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A Powerful Queen On The Chessboard Of Europe

John Jolliffe ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE by Alison Weir Cape, £20, pp. 444 W hile her achievements have always been recognised, Eleanor on the whole had an unjustly bad press until......

Not One But Many Men

John Bowen GARRICK by Ian McIntyre Penguin, £25, pp. 678 R left his home in Lichfield to study law at Lincoln's Inn and gave it up, became a wine merchant and gave it up; he......