Their Noble Lordships: How to Tell a Duke from an Earl... and other mysteries solved by Simon Winchester, Simon Winchester

Their Noble Lordships: How to Tell a Duke from an Earl... and other mysteries solved

Simon Winchester, Simon Winchester

294 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction history reference informative slow-paced
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Winchester writes of the peculiarly English tradition of handing law-making ability to people who have had the simple good fortune of being born into the right family. He travels the height and breadth of the British Isles in search of many of the...

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