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Behind the Throne - Five Centuries of Life in the Royal Household by Adrian Tinniswood
Category: History
Behind the Throneis a history of family life. The families concerned were royal families. But they still had to get up in the morning. They ate and 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 ...Show more
By Permission of Heaven : The story of the Great Fire of London by Adrian Tinniswood
Category: History
There had been other fires, of course. Four hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. The citizens still called it the Great Fire. But that autumn they were more fearful of destruction borne by water. Across the sea, the Dutch and French threatened a country barely recove ...Show more
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood
Category: History
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. From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend- a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the Engl ...Show more
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood
Category: History
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 were dismantled and demolished. ...Show more
Royal Society And The Invention Of Modern Science by Tinniswood Adrian
Category: Social Sciences
The Art Deco House by Adrian Tinniswood
Category: Architecture
The key domestic buildings of the Art Deco period by some of the greatest architects and designers of the 20th century. Today the Art Deco style enjoys a popularity unrivalled since its inception at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, from which the s ...Show more
The Arts and Crafts House by Adrian Tinniswood
Category: Architecture
Adrian Tinniswood explains the Arts and Crafts movement's international influence by exploring the design, decoration, furnishings, and gardens of town and country houses the world over. Chapters cover themes such as: William Morris and his disciples; houses built by architects for themselves; the disti ...Show more
The Great Fire of London - The Essential Guide by Adrian Tinniswood; Samuel Pepys; John Evelyn
Category: History
2 SEPTEMBER 1666: 350 YEARS SINCE THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDONIn 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 the esse ...Show more
The House Party by Adrian Tinniswood
Category: History
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 Tinniswood, tr ...Show more
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939 by Adrian Tinniswood
Category: History
As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous and glamour ...Show more