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32 produkter
By Permission Of Heaven
The Story of the Great Fire of London
Häftad, 2004
188 kr
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There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. Yet the signs from the heavens in 1666 were ominous: comets, pyramids of flame, monsters born in city slums. Then, in the early hours on 2 September, a small fire broke out on the …
Behind the Throne
A Domestic History of the Royal Household
Inbunden, 2018
282 kr
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Behind the Throne is, above all, a history of family life.They ate, entertained their friends and worried about money. Henry VIII kept tripping over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back on the drink bills.The great difference is that royal families had more …
Pirates Of Barbary
Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean
Häftad, 2011
160 kr
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From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Christian and Muslim seafarers met in bustling ports to swap religions, to battle and to trade goods and sales - raiding as far as Ireland and Iceland in search of their human currency.Studying the …
Long Weekend
Life in the English Country House Between the Wars
Häftad, 2018
232 kr
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'A masterpiece of social history' Daily MailThere is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the …
House Party
A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend
E-bok, 2019
15 kr
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A delightful journey through the glamorous story of the English country house party by the bestselling historian.Croquet. Parlour games. Cocktails. Welcome to a glorious journey through the golden age of the country house party - and you are invited. Our host, celebrated historian Adrian …
His Invention So Fertile
Häftad, 2002
344 kr
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Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was the greatest architect Britain has ever known. But he was more than that. A founder of the Royal Society, he mapped the moon and the stars, investigated the problem of longitude and the rings of Saturn, and carried out groundbreaking experiments into the circulation …
Verneys
Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England
E-bok, 2010
144 kr
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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.In this extraordinary saga, Adrian Tinniswood draws on tens of thousands of letters, which survived by chance in an attic, to reveal the remarkable world of the Verneys, a family of Buckinghamshire gentry in the seventeenth century. Here is Edmund Verney, …
His Invention So Fertile
E-bok, 2010
167 kr
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Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was the greatest architect Britain has ever known. But he was more than that. A founder of the Royal Society, he mapped the moon and the stars, investigated the problem of longitude and the rings of Saturn, and carried out groundbreaking experiments into the circulation …
By Permission Of Heaven
The Story of the Great Fire of London
E-bok, 2011
147 kr
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There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. Yet the signs from the heavens in 1666 were ominous: comets, pyramids of flame, monsters born in city slums. Then, in the early hours on 2 September, a small fire broke out on the …
Pirates Of Barbary
Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean
E-bok, 2011
125 kr
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From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Christian and Muslim seafarers met in bustling ports to swap religions, to battle and to trade goods and sales - raiding as far as Ireland and Iceland in search of their human currency.Studying the …
Rainborowes
E-bok, 2013
147 kr
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The Rainborowes bridges two generations and two worlds, weaving together the lives of the Rainborowe clan as they struggle to forge a better life for themselves and a better future for humankind in the New World. Starting with William Rainborowe, a prominent merchant-mariner and shipmaster, and his …
Long Weekend
Life in the English Country House Between the Wars
E-bok, 2016
136 kr
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERVenture behind closed doors to uncover the secrets of life in the English country house between the wars – in all its splendour. During the 1920s and 1930s, as the sun set slowly on the British Empire, England's stately homes concealed worlds both opulent and ordinary, …
Behind the Throne
A Domestic History of the Royal Household
E-bok, 2018
170 kr
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Behind the Throne is, above all, a history of family life.They ate, entertained their friends and worried about money. Henry VIII kept tripping over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back on the drink bills.The great difference is that royal families had more …
Great Fire of London
The Essential Guide
E-bok, 2016
74 kr
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2 SEPTEMBER 1666: 350 YEARS SINCE THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON In the early hours of 2 September 1666 a small fire broke out in a bakery in Pudding Lane. In the five days that followed it grew into a conflagration that would devastate the third largest city in the Western world.This short edition is …
Noble Ambitions
The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House
E-bok, 2021
125 kr
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From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic values.'Preposterously entertaining' Observer'Brilliant' Daily Telegraph'Rollicking' Sunday TimesAs the …
Noble Ambitions
The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House
Ljudbok, 2021
171 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire in the years after the Second World War, the nation''s stately homes were in crisis. Tottering under the weight of rising taxes and a growing sense that they had no place in twentieth-century Britain, hundreds of ancestral piles …
Noble Ambitions
The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House
Häftad, 2023
160 kr
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From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic values.'Preposterously entertaining' Observer'Brilliant' Daily Telegraph'Rollicking' Sunday TimesAs the …
Power and the Glory
The Country House Before the Great War
E-bok, 2024
231 kr
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'Enthralling' Lucy Worsley'Wonderful' Judith Flanders'A whirling, waltzing panorama through the last carefree age of British nobility’ New StatesmanAdrian Tinniswood opens the doors on the excess, intrigue and absurdities of life in the late Victorian and Edwardian country houseIn the decades …
Power and the Glory
The Country House Before the Great War
Häftad, 2026
171 kr
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'Enthralling' Lucy Worsley'Wonderful' Judith Flanders'A whirling, waltzing panorama through the last carefree age of British nobility’ New StatesmanAdrian Tinniswood opens the doors on the excess, intrigue and absurdities of life in the late Victorian and Edwardian country houseIn the decades …
Power and the Glory
The Country House Before the Great War
Ljudbok, 2024
184 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. Adrian Tinniswood opens the doors on the excess, intrigue and absurdities of life in the late Victorian and Edwardian country house In the decades before the First World War, the owners of the nation’s stately homes revelled in a golden age of glory and glamour. Nothing …
Long Weekend
Life in the English Country House Between the Wars
Häftad, 2026
176 kr
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERVenture behind closed doors to uncover the secrets of life in the English country house between the wars – in all its splendour. During the 1920s and 1930s, as the sun set slowly on the British Empire, England's stately homes concealed worlds both opulent and ordinary, …
The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England
Häftad, 2008
356 kr
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Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean
Häftad, 2011
345 kr
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Houses of Guinness
The Lives, Homes and Fortunes of the Great Brewing Dynasty
Inbunden, 2025
334 kr
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'Tinniswood has created a tome of architectural brilliance, uncomfortable historical truths, and a complicated legacy of power and philanthropy.' – The Irish TimesStep inside the historic homes of the Guinness family and enter a world of power, privilege and palatial living. The Guinnesses became …
Royal Society
E-bok, 2019
142 kr
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The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions , published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer …
House Party
A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend
Inbunden, 2019
116 kr
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A delightful journey through the glamorous story of the English country house party by the bestselling historian.Croquet. Parlour games. Cocktails. Welcome to a glorious journey through the golden age of the country house party - and you are invited. Our host, celebrated historian Adrian …
Noble Ambitions
Inbunden, 2021
375 kr
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A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic values As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, its mansions fell and rose. Ancient families were reduced to demolishing the parts of their stately homes they could no longer …
