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  • Richard of Conisbrough
    Christopher Webster
    Richard of Conisbrough was born in Conisbrough Castle only a few hundred yards from the author’s family home in Castle Avenue, and of all the great noblemen who owned Conisbrough Castle, he was the one who spent most time there. Rather than tell his story in novel form, as the author has done with other castle characters, he has chosen to tell it in the form of a play in the st...
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    8,35 €

  • Stories of Old Conisbrough
    Christopher Webster
    These stories of old Conisbrough begin with the legend of the Holy Well in pre-Roman times and go on to include England’s founding father, Hengest fighting his last battle at Maes Belli (near Mexborough), the siege of Conisbrough Castle in 1317 and Robin Hood in Barnsdale Forest. Stories from more recent times include the author’s reminiscences of Station Road School and Conisb...
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    11,72 €

  • Conisbrough Tales
    Christopher Webster
    Conisbrough Tales is a modern version of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, being a collection of stories about my home town, Conisbrough, in verse. I am sure that Geoffrey Chaucer’s dog could write better poetry than me, but I think (hope) that there are a few felicitous moments where the doggerel rises to the level of verse (and, at rare moments, perhaps even poetry). Whatever the q...
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  • Stories of Old Conisbrough
    Christopher Webster
    This book is the third in a series of story collections about the author’s home town, Conisbrough. The stories range from ancient times to the mid-twentieth century, including the experiences of a Conisbrough blacksmith at the battle of Lincoln, a tournament at Pontefract, in which the Sir John Eland, Constable of Conisbrough Castle, wins the prize, and the experiences of a Con...
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    10,72 €

  • Hrothgar
    Christopher Webster
    Hrothgar is best known from the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Beowulf, where he appears in a background role as the king whose hall is attacked by the troll, Grendel. This book aims to put Hrothgar in the foreground. His story is fleshed out with information from other sources, particularly the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus. Other famous figures from Nordic legend appear in Hrothg...
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    10,74 €

  • Crusader
    Christopher Webster
    1146 - Edessa falls to the forces of Zengi. In response, Pope Eugene III preaches the Second Crusade. His call to arms is heard all over Europe, even in the remote town of Coningsburgh where William de Warenne is inspired to take the cloth cross. However, he soon finds that religious zeal is one thing, but the harsh realities of fighting a jihad driven enemy in a torrid climate...
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    12,86 €

  • The Grail Delusion
    Christopher Webster
    It is 20 years since the Hengest and his followers were driven out of Britannia by Aurelius Ambrosius and Childric, his kinsman, wants revenge and the reconquest of what he calls 'Angleland', but he realises that it will be impossible while Merlin lives, so he asks Angle wise woman, Morwei, to create an illusion of the Holy Grail to bring about the death of Merlin and lure Arth...
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    16,95 €

  • Sword of Albion
    Christopher Webster
    Aurelius Ambrosius is the rightful king of Britannia. He has built up an army like the Roman legions of old, but he knows it is not enough. If he is to win the support of his fellow Britons he must find the Sword of Albion to prove his right to the kingship. But others are looking for that sword, among them, the 'proud tyrant', Vortigern. Aurelius goes on a perilous quest throu...
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    12,79 €

  • Sinner and Saint
    Christopher Webster
    Britannia is overrun by migrants who speak a strange language and worship heathen gods, and Bishop Brice is given the job of trying to persuade the Romans to send a legion to drive them out. But the Romans have their own problems and are reluctant to spare any of their dwindling forces. However, a bishop called Germanus, eager to suppress the Pelagian heresy, manages to put tog...
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    11,80 €

  • Rightful King
    Christopher Webster
    Aurelius’ legion is ready to make the attempt to reconquer Britannia, but powerful forces are ranged against him; the tyrant Vortigern and his Pictish mercenaries, and the vast forces of Angles, Saxons and Geats who are beginning to take over the country. To succeed he needs a symbol to rally every Briton to his banner – The Sword of Albion. But it has been well hidden, and all...
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    10,76 €

  • Warrior Woman
    Christopher Webster
    A tomboyish girl, fond of stories of shieldmaidens and waelcyries, gets involved a viking raid led by her older brother. The raid goes wrong, and her stepmother tries to teach her that her ’womanly weapons’ have more power. She goes on to seduce one king of Britannia and kill another, thus playing as large a part in the conquest of that country as her father, Hengest – but can ...
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    11,90 €

