Elizabethan & Jacobean architecture
- not the friendly unassuming architecture of the vernacular but the uniquely strange & exciting
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This is an SHP Official Text which means it has been created by the Schools History Project for use with the SHP specifications. This is part of SHPs comprehensive & authoritative range of books for the Schools History Project GCSE specifications. See http://www.schoolshistoryproject.org.uk/ Publishing/index.htm to find out more about the Schools History Project & their award winning publications. Elizabethan England is comprehensive & authoritative depth study for use with all School History Project GCSE specifications. It thoroughly covers the content requirements of OCR & AQAs specifications using an enquiry based approach. It is written by experts who understand both how to design good teaching material but also understand the exact assessment requirements of each

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England under Elizabeth I: A time of war & plague politics & rebellion personal heroism & religious fanaticism. When if you were born poor you stayed poor & the thumbscrews & the rack could be the grim prelude to the executioners block. But it was also an age that encouraged literary genius global exploration & timeless beauty. It was when the lowly privateer Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe with no reliable navigational instruments & only a drunken mutinous crew for company. When the Queens favourite the wealthy & handsome Robert Dudley was widely suspected of having killed his wife. & when only the machinations of ruthless intriguers like William Cecil & Francis Walsingham prevented Elizabeths kingdom from descending into anarchy & political chaos. The Elizabethans" is a panoramic exhilarating depiction of an intensely colourful period by master-historian A N Wilson. This is what life under Elizabeth I was really like." ...

Can the adorable Ella Bella Ballerina help Cinderella get to the Royal Ball? Alone on the stage after class Ella Bella opens Madame Rosa's magical musical box & is whisked off into the world of the Cinderella ballet. But will Ella Bella be able to help Cinderella meet her perfect Prince Charming? ...

Can Ella Bella help the swan princess to be reunited with her prince? Will she help to break the wicked sorcerers spell? Will true love conquer all? Young ballerinas will find the answer to all these questions & delight in the sheer charm of Ella Bellas world. James Mayhew has also included a last page full of ballet facts to help even the keenest budding ballerina learn about the story behind Swan Lake. ...

The Petal Fairies have a very important job
- together with their magic petals they help to make sure that flowers grow & bloom
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Ella's Kitchen is the fastest growing brand in the UK baby food sector & this new title Ella's Kitchen: The Cookbook: The Red One is the first in a series of books aimed at creating nutritious convenient food that kids (and their parents) will love. 100 yummy recipes to inspire big & little cooks ranging from the easiest of snacks & light meals that can be rustled up in minutes to delicious & satisfying dinners. Interesting twists & clever shortcuts such as salmon fillets baked in parcels & sweet & sour prawns make life as easy as possible for busy parents. For weekends & holidays when there is a bit more time available there are leisurely breakfast recipes such as Blueberry Pancakes & more involved cooking projects such as a Pasta Weekend. With an emphasis on involving kids as much as possible the book

Includes:: easy prep tasks throughout as well as fun activities from growing your own window-box plants to getting creative with vegetable prints. Colour-in pages & stickers also mean that kids will love it as much as their parents do.

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Life was not easy for widowed George Vannin & his young daughter but somehow George had raised the child alone & Ellan adored her father. She was ten when the shaft at Foxdale Mine collapsed & her father never came up. From then on she lived with Aunt Maud a dour woman with a quick temper. Her husband had died in a mining accident too & she never forgave the family at the Big House for their part in the tragedy. When Ellan was offered a chance to better herself at the Big House Aunt Maud savagely forbade it. Ellans chance was yet to come but it was to be many years before happiness was finally within her grasp. ...

Ellie is a sweet-natured brunette generous of heart with a sparkling smile & an accent which reveals her East End background. Bonny is beautiful & spoilt with cascades of blonde hair the brightest pair of blue eyes & a mouth like Cupids bow. The two girls meet in London at the end of the war when seduced by two American airmen they pool their wits & resources & set off to make a living on the stage. Set against the hardship & austerity of post-war Britain & the glamour & ruthlessness of life in variety theatre their story is one of sacrifice & burning ambition. But most of all of a powerful friendship that lasts against all odds. ...

Dear Everybody I'm an incredibly famous film star! I get to sign autographs & be in magazines & I have my very own chaperone Jeffrey to look after me. Hooray! But I am also a very serious person. I love nature. I have a bag decorated with butterflies. Did you know that butterflies turn into caterpillars? Amazingly amazing! & that's why I'm helping to save a nature reserve. I've never saved anything before but it can't be very hard.. .can it? Love Ellie May xxx ...