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KB: a life in football
By Kevin Bartlett, Rhett Bartlett. 2011
Kevin Bartlett played 403 games for the Richmond Football Club and was one of its biggest stars during a golden…
era of five premierships in 13 years, who parted the club amid tremendous acrimony and did not return for more than 15 years.Brave hearts
By Kevin Walters. 1999
Elizabeth's women: the hidden story of the Virgin Queen
By Tracy Borman. 2010
Elizabeth I was born into a world of women. This title explores Elizabeth's relationships with the key women in her…
life. Beginning with her mother and the governesses and stepmothers who cared for the young princess, including her beloved Kat Astley and the inspirational Katherine Parr, it focuses on her formative years.The life and death of Anne Boleyn: 'the most happy'
By E. W Ives. 2004
Anne Boleyn is the most notorious of England's queens, but more famous for her death as an adulterer than for…
her life. Henry's second wife and mother of Elizabeth I, Anne was the first English queen to be publicly executed. Yet what do we know of the achievements and the legacy of her short reign? In The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn Eric Ives provides the most detailed and convincing portrait we have of the queen. He reveals a person of intellect with a passion for the new culture of the Renaissance, a woman who made her way in a man's world by force of education and personality. She played a powerful and independent role in the faction-ridden court of Henry VIII and the unceasing struggle for royal favour that was Tudor politics. The consequences can still be detected today. Indeed, Ives shows that it was precisely because Anne was a powerful figure in her own right that it needed a coup to bring her down. She had to be stopped - even by a lie.Anne Boleyn, twenty years old, stepped onto the shore at Dover in the winter of 1521 after several years abroad.…
She had been sent to France to assimilate French culture, and had used the time well. She was all set to make a big impression at the Tudor courtland did, capturing the heart of Henry VIII. But this woman, who was in the grave by the age of thirty-six and on the throne of England for only three years, provokes strong reactions from many. Was she an immoral woman who seduced Henry away from his rightful wife for the advancement of family and personal gain? In this well-researched, fresh look at Anne, Colin Hamer sets her in her context as a young woman who had come to true faith in Christ, and shows the impact for good she made from her position of influence, an impact we still benefit from today.Anne Boleyn: a new life of England's tragic queen
By Joanna Denny. 2007
This powerful new biography presents a portrait of Anne Boleyn different from the unsavory and unflattering accounts of her that…
have come down through history. Instead, we learn about the real Anne - a woman who was highly literate, accomplished, an intellectual, and a devout defender of her Protestant faith. Anne's tragedy began when her looks and vivacious charm attracted the notice of Englands violent and paranoid king whose love for her trapped her in the vicious politics of the Tudor court. This compelling account of Anne Boleyn plunges the reader into the intrigue, romance, and danger of King Henry VIII's Court and the turbulent times that would change England forever. It will forever change our perception of this much-maligned queen.An injured queen, Caroline of Brunswick
By Lewis Saul Benjamin. 1912
The Austrian woman: Aka Marie Antoinette, Queen Of Versailles
By Vinny Stoppia. 2016
Did you ever wonder what it might be like to be a big queen? Maybe you visualize gorgeous gowns, baskets…
bulging with jewels, and fawning admirers. That sounds dreamy but for the real scoop just ask Marie Antoinette, one of the biggest queens ever. She can tell you that the glitz is the first thing to go..The last days of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
By Rupert Furneaux. 1990
The footy lady: the trailblazing story of Susan Alberti
By Stephanie Asher. 2017
No tragedy, no challenge, has proved too hard for Susan Alberti. The woman from the working-class suburbs has battled boardrooms,…
courts, lymphoma and adult diabetes; and was one of the driving forces behind the AFL’s move into women’s football. When her first husband was killed by a truck, Susan took over their construction business, becoming a female pioneer in the building industry. When her daughter was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes she embarked on a mission to find a cure. When her beloved football club the Western Bulldogs was threatened with annihilation she worked as vice-president to bring home the 2016 premiership flag. Confronted with the exclusion of women from AFL, she battled to open the game to all and kept up the fight with money and on-ground support when others were ready to signal defeat.Empire, war, tennis and me
By Peter Charles Doherty. 2022
For those who look, and think deeply, new connections emerge. Peter Doherty, one of the world's foremost authorities on immunology,…
recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine, and an active and respected commentator on public health, reflects in this book on empire, war and tennis. Doherty identifies the origins of modern tennis within its imperial context, relating seemingly unlikely connections between the sport, its players and national militaries. He traces the fate of tennis-and its players-as a nascent force for internationalism and cultural tolerance within the context of World War II. And he personalises this account through an unsentimental but revealing depiction of his tennis-loving Queenslander uncles, at war and in captivity in the Pacific. As Doherty shows, tennis and war have threaded their way through the lives of many people since the nineteenth century, in a way intriguingly unique to this sport. This is part of Peter's story. And, as we come to realise, it is also part of the story of our world.