘kingmaker’ of British history.

An extraordinary guide to the greatest feats of ingenuity and innovation.• Who flew before the Wright brothers?• How was plastic surgery invented?• Did Leonardo da Vinci design the first robot?• When was the first e-mail sent?• Where was beer first brewed?• Who invented zero?From the fish hook to fibre optics, the pyramids to the postage stamp, and from gunpowder to GPS, this eclectic compendium will inform, inspire and fascinate anyone curious to know more about the moments of genius that have shaped our lives today.