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|author= Nathen Amin
|title=The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown
|rating= 4
|genre= History
|summary= The family name of Beaufort played a major part in British history during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about them until the appearance of this book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Rory Stewart
|summary=Allotments came about originally from the enclosure of land, primarily for sheep pasture. Fearing that the enclosures would leave peasants unable to feed themselves, Elizabeth I issued an act requiring all new cottages to have four acres of ground, something which has been honoured more by history than by Elizabeth's contemporaries. It was the first in a long line of legislation with that aim in mind - which largely failed to achieve their aims.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Peter Rex
|title= Harold: The King Who Fell at Hastings
|rating= 4.5
|genre=History
|summary= Harold is in the unenviable position for being remembered as the monarch who was defeated and killed in the Norman conquest, and almost nothing else. He does not even merit a passing mention in the renowned 1930s spoof English history, '1066 and all That', which no doubt has him in their category of 'Unmemorable Kings'. This book is thus inevitably a history rather than a biography of someone about whom undisputed facts are rather lacking.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144565721X</amazonuk>
}}