A.L. Rowse is well known as an authority on the Elizabethan Age and as the author of the Churchill family history. He is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy, and lives in Cornwall, England.

This book is a treasure chest of anecdotes, ideas and insights) and a historian's personal glimpses of his great contemporaries....

A.L. Rowse is well known as an authority on the Elizabethan Age and as the author of the Churchill family history. He is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy, and lives in Cornwall, England.

This book is a treasure chest of anecdotes, ideas and insights) and a historian's personal glimpses of his great contemporaries....

A.L. Rowse is well known as an authority on the Elizabethan Age and as the author of the Churchill family history. He is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy, and lives in Cornwall, England.

This book is a treasure chest of anecdotes, ideas and insights) and a historian's personal glimpses of his great contemporaries....