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Bob Fowke.
What They Don’t Tell You About Elizabeth I, Her Friends and Relations.
Published London: Hodder Children’s Books, 2nd impression (previously issued 1995).
Series: What They Don’t Tell You.
ISBN 0340656131.
ISBN-13: 9780340656136.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
ISBN Bookmarque, Croydon.
Size: 129×196×9mm.
Page count: 128pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs on its covers, a little wear on the edges and corners; pages a bit foxed and yellowed with age; otherwise doesn’t look heavily used, the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £5.00
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Weight without packaging: 102g.

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“Dedicated to clever girls with long pointed noses everywhere.” From the first flush toilets to Tudor toothpaste, including all the bits in between that your teacher never told you, find out the whole story about life under Elizabeth!

Contents: Look out for the lanky lady!; Kids stuff; Teen scenes; Home comforts; Leisure pleasures; dashing Dudley, demon lover; Off with her head!; Workers & shirkers; London louts & hard bards; Loads of loot; Armada!; Troublesome toyboy; Goodbye Elizabeth; What happened next.
Appendices: State the date; Grand quiz — test your Tudor expertise.

Illustrations: monochrome cartoons throughout
Maps & plans: 9

Notes: occasional, at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 1 page
Index: yes

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