For centuries, as well as being places of worship and refuge, churches have provided permanent and reliable signposts for passing travellers and students of history. In making his selection of the 1000 churches throughout England, Scotland and Wales that he considers most worth visiting, David N. Durant has concentrated on the little-known and often surprising treasures to be found inside town and village churches and chapels. Here are details of where you can discover maiden garlands, the seven Norman Tournai marble fonts, paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck and Stanley Spencer, as well as the most interesting tombs and monuments, furniture and wall paintings, hatchments, helms and armour. These churches are a unique part of our heritage and deserve to be visited and explored, and preserved for future generations.

THE GOOD CHURCH GUIDE: OVER 1000 OF THE BEST CHURCHES TO VISIT IN THE BRITIAN

DURANT, David N.

Religion & Spirituality

RANDOM HOUSE UK

A perfect pocket guide for visiting stately homes, cathedrals, castles and other old buildings in Britain. Separate sections divide architecture into six chronological periods, each with an introduction to the history of the period, brief notes on the architects and styles with typical examples of the buildings throughout Britain that are open to the public.

The Handbook of British Architectural Styles

History

Europe

Presenting a fascinating biography of an extraordinary woman, this is essential reading for those interested in the 16th century and Tudor history. Born the daughter of an impoverished Derbyshire squire, through a succession of advantageous marriages, Bess of Hardwick moved closer and closer to a position of power and influence in the heart of the royal court. As the Countess of Shrewsbury, she was the second most powerful woman in the land after Queen Elizabeth I. However, Bess of Hardwick was not just someone who married well but a formidable and talented business woman who ran her estates with great acumen and who became one of the richest women in England. Queen Elizabeth I held Bess in such esteem that she entrusted her with the important and arduous task of acting as jailer to Mary, Queen of Scots. During her lifetime Bess built two great country houses which are still admired today—Chatsworth and Hardwick—and fulfilled her lifetime's ambition of founding a great dynasty. By the end of the 19th century, her blood was flowing through most of the aristocratic families of England, and she more than guaranteed her status as one of the most remarkable women in Tudor history.

Bess of Hardwick: Portrait of an Elizabethan dynast

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Arbella Stuart: A rival to the queen

Raleigh's lost colony

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Where Queen Elizabeth Slept and What the Butler Saw: A Treasury of Historical Terms from the Sixteenth Century to the Present

Who was a tweenie? How did an ice house work and where would you find a crinkum-crankum wall? What was a chesterfield for, or a Claude glass, and how did a clock jack improve your dinner? Who invented fish and chips and what was a Harden Star Grenade? Why were the windows of Chatsworth gilded on the outside and what do you know about priest holes? Who invented the ha-ha and for what purpose? Who were the members of the Hell-Fire Club? History buffs want to know more than just dates and dry facts. They want to know how people lived, what they ate, how they spoke, how they dressed, what games they played, what their homes looked like. This dictionary offers us a key to the past. It explains what part each object or ritual played in the life of the household and the community. It gives us an understanding of the society, by revealing the fascinating details of life, and allows the reader to travel back in time and experience a typical day in any century from the sixteenth to our own. The book shows social life in all its variety, and it opens a whole new world of understanding. This is a book to give hours of pleasure whether browsed through or used for reference -- it contains a wealth of unexpected information.

St.Martin's Press

Who was a tweenie? How did an ice house work and where would you find a crinkum-crankum wall? What was a chesterfield for, or a Claude glass, and how did a clock jack improve your dinner? The answers to these and many other questions appear in this dictionary, which is a feast of information and trivia for history buffs everywhere wanting to know more than just dates and dry facts. They want to know how people lived: what they ate, how they spoke, how they dressed, what games they played, what their homes looked like. This unique dictionary reveals the fascinating details of life, allowing the reader to travel back in time and experience a typical day in any century from the sixteenth to our own. A book to give hours of pleasure whether browsed through or used for reference-it contains a wealth of unexpected information.

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

St. Martin's: Griffin

Bess of Hardwick: Portrait of an Elizabethan Dynast

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Atheneum Books

Raleigh's Lost Colony

Americas

Atheneum

Hillary Clinton's memoir focus's on her eight years at the White House - what she lived through, how she felt about her experiences then and now, why she made the choices she did - in short, a very personal book. Hillary Clinton talks about all the political events and highlights of her White House years and about Bill Clinton's impeachment.

Life in the Country House: A Historical Dictionary

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

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