Desmond Eric Christopher Seward (22 May 1935 – 3 April 2022) was an Anglo-Irish popular historian and the author of many books, including biographies...
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an artillery park out of range from Castillon's guns. According to Desmond Seward, the park "consisted of a deep trench with a wall of earth behind it...
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both sides. In his book A Brief History of The Hundred Years' War, Desmond Seward states that Charles V of France ("Charles the Wise") is reported to...
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Salter, The Last Years of a Rebel, A Memoir of Edith Sitwell (1967) Desmond Seward, Renishaw Hall: The Story of the Sitwells (2015) E. Sitwell, Taken Care...
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alternative successions". New Statesman. Retrieved 16 October 2019. Desmond Seward (2019). King Over the Water: A Complete History of the Jacobites. Birlinn...
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Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2016. Desmond Seward, An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia (Haus Publishing, 2013) Stefania...
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manner of the prince's death is one of historical speculation. See: Desmond Seward. "The Wars of the Roses", and Charles Ross, "Wars of the Roses". Both...
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P.G. Wodehouse[citation needed]. As late as the 1970s the historian Desmond Seward was reported by the Daily Telegraph to have been threatened with horsewhipping...
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Plantagenet Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, Baltimore, Md., 2004, p. 690. The Last White Rose by Desmond Seward, New York, 2013, ISBN 978-1-60598-549-7...
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States. Cambridge University Press. pp. 44–45. ISBN 978-0521833721. Seward, Desmond (1995). The monks of war : the military religious orders (2nd, Rev...
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paperback ISBN 1-85514-141-8 Renishaw Hall: The Story of the Sitwells, Desmond Seward; hardback published by Elliott & Thompson, 2015 A Nest of Tigers: The...
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The new chronicles of England and France, in two parts, p. 663. [1] Desmond Seward. The Wars of the Roses and the Lives of Five Men and Women in the Fifteenth...
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Official Biography (1990) Brooks's: A Social History (1991) editor with Desmond Seward Wilson: The Authorised Life of Lord Wilson of Rievaulx (1993) on Harold...
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London Life, a series of Extracts from the City Archives, 1276–1419. Desmond Seward, Henry V as Warlord, London: Sidgwick & Jacskon, 1987. Waugh, WT (1905)...
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London's gentlemen's clubs Brooks's : a social history. Philip Ziegler, Desmond Seward. London, England: Constable. 1991. ISBN 0-09-470770-7. OCLC 25246928...
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fragile, believing he was made of glass, and according to historian Desmond Seward, running "howling like a wolf down the corridors of the royal palaces...
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"[citation needed] Historical writers Desmond Seward and Alison Weir, both hostile to Richard, disagree; Seward refers to Kendall as Richard III's "romantic...
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justified by subsequent research, according to historians including Desmond Seward and art historians such as Kenneth Clark. Burckhardt and the German...
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Britain. Seward, Desmond: Eugénie. An empress and her empire. ISBN 0-7509-2979-0 (2004) Life in the Tuileries under the second empire Seward, Desmond: Eugénie...
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foot into battle, resulted, in the words of the British medievalist Desmond Seward, in "a hand-to-hand combat whose ferocity astounded even contemporaries"...
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justified by subsequent research according to historians including Desmond Seward and art historians such as Kenneth Clark.[citation needed] The Civilization...
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arrested one of her lovers whom he tortured, then drowned in the Seine. Desmond Seward writes it was the disinherited Dauphin who had the man killed. Described...
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ISBN 978-1851095612 Bureau Origines. Retrieved 3 April 2013. (in French) Desmond Seward, The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337–1453 (Penguin, 1999)...
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国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション". dl.ndl.go.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved August 1, 2022. Desmond Seward (1983). Richard III: England's Black Legend. Country Life Books. p. 75...
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2011, pp. 380–3. Richardson I 2011, p. 382. Richardson I 2011, p. 381. Desmond Seward: "The Wars of the Roses" pp.43-44 Ellis, Steven G. (2004). "Butler,...
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during the Hundred Years' War. In his work on the Hundred Years' War, Desmond Seward mentions that the Earl of Ormond had raised Irish kern and Gallowglass...
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1944). Pamela Rooke, model and actress, bile duct cancer (b. 1953). Desmond Seward, historian (b. 1935). 4 April Richard Bird, 79, English computer scientist...
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(1917–2012)". National Portrait Gallery. Piers Dixon in Philip Ziegler & Desmond Seward (eds): Brooks's: A Social History, 1991. Shuster, Alvin (27 May 1973)...
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failing source of laughter." Kenneth Rose discovered that the historian Desmond Seward had managed to deduce Widmerpool's identity. This Rose put to Powell...
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ISBN 0-14-019596-3 The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders Desmond Seward 1995 ISBN 978-0-14-019501-9 Medicine Woman Lynn V. Andrews 1989 ISBN 0-14-019160-7...
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