What was it like to live as a royal Tudor? Why were their residences built as they were & what went on inside their walls? Who slept where & with who? Who chose the furnishings? & what were their passions? The Tudors ruled through the day, throughout the night, in the bath, in bed & in the saddle. Their palaces were genuine power houses
- the nerve-centre of military operations, the boardroom for all executive decisions & the core of international politics. Houses of Power is the result of Simon Thurley`s thirty years of research, picking through architectural digs, & examining financial accounts, original plans & drawings to reconstruct the great Tudor houses & understand how these monarchs shaped their lives. Far more than simply an architectural history
- a study of private life as well as politics, diplomacy & court
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The houses & castles of the Lake District, secreted among the lakes & fells, are inextricably linked with their dramatic setting. Many are architecturally distinguished, even more have intriguing tales to tell. In this book Christopher Holliday explores in detail the history & architecture of the houses & the personal stories of their owners through the centuries right up to the present day. Clive Boursnell's stunning photographs capture the houses, inside & out, their gardens & their setting. Houses covered include: Levens Hall, Sizergh Castle, Holker Hall, Blackwell, Dalemain, Hutton-in-the-Forest, Dove Cottage, Rydal, Mirehouse, Brantwood, Hill Top, & many more. ...

The National Trust cares for a wealth of houses & historic buildings of all types, ranging from the grand to the quirky to the humble. This captivating book, fully revised & updated for 2013 & featuring more houses than ever before, is a guide to some of the greatest architectural treasures of Britain, encompassing both interior & exterior design. The houses covered include spectacular mansions such as Petworth House & Waddesdon Manor, & more lowly dwellings such as the Birmingham Back to Backs & estate villages like Blaise Hamlet, near Bristol. In addition to houses, the book also covers fascinating buildings as diverse as churches, windmills, dovecotes, castles, follies, barns & even pubs. The book also acts as an overview of the country`s architectural history, with every period covered: the medieval stronghold of Bodiam Castle, Tudor eccentricity in Hardwick Hall, 18th-century grandeur at Kedleston Hall, Victorian fantasy at Tyntesfield, & the clean-lined Modernism of The Homewood. The book teems with stories of the people who lived & worked in these buildings: wealthy collectors (Charles Wade at Snowshill), captains of industry (William Armstrong at Cragside), prime ministers (Winston Churchill at Chartwell) & pop stars (John Lennon at Mendips). Written in evocative, imaginative prose & illustrated with glorious images from the National Trust`s photographic library, this book is an essential guide to the built heritage of Engl&, Wales & Northern Irel&. ...

This captivating book, fully revised & updated & featuring more NT houses than ever before, is a guide to some of the greatest architectural treasures of Britain, encompassing both interior & exterior design. This new edition is fully revised & updated, &

Includes:: entries for eight new properties including: Dyffryn, Eyam Hall, Goddards, Leith Hill Place, Stoneywell, Allan Bank, Belmont Tower & Dapdune Wharf. An entirely updated entry for Clandon is also included & covers the recent restoration work. The houses covered include spectacular mansions such as Petworth House & Waddesdon Manor, & more lowly dwellings such as the Birmingham Back to Backs & estate villages like Blaise Hamlet, near Bristol. In addition to houses, the book also covers fascinating buildings as diverse as churches, windmills, dovecotes, castles, follies, barns & even pubs. The book also acts as an overview of the country`s architectural history, with every period covered, from the medieval stronghold of Bodiam Castle to the clean-lined Modernism of The Homewood. The book teems with stories of the people who lived & worked in these buildings: wealthy collectors (Charles Wade at Snowshill), captains of industry (William Armstrong at Cragside), prime ministers (Winston Churchill at Chartwell) & pop stars (John Lennon at Mendips). Written in evocative, imaginative prose & illustrated with glorious images from the National Trust`s photographic library, this book is an essential guide to the built heritage of Engl&, Wales & Northern Irel&.

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This gorgeous activity book tells the story of houses over time, from a fortified medieval manor, a Tudor farmhouse, a French chateau & Dutch merchant`s house, up to a suburban house during World War II & the Swinging Sixties. Take a look around the different houses & discover how people`s lives have changed over the centuries. ...

