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Author : Edgar Sheppard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Royal Palace of Whitehall written by Edgar Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Thurley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300076398
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Whitehall Palace written by Simon Thurley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles information about a myriad of topics, ranging from the arts and life sciences to computers and the zodiac. 8 yrs+
Author : Edgar Sheppard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Old Royal Palace of Whitehall written by Edgar Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Thurley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781872911908
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (119 download)
Download or read book The Lost Palace of Whitehall written by Simon Thurley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Thurley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008389977
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court written by Simon Thurley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.
Author : Colin Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847377386
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Whitehall written by Colin Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHITEHALL - the name of a street now synonymous with the civil service - has been the centre of British religious and political power for over 500 years. Whitehalltakes the reader behind closed doors to explore the fascinating history that lies behind the façade of the great departments of state and some of the greatest figures in British history, including Henry Vlll's playground, the execution of Charles I, Nelson's tortured love life, and Winston Churchill's plans for a last stand against the forces of Hitler's Nazi invaders. It explores the private house in Whitehall - ignored by tourists today - which became the most notorious address in London, when Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb conducted their very public and tempestuous love affair there. Inside Admiralty House, screened from public view, is the elablorately decorated boardroom equipped with its own wind clock where Nelson received his orders to attack the French. There is also the dining room where Nelson fumed over dinner with his wife Fanny, who burst into tears at his black mood. Fragments of the tennis courts where Anne Boleyn watched Henry Vlll playing tennis in his 'slops' have survived behind the walls of the Cabinet Office at 70 Whitehall. Beyond its glass doors, a secret passageway leads to Number Ten Downing Street. Cabinet papers reveal that Winston Churchill planned to use Whitehall as a 'fortress' in 1940 when Britain faced imminent invasion by Hitler's Nazi forces. The documents published for the first time show how Churchill prepared for street fighting in Whitehall's departments, as he made his final stand. And it also reveals for the first time the films that helped Churchill escape the rigors of war in his underground cinema at Whitehall as the Prime Minister battled to preserve Britain for another 1,000 years.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Survey of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Sharr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351945254
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Demolishing Whitehall written by Adam Sharr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old. It is the story of a grand plan to demolish most of Whitehall, London’s historic government district, and replace it with a ziggurat-section megastructure built in concrete. In 1965 the architect Leslie Martin submitted a proposal to Charles Pannell, Minister of Public Building and Works in Harold Wilson’s Labour government, for the wholesale reconstruction of London’s ’Government Centre’. Still reeling from war damage, its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century palaces stood as the patched-up headquarters of an imperial bureaucracy which had once dominated the globe. Martin’s plan - by no means modest in conception, scope or scale - proposed their replacement with a complex that would span the roads into Parliament Square, reframing the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. The project was not executed in the manner envisaged by Martin and his associates, although a surprising number of its proposals were implemented. But the un-built architecture is examined here for its insights into a distinctive moment in British history, when a purposeful technological future seemed not just possible but imminent, apparently sweeping away an anachronistic Edwardian establishment to be replaced with a new meritocracy forged in the ’white heat of technology’. The Whitehall plan had implications well beyond its specific site. It was imagined by its architects as a scientific investigation into ideal building forms for the future, an important development in their project to unify science and art. For the political actors, it represented a tussle between government departments, between those who believed that Britain needed to discard much of its Victorian and Edwardian decoration in the name of ’professionalization’ and those who sought to preserve its ornate finery. Demolishing Whitehall investigates these tensions between ideas of technology and history, science and art, socialism and el
Author : Royal Collection Trust
Publisher : Royal Collection Editions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Charles II written by Royal Collection Trust and published by Royal Collection Editions. This book was released on 2018 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Restoration era of the British monarchy covers the reigns of Charles II (1660-85) and James II (1685-8). This publication focuses on the art and culture of the Restoration court at this time, including the development of an 'English baroque' and the use of court ritual and art (especially decorative art) by both monarchs. This sumptuously illustrated book showcases the replacement crown jewels made for the coronation of Charles II in 1661, his collection of Italian Old Master paintings, drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and the spectacular furnishings of the palaces of Whitehall and St James's.
Author : Sir Tony Robinson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 028307258X
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)
Download or read book No Cunning Plan written by Sir Tony Robinson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed full of incident and insight, No Cunning Plan is a funny, self-deprecating and always entertaining memoir by Sir Tony Robinson. Sir Tony Robinson is a much-loved actor, presenter and author with a stellar career lasting over fifty years. In this autobiography he reveals how the boy from South Woodford went from child stardom in the first stage production of Oliver!, a pint-sized pickpocket desperately bleaching his incipient moustache, to comedy icon Baldrick, the loyal servant and turnip aficionado in Blackadder. It wasn't all plain sailing though. Along the way he was bullied by Steve Marriott, failed to impress Liza Minnelli and was pushed into a stinking London dock by John Wayne. He also entertained us with Maid Marion and Her Merry Men (which he wrote and starred in) and coped manfully when locked naked outside a theatre in Lincoln during the live tour of comedy series Who Dares Wins. He presented Time Team for twenty years, watching countless gardens ruthlessly dug up in the name of archaeology, and risked life and limb filming The Worst Jobs in History.
Author : Sarah Morris
Publisher : In the Footsteps of
ISBN 13 : 9781445671147
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (711 download)
Download or read book In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII written by Sarah Morris and published by In the Footsteps of. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles and houses associated with Henry VIII's six wives
Author : Simon Thurley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780593074947
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Houses of Power written by Simon Thurley and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to live as a royal Tudor? Why were their residences built as they were and what went on inside their walls? Who slept where and with whom? Who chose the furnishings? And what were their passions? The Tudors ruled through the day, throughout the night, in the bath, in bed and in the saddle. Their palaces were genuine power houses - the nerve-center of military operations, the boardroom for all executive decisions and the core of international politics. 'Houses of Power' is the result of Simon Thurley's 30 years of research, picking through architectural digs, and examining financial accounts, original plans and drawings to reconstruct the great Tudor houses and understand how these monarchs shaped their lives.
Author : Edward Walford
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Old and New London a Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury written by Edward Walford and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Thornbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Old and New London: a Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places ...: Westminster and the western suburbs written by Walter Thornbury and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Walter Thornbury
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Old and new London: a narrative of its history, its people and its places, by W. Thornbury (E. Walford). written by George Walter Thornbury and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Fisher Browne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Dial written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vic Keegan
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ISBN 13 : 9780954076283
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (762 download)
Download or read book Lost London 2 written by Vic Keegan and published by . This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vic Keegan's Lost London (2) is the second of two books that together have taken over six years of research and are still yielding surprises Vic had no idea that the mundane Highbury and Islington station used to look like an Italian Palazzo before being shamefully pull down, nor that there was an extraordinary cricket match in Walworth between a team from Greenwich with only one leg and the other from Chelsea with only one arm, nor that in 1810, a black bare knuckle fighter was swindled out of being world champion by white subterfuge. There are dozens of similar tales which he hopes you will enjoy. The author spent most of his working life at the Guardian writing among other things a fortnightly economics column for nearly 25 years before finishing off with a weekly column on consumer technology ranging from mobile phones to virtual worlds. He has written six poetry books including London My London with over 80 poems about the capital and the Thames. He is married to Rosie with two children Dan and Chris. David Aaronovitch's review of the first book is here: https: //www.onlondon.co.uk/book-review-vic-keegans-lost-london/
