The Stories

A History of the Crusades vol.3

Steven Runciman, 1954

Chronicle including the 6th Crusade led by Emperor Frederick II and accompanied by William Bishop of Exeter and Sir Stephen de Haccombe, first published by Cambridge University Press.

Combat and Carnival

Peter Carew, 1954

An account of the Carew family from the French Revolution to the Crimean War, published by Constable, London.

Over the Hills…

William Keble Martin, 1968

Biography of the celebrated author of ‘The Concise British Flora in Colour’, Archpriest of Haccombe, published by Michael Joseph, London.

King Henry VIII’s Mary Rose

Alexander McKee, 1973

History of, and rediscovery of, the lost flagship, and her connection to the Carews of Haccombe, published by Souvenir Press, London.

“No-one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”

Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend