Blair Worden

The Rainborowes, by Adrian Tinniswood – review

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  • The Rainborowes: Pirates, Puritans and a Family’s Quest for the Promised Land

    Adrian Tinniswood

    Cape, pp. 432

Adrian Tinniswood, so gifted and spirited a communicator of serious history to a wide readership, here brings a number of themes from his previous books together. The Verneys recounted the individual experiences of 17th-century members of a leading Buckinghamshire family. The Rainborowes, set in the same period, applies the same technique to a less substantial family of Londoners.

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