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  • 1970: A Year in Rock: The Year Rock Became Mainstream by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    1970: A Year in Rock: The Year Rock Became Mainstream

    1970 was a year of change in pop and rock music, with divisions between both becoming ever more blurred. More ambitiously-constructed epics, heavy rock numbers and contemporary folk songs competed with mainstream and easy listening fare on Top of the Pops and in the...
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  • A mere passing shadow: The tragedy of Frederick III, German Emperor by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    A mere passing shadow: The tragedy of Frederick III, German Emperor

    A two-act drama based around the illness and death of Frederick III, son-in-law of Queen Victoria, who reigned as German Emperor for only three months in 1888. The other characters include his wife Victoria, German Empress; their son William, who succeeded him as Emperor;...
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  • Alexander III of Russia by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Alexander III of Russia

    Alexander III, Tsar of Russia, reigned from 1881 to 1894. Having succeeded to the throne on the assassination of his father, Alexander II, he rejected the latter's plans for constitutional reform. A firm autocrat, he made no concessions to liberalism and his reign was...
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  • All Around My Hat: The Steeleye Span Story by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    All Around My Hat: The Steeleye Span Story

    Steeleye Span have been at the forefront of British folk-rock for almost half a century. Formed in 1969 by Ashley Hutchings after his departure from Fairport Convention, the genre's founding fathers, and named after a character in an old Lincolnshire song, they began as...
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  • Between two Emperors: The Willy-Nicky telegrams and letters, 1894-1914 by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Between two Emperors: The Willy-Nicky telegrams and letters, 1894-1914

    Between 1894 and 1914 the German Emperor William II and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia exchanged a series of telegrams and letters, published in 1918 and 1920. Apart from family news and gossip, they also threw an interesting light on the political relations between...
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  • Charlotte and Feodora: A troubled mother-daughter relationship in imperial Germany by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Charlotte and Feodora: A troubled mother-daughter relationship in imperial Germany

    In 1900, almost two years after Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen married Prince Henry XXX of Reuss, her mother Charlotte, eldest sister of the German Emperor William, told a friend that her daughter was beyond her comprehension, and vowed to exclude her from her home...
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  • Collected Works: Once a Grand Duke; Always a Grand Duke; Twilight of Royalty by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Collected Works: Once a Grand Duke; Always a Grand Duke; Twilight of Royalty

    Alexander, Grand Duke of Russia (1866-1933), grandson of Tsar Nicholas I, and brother-in-law of Tsar Nicholas II, served as a naval officer during the last years of the Romanov dynasty. Married to Grand Duchess Xenia, he was the father-in-law of Prince Felix Youssoupov, one...
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  • Daughter of Prussia: Louise, Grand Duchess of Baden and her family by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Daughter of Prussia: Louise, Grand Duchess of Baden and her family

    Princess Louise of Prussia, later Grand Duchess of Baden (1838-1923) was the daughter of William I, King of Prussia and German Emperor. Her long life spanned the year of revolutions in 1848 and the immediate aftermath of the First World War. She took little...
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  • Dictionary of Royal Biographers by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Dictionary of Royal Biographers

    The DICTIONARY OF ROYAL BIOGRAPHERS brings together short entries on more than 500 authors who have written and published in English on the lives of British and European Kings, Queens, Emperors, Empresses and their families from the Norman conquest and the eleventh century to...
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  • Eagles: Every Album, Every Song by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Eagles: Every Album, Every Song

    Eagles began as a backing group for Linda Ronstadt, then realised they had the potential to strike out on their own. All being accomplished vocalists, musicians and songwriters, they jointly set themselves the goal of 'number one singles and albums, great music, and a...
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  • Free and Bad Company in the 1970s: Decades by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Free and Bad Company in the 1970s: Decades

    Free were formed in 1968 towards the end of the British blues boom. After two critically acclaimed albums, the release of 'All Right Now' and the album Fire and Water in 1970 brought them major success. Musical and personal differences took their toll and...
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  • Jeff Lynne: Electric Light Orchestra: Before and After by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Jeff Lynne: Electric Light Orchestra: Before and After

    2016 Nominee - Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research A passionate music fan from childhood and much-respected teenage guitarist in his native Birmingham, Jeff Lynne rose through the ranks of various semiprofessional local groups to become front...
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  • Kate Bush Song by Song by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Kate Bush Song by Song

    Kate Bush began her career in 1978 at the age of 19 with the single 'Wuthering Heights', inspired by a film adaptation of the Emily Bront novel, the first No. 1 UK single to be written and sung by a female artist, and the...
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  • Led Zeppelin: Song by Song by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Led Zeppelin: Song by Song

    Throughout most of the twelve years between their formation and disbanding after the death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin was regarded as arguably the most influential group in popular music since The Beatles. While seen as pioneers of British heavy rock, their sound...
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  • Letters of the Empress Frederick by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Letters of the Empress Frederick

    LETTERS OF THE EMPRESS FREDERICK, a selection of correspondence from the Empress to her mother, Queen Victoria, was published in 1928. The former Princess Royal of England, who married Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1858, had never been popular in court circles in...
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  • Life of Alexander II: Emperor of all the Russias by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Life of Alexander II: Emperor of all the Russias