Why is it that for many people ` England` has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the ` England` for which people fought in two world wars? What is about the English that makes them constantly hanker for a vanished past, so that nostalgia has become a national characteristic? In March 1896 a small volume of sixty-three poems was published by the small British firm of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd in an edition of 500 copies, priced at half-a-crown each. The author was not a professional poet, but a thirty-seven-year-old professor of Latin at University College, London called Alfred Edward Housman who had been obliged to pay GBP30 towards the cost of publication. Although slow to sell at first, A Shropshire Lad went on to become one of the most popular books of poetry ever published & has never been out of print. As well as being a publishing phenomenon, the book has had an influence on English culture & notions of what ` England` means, both in England itself & abroad, out of all proportion to its apparent scope. Housman Country will not only look at how A Shropshire Lad came to be written & became a publishing & cultural phenomenon, but will use the poems as a prism through which to examine England & Englishness. The book contains a full transcript of A Shropshire lad itself, also making it a superb present. ...

Houston & the Texas Gulf Coast in the Moon Spotlight guide series; covering a range of specific local cities, districts, areas & regions in North, Central & South America & targeted at those seeking to travel to a specific area within a country. Each of the guides has been extracted in full from the relevant country Moon Handbook & individual titles focus on a particular city, region or notable area of the destination. Many of the guides in the series are unique in their coverage, although are limited in putting the destination into its wider geographical context that a more comprehensive guide would provide. Stylistically, Moon ...

Houston in Texas on a laminated, waterproof & tear-resistant street plan at 1:91, 000 from Mapsco, with an enlargement showing the downtown area in greater detail. The index

Includes:: separate lists of various places of interest highlighted on the map, including parks, municipal buildings, schools & academic institutions, etc. The plan indicates controlled access highways & toll roads, showing interchange numbers. Also marked are municipal & zip code boundaries & symbols indicate locations of various facilities & places of interest. Downtown Houston is shown in greater detail on an enlargement with streets annotated with block numbers.

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Houston in Texas on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. Insets provide a more detailed street plan of downtown Houston, plus a road map of the city’s environs which

Includes:: part of the coastline between Beach City & Galveston. Coverage

Includes:: Houston’s George Bush International Airport; communities include Bellaire, Bunker Hill Village, Hedwig Village, Hilshire Village, Hunters Creek Village, Meadows Place, Piney Point Village, Spring Valley & West University Place.NEW STREET PLAN CARTOGRAPHY FROM RAND Mc NALLY: Rand Mc Nally are currently changing the cartography of their street plans to a more “ European” style. In many titles streets are now shown by parallel lines, providing a much clearer, easier to read presentation. Better use of colouring indicates different types of land use and/or institutions (parks, shopping centres, academic institutions, etc) &, in most titles, different administrative units. More streets are annotated with block numbers. Some new editions still retain the traditional American presentation of streets by a single line, but with more prominent marking for various institutions, facilities & places of interest. Our cartography sample indicates which style is used in this title.COVERAGE: Rand Mc Nally street plans cover cities with their outer suburbs, prominently highlighting principal traffic arteries & connecting main streets. Railway & subway stations are marked.



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Houston & the surrounding region on an indexed road map from Rand Mc Nally, with coverage extending to the Gulf of Mexico. Additional panels provide more detailed street plans of downtown Houston, the Galleria/ Post Oak & the Hobby Airport area, access to the Houston LBJ Space Centre & to the city’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, plus central Galveston. Coverage of the main map extends north to Lake Conroe & south to the Gulf, with a further panel on the reverse extending it further east to include Galveston & Port Arthur; coverage

Includes:: Baytown, Beaumont, Conroe, La Porte, Lake Jackson, League City, Missouri City, Pasadena, Pearl&, Sugar Land & Teas City. Maps in this series present the road network on a clear background with no relief shading to show the area’s topography, but with national or state parks, forests & other protected areas indicated by colouring. Roads are numbered and/or named, showing toll highways, exit numbers of interchanges, services & rest areas. Local airports are marked, but railways & other urban transport lines are not included unless specifically indicated in the individual description. Each town is presented in a different colour, providing those unfamiliar with the region a very clear picture of the area. Various places of interest & facilities are highlighted, including cultural & historical sites, educational institutions, sport & recreational facilities, etc. Each title is indexed. Several maps also include enlargements of the downtown area, plans of international airports, a mileage & driving times diagram for a much wider region than covered by the main map, etc
- for more information please see the individual descriptions. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link.


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