George Goodwin

A revelatory account of the power of the written word in the destruction of British colonial rule in America The American Revolution was not only fought on bloody battlefields, it was waged with the ink of pen and print. George Goodwin shows how the leaders of the American Revolution brilliantly weaponized information and propaganda through correspondence and newspapers, shaping public perception, mobilizing support, and swaying the colonies toward open rebellion. Once the war began, George Washington’s tireless ability to deploy the pen and press as a weapon of war helped to unite and sustain very different colonies and colonists during the eight long years before victory. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary accounts, letters, and publications, Goodwin demonstrates how liberty and authority were contested through ideas, images, and rhetoric at the time of America’s birth—and how, 250 years on, the Revolution can be seen as America’s first great media war.

A stocking-filler-sized compilation of Christmas lore, revealing the intriguing origins of the traditional festivities. Forty short pieces on individual traditions are each accompanied by charming vintage illustrations from the British Library's collection of Christmas books, cards and ephemera. Origins of the Feast at Christmas The decision to celebrate Christ's birthday on 25 December; the Yuletide festival of Anglo-Saxon England; Saturnalia; evergreens taken inside in midwinter; the original Captain Christmas `Hark the Herald Angels Sing' - Christmas in and out of Church Holly symbolizing Christ's crown of thorns; the role of Midnight Mass; European celebrations of Epiphany and the importance of the Three Kings Christmas down the Ages Mistletoe and kissing; the Puritan ban on Christmas; the Twelve Days of Christmas; Dickens's recipe for Twelfth Night cake The Transatlantic `Victorian' Christmas Nineteenth-century romanticisation of Christmas and invented traditions; goose clubs; advent calendars; Christmas cards and gift-giving Modern Traditions Individual, sometimes outlandish traditions from around the world

The ketogenic diet found its admirers for three reasons: - it's easy to use; - it helps to reduce your weight without affecting for muscle mass; - it strengthens your health. The food is varied and tasty inside the ketogenic diet. The slow cooker is an irreplaceable thing at the kitchen. Everyone starts to follow what they eat, everyone needs a healthy and high-quality food. The slow cooker makes the food useful. The book "Keto Slow Cooker Cookbook" is a collection of recipes for the slow cooker (better known as a "Crock-Pot"), selected according to the rules of the ketogenic diet. The book includes four chapters. The first chapter contains recipes with poultry, the second chapter contains meat recipes, the third chapter is more suitable for lovers of fish and seafood, the fourth chapter contains exclusively vegetarian recipes. The volume of the book is 56 recipes. The recipes are different in terms of complexity and number of ingredients. Each recipe is unique and tested by the author on himself. A lot of recipes did not pass this test. Therefore, may to say that these recipes are one of the best recipes for the slow cooker. You like to eat delicious, but you watch your weight, don t you? Let s start to cook at the slow cooker. Do you follow the quality of your food? Use the low mode of the slow cooker. You do not like spending a lot of time at the stove? You can put a lot of foods into the slow cooker and make something tasty. Do not you know what to cook? We will help you Everything in this book. You should try to start cooking in the slow cooker. Take care of your health and eat deliciously.

A great man on an even greater stage: Benjamin Franklin arrives in London at the very moment it becomes the epicentre of the greatest power in the world.

The relationship of England and Scotland became defined by events on 9 September 1513 in a battle of great size, bloodshed and finality - the Battle of Flodden.

The battle of Towton in 1461 was unique in its ferocity and brutality, as the armies of two kings of England engaged with murderous weaponry and in appalling conditions to conclude the first War of the Roses. Variously described as the largest, longest, and bloodiest battle on English soil, Towton was fought with little chance of escape and none of surrender. Yet, as if too ghastly to contemplate, the battle itself and the turbulent reign of Henry VI were neglected for centuries. Combining medieval sources and modern scholarship, George Goodwin colorfully re-creates the atmosphere of fifteenth-century England. From the death of the great Henry V and his baby son's inheritance first of England and then of France, Goodwin chronicles the vicious infighting at home in response to the vicissitudes of the Hundred Years War abroad. He vividly describes the pivotal year of 1450 and a decade of breakdown for both king and kingdom, as increasingly embittered factions struggle for a supremacy that could be secured only after the carnage of Towton.Fatal Colours includes a cast of strong and compelling characters: a warrior queen, a ruthless king-making earl, even a papal legate who excommunicates an entire army. And at its center is the first full explanation for the crippling incapacity of the enduringly childlike Henry VI--founder of Eton and King's College, Cambridge. With a substantive and sparkling introduction by David Starkey, Fatal Colours brings to life a vibrant and violent age.

A gripping account of the Wars of the Roses battle of Towton - the most brutal day in English history.