
Recent acquisition:
📖 Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle by Michael Jones
Recent acquisition:
📖 Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle by Michael Jones
While listening to this one, I put together this kit and just had to show it to you all. I think it came out great!
I have mixed feelings about this one. I do think it‘s well written, but I also know I am not the audience for it. I knew nothing about these men and felt some sort of prior knowledge was imperative to fully enjoying this book. I never would have made it through the print; the audio was well done.
My new audiobook - and my second from the 2025 Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction. Lots of Shakespeare in the introduction 🥰
Recent acquisition:
📖 The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones
Rather relevant, timely and apposite introduction to this book about Richard II and Henry IV (who were both born in 1367)!
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I should have waited for the shortlist and hibernated this book. I'd be very surprised if it makes it, as I really struggled with it and could have bailed on it if it hadn't made it.
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I tried, I really did. For the right reader, this would be fantastic.
But I don‘t get on great with ‘Kings & Queens history‘. Sadly this was‘t the book to convince me otherwise. (Social history, great! Kings, Queens, dates & power machinations - no). I got through 4 hours of it. There were 16 more go. Obviously it‘s not my thing, but I don‘t see what makes it uniquely prizeworthy. So I‘m bailing.
I did learn who Wat Tyler was, so there is that!
10/100 Its hard to find a better, more informed writer, when it comes to English History, than Dan Jones. This makes a good companion book to his recent Henry V. Picking up with the disastrous reign of Henry VI, it follow through with various Henrys and Edwards, as different families fought for the crown, ending with the Tudors of Henry VIII. Very informative and entertaining. 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
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