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A Little History of the English Country Church by Roy Strong
Category: History
In this fascinating book Roy Strong tells the dramatic story of the English parish church, from the first temporary buildings erected in Anglo-Saxon times to its uncertain future in the twenty-first century. Starting with the Christianisation of Britain by missionaries from Ireland and Rome, he takes us ...Show more
A Little History of the English Country Church by Roy Strong
Category: Travel Literature
'A highly readable and intelligent narrative account ...Anyone with the slightest interest in the English parish church...will be intrigued, informed and enchanted by this lucid, and occasionally provocative account' - "Country Life". 'The writing is concise, uncluttered, clear. Even when you know the h ...Show more
Coronation: a History of the British Monarchy by Roy Strong
Category: History
The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. 'What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation.What do people talk most about? A Coronation.What is delightful to have passed? A Coronation.'Horace Walpole, 1761 As a boy of sixteen, Roy Strong watched th ...Show more
Feast: A History of Grand Eating by Roy Strong
Category: Food Cooking Wine
Toenails cut while dining, meals served to wax effigies of the dead, napkins concealing singing birds, dishes descending from the ceiling- these are just a few of the more exotic aspects of everyman at table. From the stupendous banquets of the Ancient Babylonians, Feast covers five millennia of formal ...Show more
Feast : A history of grand eating by Roy Strong
Category: History
Toenails cut while dining, meals served to wax effigies of the dead, napkins concealing singing birds, dishes descending from the ceiling - this title covers five millennia of formal eating, from the splendours of the Renaissance banquest to the rigours of the Victorian dinner party.
GARDENS THROUGH THE AGES (1420-1940) by STRONG ROY
Category: Fiction
In this innovative yet down-to-earth book, Roy Strong demonstrates that looking at garden styles of the past offers no just ways to restore or re-create garden styles of a particular period, but also an exciting treasure trove of ideas for small gardens today. Gardening through the Ages will enable anyo ...Show more
Painting the Past: The Victorian Painter and British History by Roy Strong
Category: unmapped
Magnificent Elizabeth, innocent Princes in the Tower, Mary Queen of Scots on the scaffold, and beautiful, tragic Lady Jane Grey--that is how we think of them. The spell they cast is one of reality amplified by the history of Victorian painting; yet many of these paintings have been ignored or despised b ...Show more
Remaking a Garden: The Laskett Transformed by Roy Strong
Category: Home and Garden
The garden at the Laskett in Herefordshire is always described as the largest formal garden laid out in Britain since the war and one of most important and most interesting gardens of the second half of the twentieth century. Roy Strong and his wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman - two pivotal figures in the art ...Show more
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003 by Sir Roy Strong
Category: Biography
Scenes and Apparitions begins where its predecessor, Splendours and Miseries, left off. It covers a period of Roy Strong's life from 1988 to 2003. Shaking off the shackles of public life, Roy was free for the first time to reinvent himself, leaving behind the political and cultural machinations of the a ...Show more
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003 by Sir Roy Strong
Category: Biography
'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Funny, barbed and moving ... magnificently readable' THE TIMESScenes and Apparitions covers a period of Roy Strong's life from 1988 to 2003. A sequel to Splendours and Miseries, it is an unmissable record of how a citize ...Show more
Sir Portrait: 30 Portraits of Roy Strong by Sir Roy Strong
Category: Art and Design
How does the former Director of the nation's greatest collection of portraits celebrate his 80th birthday? The distinguished photographer John Swannell and Roy Strong have devised a series of thirty portraits that transport Roy through time, inventing and reinventing him as an array of historical charac ...Show more