    Emperor Alexander II ascended the throne of Russia in 1855. His reign was noted for the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, earning him the title of 'Tsar Liberator', and for a victorious war against Turkey in 1877-78. His last years were overshadowed by...
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  • Manfred Mann's Earth Band in the 1970s: Decades by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Manfred Mann's Earth Band in the 1970s: Decades

    Having moved from jazz, Blues and R'n'B to out-and-out pop in his various 1960s bands, keyboard player Manfred Mann went back to the drawing board in 1971 with a new quartet, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, and the intention of focusing on progressive rock. With...
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  • Mott the Hoople and Ian Hunter in the 1970s: Decades by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Mott the Hoople and Ian Hunter in the 1970s: Decades

    When Hereford group Silence teamed up with songwriter Ian Hunter in 1969 to form a group that aimed to be a cross between Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Procol Harum, they rapidly became one of Britain's most popular live acts, but a major...
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  • Olga and David by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Olga and David

    In 1914 Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, the nineteen-year-old eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra of Russia, sails to England to meet her cousin Edward, Prince of Wales, generally known as David, as a possible husband. She arrives just as war...
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  • Prince Henry of Prussia: 1862-1929 by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Prince Henry of Prussia: 1862-1929

    Prince Henry of Prussia was the second son of Crown Prince Frederick William, later Emperor Frederick III, and the Crown Princess, later Empress Frederick. As a youth he joined the imperial German navy, and travelled widely throughout Asia and the Americas. An easygoing character,...
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  • Princess Helena: Queen Victoria's third daughter by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Princess Helena: Queen Victoria's third daughter

    Princess Helena (1846-1923) was the third daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. A steady, dependable young woman, known as 'Lenchen' within the family, she was particularly 'useful' to her demanding and recently widowed mother, who could not bear to lose her to a...
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  • Queen Victoria's Children by Kiste, John Van Der
    John Van Der Kiste

    Queen Victoria's Children

    Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort, had nine children who, despite their very different characters remained a close-knit family. Inevitably, as they married into European royal families their loyalties were divided and their lives dominated by political controversy. This is not only the...
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  • Roy Wood: The Move, Wizzard and beyond by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Roy Wood: The Move, Wizzard and beyond

    From his early days as guitarist with Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders, Roy Wood was always a major figure on the Birmingham music scene. In 1965 he helped to form The Move, who weathered several line-up changes over the next few years while enjoying...
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  • Sarah Forbes Bonetta: Queen Victoria's African Princess by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    Sarah Forbes Bonetta: Queen Victoria's African Princess

    Sarah Bonetta Forbes, 'Queen Victoria's African Princess', was rescued from Africa as a girl of seven after the slaughter of her family. Offered by King Gezo of Dahomey as a gift to the Queen, she was taken to England. Spending part of her childhood...
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  • The Dukes of Clarence by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    The Dukes of Clarence

    Since the title was created in the fourteenth century, five English princes have borne the title Duke of Clarence.The first, Lionel, son of Edward III, and the second, Thomas, son of Henry IV, both fought in the Hundred Years' War, the latter perishing in...
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  • The Dukes of Cumberland by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    The Dukes of Cumberland

    The title of Duke of Cumberland was originally created as one of several conferred on Prince Rupert ('of the Rhine'), cousin of King Charles I, in 1644. Like the next three princes to be thus known, he left no legitimate heir to succeed him....
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  • The first German Empress: Augusta, Consort of Emperor William I by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    The first German Empress: Augusta, Consort of Emperor William I

    Born a princess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1811, Augusta was married at the age of seventeen to Prince William of Prussia, the future King and first German Emperor. A woman of progressive opinions and artistic tastes, married to a man with whom she had almost...
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  • The heroine of Gaeta: Queen Maria Sophia of the Two Sicilies by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    The heroine of Gaeta: Queen Maria Sophia of the Two Sicilies

    In 1859 the seventeen-year-old Maria Sophia, Duchess in Bavaria, married Francis, Duke of Calabria, heir to the throne of the Two Sicilies. Just over two years later, she and her husband saw their kingdom disappear, overrun by the forces of Garibaldi and absorbed into...
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  • The Intimate Life of the Last Tsarina by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    The Intimate Life of the Last Tsarina

    Princess Radziwill's biography of the last Tsarina was first published in 1929. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alexandra was left motherless at the age of six by the death of Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse. She married Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, shortly after...
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  • The last German Empress: Empress Augusta Victoria, Consort of Emperor William II by Van Der Kiste, John
    John Van Der Kiste

    The last German Empress: Empress Augusta Victoria, Consort of Emperor William II

    Born a princess of Schleswig-Holstein in 1858, Empress Augusta Victoria, known in the family as 'Dona', was marked out from early childhood as a potential bride for Prince William of Prussia. When they married in 1881, everyone expected that she would never concern herself...
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  • The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed: Rock Classics by Der Kiste, John Van
    John Van Der Kiste

    The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed: Rock Classics

    Released in 1969, Let it Bleed was The Rolling Stones' eighth studio album (tenth in the USA). The second in a sequence of four consecutive records that comprised their creative peak, it is considered by many to be their best. After a period of...
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  • William and Mary: Heroes of the Glorious Revolution by Kiste, John Van Der
    John Van Der Kiste

    William and Mary: Heroes of the Glorious Revolution

    Mary (1662-1694), daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English throne, then 15, is said to have wept for a day and a half when she was told she was to marry her cousin, William (1650-1702), son of William II of Orange...
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