Noble Ambitions Av Adrian Tinniswood

*A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2021* *Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History* ''Preposterously entertaining'' Observer ''Brilliant'' Daily Telegraph ''Rollicking'' Sunday Times 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. 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. Perhaps even more surprising was the fact that so many of these great houses survived, as dukes and duchesses clung desperately to their ancestral seats and tenants'' balls

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Behind The Throne Av Adrian Tinniswood

Behind the Throne uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the reader on a remarkable journey from one Queen Elizabeth to another and exploring life as it was lived by clerks and courtiers and clowns and crowned heads:...

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By Permission Of Heaven Av Adrian Tinniswood

There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. In five days that small fire would devastate the third largest city in the Western world. Adrian Tinniswood's magnificent new account...

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Pirates Of Barbary Av Adrian Tinniswood

Drawing on material, from furious royal proclamations to the private letters of pirates and their victims, as well as Islamic accounts, this title provides perspectives of the corsairs and an insight into what it meant to sacrifice all you have for a...

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The Long Weekend Av Adrian Tinniswood

There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows...

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