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[raincitygirl]

Gentle readers, recommend me a good history book or five, if you please. I am on the last chapter of George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I (which is excellent, by the way) and I need to line up a new non-fiction read. I have eclectic tastes, so feel free to recommend something out of left field.

I had to make a veterinary appointment for Young Miss Weaver yesterday, and the lady on the phone astonished me by saying, after I gave her my name and YMW's name, "How can we help your precious baby today?" Um, no. Just no. Naturally, as soon as I made the appointment, her eye infection started clearing up. Murphy's Law. I just don't want to talk to that same lady when I call back to cancel for my "precious baby".

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[executrix]

Peter Ackroyd, "Rebellion: The History of England From James I to the Glorious Revolution"; it's part of a series, he also wrote "Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors" and "Tudors: The History of England From Henry VIII to Elizabeth I," which frustrates me because I've been watching the old BBC series about Henry VII ("The Shadow of the Tower") so of course I'd want Henry VII to get a decent chunk of a book to himself.

[raincitygirl]

Thank you very much!

[legionseagle]

If you can bear his style (I love it myself) AN Wilson's The Victorians. Wilson wears his biases on his sleeve a bit, but in terms of what was going on in Europe it's pretty slick.

[raincitygirl]

Thank you!

[legionseagle]

I take it you have heard the Cousins Song?

[clanwilliam]

I was just coming here to suggest that myself!

[raincitygirl]

I have not, because that video is not available in my region. I have read the lyrics, though. It looks funny.