The demon’s brood : the Plantagenet dynasty that forged the English nation

The Demon’s Brood: the Plantagenet dynasty that forged the English nation.

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Shakespeare wrote plays about six of them, further entrenching them in the National Myth. Based on major contemporary sources and recent research, acclaimed historian Desmond Seward provides the first readable overview of the whole extraordinary dynasty, in one volume.

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The Demon’s Brood: the Plantagenet dynasty that forged the English nation.

This is a big ballsy history of the sort that is seldom written in these nuanced days, and Seward reminds us of a style that has been all-but lost in this thundering account of the Plantagenet family from when Count Fulk burnt his young wife in her wedding dress, through years to the man he calls the suicide king , Richard III Best of all, and typical of this vivid opinionated history, is the postscript at the end of every reign when the author who has not minced his words in the previous chapter gives a magisterial summing up of the progress so far.

The general reader will find this book invaluable for filling in gaps of knowledge and putting a vivid story to a previously unknown monarch It is a dramatic and page-turning history taking in the loss of the Norman inheritance, and then the shifting ownership of the English lands in France during the Hundred Years War. Seward s description of the battle of Agincourt is particularly vivid this is the medieval world populated with heroes and seductresses, gods and murderers and few know it better than Desmond Seward - The Times.

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited. I often joke that anything later than the Norman conquest and I've lost interest because it's just too recent!

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However, in the last year or so it has come to my attention that my knowledge of the last thousand years of British history prior to the 20th century is somewhat lacking. It basically goes: Norman conquest Wars of the Roses Queen Victoria.

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So, I've decided to rectify this rather large gap in my knowledge, and started with a book about the Plantagenets, who were the kings that bridged the gap between the first Norman rulers and the Tudor dynasty that everyone knows so much about, a period from the middle of the 12th century to and the death of Richard III at Bosworth.

This book was actually a really interesting read. It was ideal for me as a bit of a newcomer to this period of history, as it wasn't massively in-depth. Obviously this is a title that gets passed down through generations, but also gets passed around as noble families fall out of favour and are usurped, so again I found myself having to refer to the family trees to remind myself who 'York' or 'Exeter' was during this particular king's reign and how they all related to each other!

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Those grumbles aside, however, I really enjoyed reading this book, and now feel that I have a decent basic grounding in this period of history. Enough that I now find myself wanting to delve a bit deeper into particular events and particular kings. Watch this space for further adventures in the Middle Ages! Fills a wild card square I wouldn't describe this as in idiots guide to evolution, because I had to admit some of the more technical bits about genetics lost me, but basically it's a series of articles on the current state of research in evolution.

I was particularly interested in the chapters on the origins of life, as that has long been a topic that fascinates me, and the chapters about Charles Darwin and how he developed his ideas were actually fairly new information for me. As I said, I did get a little bit lost with some of the more in-depth genetics chapters, but not so lost that I couldn't get a basic grasp of what it was all about, I think I just missed some of the detail.

As the name implies, this book is linked to New Scientist magazine, so the level it's pitched at is very much the same as the magazine itself - the interested layman with a basic knowledge of science for the record, I haven't formally studied any science subject beyond GCSE level. If you're at all interested in the current state of evolutionary research, and already have a basic knowledge of the subject, then I'd recommend this book as a very interesting and informative read.

If you're a complete beginner, it's possibly not the best place to start. Thread started by Jo. I'm laughing so much at your description of the gaps in your historical knowledge.

Keli and I had a similar conversation in London. Oliver Cromwell, something, something, lots of Georges and Williams, Victoria.

We sort of made a half hearted agreement to learn more about the Georges and Williams! I agree about the names and titles

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