[PDF] The Ordnance Survey Guide To Historic Houses In Britain eBook

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393304015

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Describes the history and background of more than one hundred eighty mansions and palaces in Scotland, England, and Wales, and provides information on hours, facilities, and restrictions.

Author : Kathleen Spaltro
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Families of royal descent
ISBN : 0595373127

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Are you intrigued by Brother Cadfael or Jane Austen's heroines and want to learn more about Maud the Empress or the Prince Regent? Need a better grasp of the background to Shakespeare's history plays or career? Let Royals of England fill in the missing links. Royals of England offers lively biographies of royal personages that accompany detailed accounts of geographic sites and websites. Placed in chronological order, each profile can easily be read as a self-contained narrative. With the information provided by authors Kathleen Spaltro and Noeline Bridge, you'll be able to design a tour around a royal person of interest or search out all the royal persons associated with a certain locale. Fifty family trees, one or more for most chapters, help you identify members of different royal houses. You'll be able to determine how the Jacobite Pretenders passed their claim to the Kings of Sardinia, or how Lettice Knollys, wife to Leicester and mother to Essex, was related to Elizabeth I. Royals of England provides a useful resource for history enthusiasts, travelers, and genealogists alike.

Author : N.S. Baer
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1483162877

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Science, Technology and European Cultural Heritage is a collection of papers from the Proceedings of the European Symposium of the same title held in Bologna, Italy on June13-16, 1989. The papers discuss the critical issues related to the scientific and technical aspects of the protection and conservation of the cultural heritage of Europe. Participants of the symposium identify and describe the main research and development issues that are common to cultural heritage problems, and increase cooperation in these areas. Other papers examine the applicability of research and development through better matching with the real needs of conservators, restorers, policy makers, and the general public. The participants also discuss specific research and development directions for the future, including the provision of a scientific basis for European Community policies on environment and culture. One paper presents some of the scientific research done both in the field and laboratory of specific historical areas, monuments, indoor objects. As an example, archaeologists can use infrared thermal image analysis as an enhanced tool to detect buried archeological and historical sites. Another paper analyzes the chemical and physical properties of deteriorated stones in historical monuments in Castile-Leon. The collection can prove useful for archaeologists, historians, museum curators, and policy makers involved in national and cultural preservation.

Author : Benjamin Disraeli
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802029270

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Part of the critically acclaimed Letters of Benjamin Disraeli series. This volume contains or describes letters written by Disraeli between 1848 and 1851.

Author : Benjamin Disraeli
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802041371

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The latest volume in the critically acclaimed Letters of Benjamin Disraeli series contains or describes 952 letters (778 perviously unpublished) written by Disraeli between 1852 and 1856.

Author : David Kemp
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 1992-01-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1770700706

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Is a famous queen of Britain really bured beneath platform 10 at King’s Cross station in London? What is the telephone number of the National Theatre? what is the best place to eat in Worcester? Where is the National Bagpipe Museum? (Hint: not in Scotland) Was Pointius Pilate born in Pitlochry? The answers to these questions and literally thousands more are to be found in David Kemp’s fascinating guidebook, The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain. Nowhere else will the discerning traveller find so much diverse and essential information about British culture gathered together in one volume. With the author as your witty and knowledgeable guide, take a tour through nearly fifty cities, from Penzance to Perth, from London to Cardiff and Belfast. Each city section begins with a concise, readable history and a guided walk around the town, planned to take in as many of the significant local sights as can comfortably be included. Next are exhaustive listings, including telephone numbers and addresses, of everything a culturally curious visitor might want to seek out: theatre, art galleries, museums, antique markets, antiquarian and other bookstores, restaurants, lcoal fairs and festivals and more. Finally, under the headings of Artistic Associations and Ephemera, each section concludes with an entertaining collection of local lore, gossip, legend and anecdote.

Author : Benjamin Disraeli
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802099491

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This volume collects 556 of Disraeli's letters from a tumultuous period in European history – years that witnessed the Italian revolution, the Polish revolt against Russia, anxiety about Napoleon III's intentions in Europe, and the American Civil War.