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This guide provides details of over 1000 exhibitions in galleries and museums taking place in 2002. Key features include city-centre maps, informations on touring exhibitions, and full contact details for all the venues listed, including website and email addresses. The 2002 edition contains, for the first time, an index of artists featured in the listed exhibitions, aimed at making the book more user-friendly. The range of exhibitions has also been expanded to include greater coverage of those taking place in Ireland. ... Read more

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The Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum is an international project with the objective of publishing all known information about Etruscan mirrors. The Cambridge volume is the first British fascicle to appear. It provides a detailed account of the ancient Etruscan bronze mirrors in the collections of Cambridge University: those of the Lewis Collection of Corpus Christi College, of the Fitzwilliam Museum itself, and of the Museums of Archaeology and Anthropology and of Classical Archaeology. Each mirror is illustrated with actual-size photographs and facsimile drawings. ... Read more

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The aim of this new guide is to break away from conventional approaches to Britain's heritage to include not only castles, cathedrals, abbeys and stately homes, but also steam railways, botanic gardens, literary shrines, hill figures, ships, shops, battlefields and public houses. ... Read more

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This survey of more than 1400 memorials records both high and low points in Britain's maritime history, from the Dark Ages to the present day. Entries commemorate shipping disasters, lifeboat losses, and the dead of two world wars, but there are also others celebrating the builders of great vessels, lighthouse engineers, explorers and merchants. The survey offers insights into Britain's maritime history, telling of heroism, battles, discovery, fire, piracy, murder, mayhem and even cannibalism. ... Read more

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This volume offers a guide to Cromwellian and civil war sites throughout Britain and Ireland, furnishing a topographical history of the Civil War and Commonwealth from the Parliamentary perspective. Not only does it cover the scenes of military conflict - battlefields, castles, fortified houses, churches, defended and besieged towns and cities - but also other locations connected with the leading Parliamentary soldiers, politicians, clerics and artists of the period, with an emphasis on sites connected with Oliver Cromwell and his family. An itinerary of Oliver Cromwell's movements from 1640 to 1658 appears as an appendix to the gazetteer and there is also a detailed genealogy of the Cromwells from the 16th century to the early 19th centruy. ... Read more

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On the trail of King Arthur
Much of the British landscape could serve as a movie set for timeless ghost stories. Sacred stones erected in far-off millennia stand, haunting, or lie fallen, buried in sheep-cropped grass, like the corpses of men who heaved them up. Much that we see on the land, the stone rings, earthen embankments, ditches, grave barrows, cattle pens and other traces of human settlement were old when Stonehenge was young. King Arthur may have been a fifth century warrior who led the Celtic (Welsh) speaking Britons against Anglo-Saxon invaders, but Britons tend to see him in all things ancient.

John Matthews and photographer Michael J. Stead have captured much of the mood and some of the mysticism in "King Arthur's Britain." The changing lights are here and the lowering banks of cloud that throw a sunny hilltop into a spectral fog within minutes. The original Welsh legends from the dark ages describe Arthur's Camelot as the capital of an empire which gathered up peoples speaking many languages but nevertheless lived in harmony. That was a miracle in days that spawned the Arthurian tales. Centuries later, the Plantagenet King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine brought the old Arthurian legends back into fashion: they used the old stories to demonstrate to their own polyglot peoples that all could live together peacefully.

This double legacy leaves at least two distinct sets of "Arthurian" ruins and legends imposed on the British landscape (and on the British psyche): There's the original Welsh-speaking Arthur, the Celtic hero who held back marauding Angles in the fifth or sixth centuries; and there's the medieval, twelfth century Arthur, who encouraged troubadours and minstrels (in courtly French) and seated his guests at a Round Table where all might speak and eat freely.

Text and photographs in "King Arthur's Britain" capture both these kingdoms for us. Evanescent as they surely were in their own days, these ancient societies left ruins that mark the land forever. For those who cannot travel and dream on the moors and the hilltops, or touch the sacred stones, this book is the next best thing. "King Arthur's Britain" brings the mysteries alive.

By Robert Fripp
Author, "Power of a Woman. Memoirs of a turbulent life: Eleanor of Aquitaine" ... Read more

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Journey through the myths of King Arthur and explore the beautiful countryside with which he is linked using the map references and directions provided. Over 100 colour photos illustrate the locations, as they are today, of the places associated with him, from Tintagel to Glastonbury. ... Read more

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In this innovative study, Sarah Tarlow shows how the archaeology of this period manifests a widespread and cross-cutting ethic of improvement, one of the most current concepts of eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. Theoretically informed and drawn from primary and secondary sources in a range of disciplines, the author considers agriculture and the rural environment, towns, and buildings such as working-class housing and institutions of reform. From bleach baths to window glass, rubbish pits to tea wares, the material culture of the period reflects a particular set of values and aspirations. Tarlow examines the philosophical and historical background to the notion of improvement and demonstrates how this concept is a useful lens through which to examine the material culture of later historical Britain. ... Read more

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Mysterious Britain review
The photography is excellent and evocative of a primordial unremembered world. The text that accompanies the photographs is interesting and informative. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Britain's prehistory. ... Read more

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nice book
I was a little disappointed in this book, as I had hoped for more pictures and information about each castle.It is a good brief summary of the castles.I was hoping for a more variety of photos. ... Read more

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The Daily Telegraph Castle & Ancient Monuments of England
Book arrived in less than a week. Was in very good order just as seller had described. Book is full of interesting pictures and informative descriptions of historical sites. Would use this seller again.

If You Like History...
We bought this book for our second trip to England, and we loved it!If you're into history, and like to find out-of-the-way castles, stone circles, long barrows, hillforts, etc., this book is perfect.Great color pictures throughout, and an excellent quality paperback. Noonan writes engagingly, and gives you his honest opinion of sites, and whether they're worth your time.He also provides clear directions, times, and prices.We've now ordered his similar book for Scotland, and are hoping it arrives before we leave! ... Read more

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Through specially created full-color maps, this book traces the development of British society and culture from prehistory to the 13th century. ... Read more

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Used is best way to buy!!
If I can get a gently used book, then I can afford more books.It is the only way to buy. ... Read more

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Unable to leave Russia and return to Paris at the outbreak of World War I, Marc Chagall returned to his roots in his hometown of Vitebsk. "Chagall: Love and the Stage" focuses on this turbulent yet fruitful period in Chagall's artistic development, which culminated in 1920 with a set of monumental murals painted for the State Yiddish Chamber Theater in Moscow. 80 illustrations, 60 in color. ... Read more