  • Nithing
    Christopher Webster
    A nithing – an outcast – is set upon by robbers and nearly killed, but he fights back, joins their band, and eventually finds a new bench-place with King Hoc of the Half-Danes. That nithing’s name is Hengest, the hero of the Battle of Sonderburh, and he rises to become king’s thegn, but things start to go badly for him when he is drawn into King Hoc’s bitter feud with the Frisi...
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    12,99 €

  • Warrior
    Christopher Webster
    Attila explodes on the world, threatening to bring down the Roman Empire, and few can stand against him. Waldere is one, who, after escaping from Attila, and fighting single-handed, dispatches eleven of his attackers. Another is Aurelius, Britannia’s rightful king, but in exile in Armorica. These heroes, and many others, join forces with Aetius, who has put together a shambolic...
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    11,96 €

  • Hengest
    Christopher Webster
    'Who are you men, armoured in mail, who come sailing upon the sliding sea-road to the land of Britannia? Long have I held the sea-watch in season as the king’s coast-warden, that no pirates might pillage the people of Vortigern. Never have I seen a noble more mighty or more haughty!' This is how the British coast-warden greets Hengest, the first named Anglo-Saxon to come to Bri...
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    9,73 €

  • Photography in the Third Reich
    Christopher Webster
    This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographers who embraced National Socialism during the Third Reich. These photographers developed and implemented physiognomic and ethnographic photography, and, through a Selbstgleichschaltung (a self-co-ordination with the regime), continue...
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    55,95 €

  • Photography in the Third Reich
    Christopher Webster
    This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographers who embraced National Socialism during the Third Reich. These photographers developed and implemented physiognomic and ethnographic photography, and, through a Selbstgleichschaltung (a self-co-ordination with the regime), continue...
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    42,93 €

  • English Dawn
    Christopher Webster
    Here is the complete English Dawn pentalogy under one cover. It tells the story of the conquest and settlement of Britain by the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century, set against the broad sweep of events in the Dark Ages: the decline of the Roman Empire, the rise of Attila the Hun, the raids by the Picts and the Scots, and the usurpation of the kingship of Britannia by the tyrant, ...
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    27,19 €

  • The Poet and the Castle
    Christopher Webster
    The poet, Thomas Wyatt, was made Constable of Conisbrough Castle in 1536 and soon after, found himself having to hold the castle against the army of the Pilgrimage of Grace. Unfortunately for Wyatt, the army consisted of over 40,000 men. Most of the main events in my story actually happened, though Conisbrough Castle was never invested by the Pilgrims. However, it was provided ...
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    12,10 €

  • The Journey Within
    Christopher Mack / Wanda S Webster
    This book explores ideas, attitudes, and behaviors that keep us trapped and in bondage to ourselves. It brings an understanding of individual patterns that keep us from being the best possible version of ourselves.  ...
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    16,36 €

  • The Journey Within
    Christopher Mack / Wanda Webster
    This book explores ideas, attitudes, and behaviors that keep us trapped and in bondage to ourselves. It brings an understanding of individual patterns that keep us from being the best possible version of ourselves. We invited you to walk down the dark halls of your mind to find out who you really are. To cause this profound transformation of your being it requires in-depth expl...
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    11,78 €

  • Vortigern Mini-Trilogy
    Christopher Webster
    Vortigern commits a terrible crime to become High King of Britannia - a crime which is he led to commit by his ambitious wife, Severa. This is a Macbethian tale set in 5th century Britannia - featuring a death-dealing druidess, a proud tyrant, a seduced monk, two pitiless Picts, two Angle invaders, a voluptuous Valkyrie, two battling dragons, a Rightful King, and a parade of th...
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    11,86 €

  • The Squire and the Lady
    Christopher Webster
    A young squire called Eubulo le Strange is sent to Conisbrough Castle to complete his military training in the service of John de Warenne. While he is there he gets caught up in an intricate web of politics, love and war, which leads to his involvement in the abduction of Lady Alice de Laci, wife of the powerful Earl Thomas of Lancaster. Unfortunately, the Earl is not slow to s...
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    16,11 €

  • Building a Great Victorian City
    Christopher Webster
    The story of Leeds and its architecture in the 120 years before the First World War was one of remarkable development: industrial growth on an heroic scale. As an adjunct to commercial, manufacturing and population change came a stunning array of new buildings, sufficiently grand to reflect the city’s achievements as well as its aspirations.In this book, a total of 36 architect...
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    79,30 €