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The Inner Temple is many things to many people: a community of highly motivated and highly trained professionals; a cluster of fine buildings in the heart of London; an honourable society with its own etiquette, rules and traditions; an institution proud of more than six centuries of history.This richly illustrated celebratory volume published on the occasion of the institution's 400th anniversary, will reflect the distinctively collegiate life in the Inner Temple through stimulating and entertaining individual memories, anecdotes and stories of members of the Society.Themes and topics in the book include: The Temple of the Knights; the coming of the lawyers; Lord Robert Dudley; the pegasus and the revels; from Chaucer to Mortimer - the Inn's literary connections; learning the law; architectural heritage' the Inn's treasures; Lord Chancellors; illustrious and notorious members; life at the Bar and in chambers; the Inner Temple and the wider world and, a day in the life of the Inn.

FOR TABLET DEVICES. Foreword by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, and Preface by Julie Summers, bestselling author of Jambusters.In a century that has seen the role of women in both domestic and public life change irrevocably, the role of the Women''s Institute in effecting change has often gone unappreciated.From the barracking of Tony Blair at their AGM in 2000, through the extraordinary story of the WI Calendar Girls, and after a hundred years of campaigning and solidarity, the WI is enjoying a resurgence in popularity among younger city-dwelling women, while remaining firmly rooted in its rural origins. Women''s Century celebrates the WI''s centenary in 2015, calling attention to the indispensable role it has played in the development of women''s rights. From its establishment in a 1915 Britain suffering the rigours of war in Europe, the WI has become the UK''s most popular women''s organisation, playing a crucial role in encouraging women''s education and equal pay, prison reform and, more recently, AIDS awareness and fair trade. Focusing on powerful images of the WI and its work, the book tells its story to a new generation of men and women, whose forebears 100 years ago could never have imagined the force their fledgling new organisation would become.