1603-1714, stuarts

In seventeenth-century London, Meg, who has little interest in cooking, needlework, or other homemaking skills, dreams of becoming a bookseller and someday inheriting her widowed father's book store.

Chronicles the life of seventeenth-century bureaucrat Samuel Pepys, drawing information from the extensive journals he kept examining every aspect of his own life.

Tells the story of the devastating fire that leveled London in 1666, based on firsthand accounts of people who survived the blaze, discusses the reasons why many Londoners believed the fire was a judgment from God, and speculates about the origins of the conflagration.

A biography of Jeffrey Hudson, dubbed Britain's smallest man, describing his presentation to young Queen Henrietta Maria in 1626 when he was seven-years-old and eighteen inches tall, and discussing his humble origins, his experiences at court, his exploits in the English civil war, his capture by pirates, and other aspects of his life.

Discusses what everyday life was like for the members of the different social classes in London during the seventeenth century; includes information on where they worked, what they ate, where they lived, and how they dressed.

Discusses the Stuart family and how they have influenced Scotland and Great Britain.

This biography examines Milton's unorthodox and iconoclastic views on politics, economics, and sex during a time of great religious and political upheaval in England, and discusses the modern-day relevance of his ideas.

In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn.

In seventeenth-century England, cousins Emilia and Luka are the only members of their gypsy family to escape imprisonment and must venture out on their own to find six lucky charms that should restore the family's good fortune and set their relatives free.

Relates events of explorer Henry Hudson's final voyage in 1602 from four points of view, those of his seventeen-year-old son aboard ship, a younger son left in London, a crewmember, and a young English woman acting as a spy in Holland in hopes of restoring honor to her family's name.