Summary: Lucy Worsley brings to life key events in European royal history, covering: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and England's parting of ways with Catholic Europe; the Regency, and the reasons that George III reliquished power; the Russian Revolution, revealing that the Czar had actually been deposed by an uprising that had preceded the October Revolution of 1917.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LUC

Summary: The history of the Normans is a chronicle of the roots of modern society, religion and politics. This landmark three-part series presents the epic story of the Normans as it has never been told before.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NOR

Summary: A two-part series that tells the story of the three monarchs who reigned over Europe's greatest powers at the outbreak of the First World War: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England. The emerging divisions and rivalries between the inter-related houses of Europe brought change, tragedy and personal humiliation. Of the three great Imperial dynasties...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROY

Smith, Sally Bedell

Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMI

Langston-George, Rebecca

Summary: "An action-packed graphic novel about Virginia Hall, known as one of the most courageous spies of World War II. In the early 1940s, during World War II, Germany's Nazi regime expanded into neighboring European countries, committing horrific crimes against Jewish people and other groups. Enter: Virginia Hall. Born on a small Maryland farm, this brilliant woman's worldly ambitions led her to a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAL

Morris, Ian

Summary: "In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the eight-thousand-year history of Britain's relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.4104 MOR

Jobson, Robert

Summary: "Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is one of the world's most famous faces destined to one day lead the ancient institution of the British monarchy as King. Determined to do the right thing and to serve his country as his grandmother, The Queen, has done, William has created a public persona of a loving husband to Catherine and devoted father of three to George, Charlotte and Louis. Calm,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ad Lib Publishers 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAM, PRINCE JOB