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  • A Biographical Dictionary of 1,000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts

    by Dr Sara Gray ...
    This comprehensive volume presents the biographies of 1,000 women who were active in the British decorative arts over the last few centuries. Some of these women are known today, some are not, yet all made valuable contributions in areas such as stained glass, metalwork, pottery, woodcarving, illustration, bookbinding and decoration, sculpture, decorative embroidery, decorative jewellery, and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Long Weekend

    Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939

    by Adrian Tinniswood ...
    From an acclaimed social and architectural historian, the tumultuous, scandalous, glitzy, and glamorous history of English country houses and high society during the interwar periodAs WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • I Never Knew That About London

    by Christopher Winn ...
    Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a captivating journey around London to discover the unknown tales of our capital's history. Travelling through the villages and districts that make up the world's most dynamic metropolis I Never Knew That About London unearths the hidden gems of legends, firsts, inventions, adventures and birthplaces that shape the city's compelling, and at times, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Power and the Glory

    Life in the English Country House Before the Great War

    by Adrian Tinniswood ...
    A spirited history of the English country house in its golden ageFor generations, the great palaces of Britain were home to living histories, noble families that had reigned for centuries. But by the end of the nineteenth century, members of elite society found themselves, for the first time, in the company of arrivistes. Their new neighbors—from chorus girls to millionaire greengrocers to guano ... Read more

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  • The Last Pre-Raphaelite

    Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination

    by Fiona MacCarthy ...
    Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian and modern art.'A triumph of biographical art.' Independent'Magnificent.' Guardian'Rarely are biographies both as authoritative and engaging as this.' Literary ReviewThe angels on our ... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Diaries, 1984-1997

    by James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch ...
    This final compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers the last fourteen years of his life, when he was living on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate. Old age and infirmity have not dimmed his sharpness, literary skill or interest in the world around him, and his reflection on people, places and experiences are as vivid as ever. A tour of the Cotsworlds makes him ruefully ... Read more

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  • The Book Lover's Guide to London

    by Sarah Milne ...
    "Brings literature lovers on a journey through London, from Chaucer in the fourteenth century to present day . . . as diverse as the city itself." — British Heritage TravelMany of the greatest names in literature have visited or made their home in the colorful and diverse metropolis of London. From Charles Dickens to George Orwell, Virginia Woolf to Bernadine Evaristo, London's writers have ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Gainsborough (Illustrated)

    by Thomas Gainsborough, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 28 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough was the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the eighteenth century. Credited as a founder of the British landscape school, Gainsborough sought to change the artistic tastes of his day, establishing an original and innovative approach to high art. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Where Are the Women?

    A Guide To An Imagined Scotland

    by Sara Sheridan ...
    For most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built environment after themselves. Now is the time to look unflinchingly at our heritage and bring those women who have been ignored to light.Where Are The Women? They’ve been here all along…Can you imagine a different Scotland, a Scotland where women are commemorated in statues and streets and ... Read more

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  • Noble Ambitions

    The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II

    by Adrian Tinniswood ...
    A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic valuesAs the sun set slowly on the British Empire, its mansions fell and rose. Ancient families were reduced to demolishing the parts of their stately homes they could no longer afford, dukes and duchesses desperately clung to their ancestral seats, and a new class of homeowners bought ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The House Party

    A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend

    by Adrian Tinniswood ...
    A delightful journey through the glamorous story of the English country house party by the bestselling historian.Croquet. Parlour games. Cocktails. Welcome to a glorious journey through the golden age of the country house party - and you are invited.Our host, celebrated historian Adrian Tinniswood, traces the evolution of this quintessentially Br... ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • I Never Knew That About England

    by Christopher Winn ...
    The inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is the ultimate journey around England. Christopher Winn takes us to each county, to see where history happened, where people and ideas were born, where dreams took flight and where men and women now rest from their labours. To tread in their footsteps, to touch and experience some of what inspired and moved them is to capture ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD