Author : National Trust (Great Britain)
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
This illustrated history of the development of British society looks particularly at the properties of the National Trust and the National Trust for Scotland. These include Avebury in Wiltshire, Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire and Kellie Castle in Fife. The text includes cameo pieces on life at Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire, monasticism at Mount Grace Priory and the medieval diet, while maps help convey historical and archaeological information with clarity.
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
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Author : National Trust (Great Britain)
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
This book traces the development of British society and culture from prehistory to the present day.
Author : Nigel Saul
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781858338026
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
This illustrated volume traces the social and cultural history of Britain from the early 15th to the late 18th century. The maps and photographs focus on archaeological and historical sites held by the British National Trust and the book develops themes including wealth and status, agriculture and rural society, town and industry, population and the family, religion and education, and also spotlights particular events such as the Wars of the Roses, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Great Plague and Jacobitism. A full list of National Trust sites is provided to encourage readers to visit these and other properties where visual remains consolidate the investigations in the atlas itself.
Author : Martin Davidson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 2002-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312303419
"A companion to the acclaimed BBC/History Channel series"--Cover.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 2008-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0752496247
In his New History of England, leading historian Jeremy Black takes a cool and dispassionate look at the vicissitudes of over two millennia of English history.
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Page : 862 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Maps
ISBN :
Author : Tim Jepson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1426215533
This fascinating heritage in breathtaking National Geographic style with gorgeous photographs and artwork, engaging narrative, information sidebars, and premium-quality maps specially commissioned for this book.
Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1472101138
This book includes more than 1000 monarchs who have at some time ruled all or part of Britain. This includes the host of tribal and Saxon rulers prior to 1066 as well as famous monarchs such as Richard III, Elizabeth I and Charles II and all the rulers of Scotland and Wales. The book gives full details of the lives of the rulers as well as their wives, consorts, pretenders, usurpers and regents and is a geographical guide to where all Britain's monarchs lived, ruled and died including their palaces, estates and resting places.
