Download or read book Picturing England written by Mike Evans and published by Historic England Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographers have taken pictures of England's buildings and landscapes since the invention of the medium, making images of the traces of past societies as well as photographing the new buildings around them. They have done so for many reasons: to capture the picturesque; to make a living or a souvenir; to promote or to condemn; to record what is disappearing or to reveal what is normally hidden. The formats and types of photograph they have used have been, over time, just as various, from the rare and special image, such as the first calotype, to the ubiquitous digital photograph. Collectively these photographers, both famous and anonymous, have changed the way we see and understand our environment. This book features over 300 striking photographs from the Historic England Archive, an unparalleled collection of 9 million images on England's buildings and landscapes from the 1850s to the present. Viewed collectively, its photographic collections record the changing face of England from the beginning of photography to the present day. They form a remarkable national asset, a huge memory bank that helps us understand and interpret the past, informs the present and assists with future management and appreciation of the historic environment. With informative essays and captions by the authors, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in photography, architecture, archaeology or social history.
Download or read book England s Schools written by Elain Harwood and published by Historic England. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of us, school was our first detailed experience of a building outside the homes of our parents, friends and relations. Many people react emotionally when their old school, charged with so many memories, is closed or demolished. Not all school buildings are worthy of designation, but many are major local landmarks and demonstrate an important part of our society's evolution. This book aims to raise awareness of the wide range of school buildings built in England from the Reformation to the Millennium, and discusses which buildings may be worthy of greater appreciation and preservation. It summarises the development of schools and analyses how social attitudes have been expressed in their architecture and planning. Finally, it looks at the adaptation of older schools to modern needs and new uses for schools around the country, drawing on examples of best practice from Historic Building Inspectors and Advisers.
Download or read book Pictures from English history A fireside amusement etc written by PICTURES. and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost England written by Philip H. Davies and published by Atlantic Publishing, Croxley Green. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1500 photographs reveal what it was like to live in Victorian and Edwardian England. The long awaited sequel to Lost London
Download or read book Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the British and Foreign Pictures with Biographical Notices of the Painters Indices Etc written by National Gallery (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Portrait Gallery History of the Kings and Queens of England written by David Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aerofilms written by James Crawford and published by Historic England Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aerofilms company recorded one of the most tumultuous periods of British history. This gloriously illustrated book draws on thousands of aerial photographs to present a vivid picture of a nation in the first half of the twentieth century.
Download or read book A Pictorial History of England written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Pictorial History of England written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stonehenge written by Julian C. Richards and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of England written by Simon Jenkins and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar -- from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two World Wars. But to understand their full significance we need to know the whole story. A Short History of England sheds new light on all the key individuals and events in English history by bringing them together in an enlightening account of the country's birth, rise to global prominence, and then partial eclipse. Written with flair and authority by Guardian columnist and London Times former editor Simon Jenkins, this is the definitive narrative of how today's England came to be. Concise but comprehensive, with more than a hundred color illustrations, this beautiful single-volume history will be the standard work for years to come.
Download or read book The Shortest History of England Empire and Division from the Anglo Saxons to Brexit A Retelling for Our Times Shortest History written by James Hawes and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. England—begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor—is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth. This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinvented—yet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and Parliament (starring the Magna Carta), America’s War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and England’s break from the EU. We discover: why the American colonists of 1776 believed that they were the true Anglo-Saxons how the British Empire was undermined from within why Winston Churchill said the UK could only be saved by splitting up England itself and how populism spawned Brexit and its “new elite.” The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient life—offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today’s headlines.
Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England written by Nigel Saul and published by Oxford Illustrated History. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to medieval England surveying the years from the departure of the Roman legions to the Battle of Bosworth.
Download or read book Pictorial History of England written by S. G. Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English nation or A history of England in the lives of Englishmen written by Englishmen and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pictorial History of England a History of the People as Well as of the Kingdom written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
