Download or read book The History of the Borough Castle and Barony of Alnwick written by George Tate and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lions of the North written by Ralph Percy and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the Duke of Northumberland himself, featuring his own photography. From the Norman Conquest to the present day, the story of Alnwick Castle and the Percy family has been woven into the fabric of British history. Lions of the North tells, from a unique and personal perspective, the stories of the Percy family and Alnwick Castle over a thousand years of British history. Generations of Percy barons, lords, earls and dukes played vital parts in great historical events, from the Norman Conquest to the two World Wars, and the castle, once battered by marauding armies, is now a major tourist attraction. The Duke has drawn on his unparalleled access to the Percy archives to paint this fascinating portrait of a British dynasty and its survival against the odds.

Download or read book Alnwick Castle written by James Mcdonald and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alnwick Castle is at the heart of Northumberland, England's most northerly county, a land filled with ancient market towns, golden beaches, moorland, and the remains of Hadrian's Wall. This imposing medieval castle sits by the River Aln on the edge of Alnwick town overlooking a landscape by Capability Brown. The home of the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle has belonged to the Percy family for over seven centuries. One of the largest inhabited castles in Britain, it is also visited by hundreds of thousands of people every summer. Some visitors are intrigued by the staterooms, some because the castle was used as 'Hogwarts' in the first two Harry Potter movies: very few until now have seen the private rooms. With unique access to both the castle and the Percy family archives, and the full cooperation of the Duke and Duchess, their staff, builders and interior designers, James Mcdonald takes the reader on a tour of twenty-first century castle living. He goes behind the scenes to talk to those who help make the castle function as a home for a modern family, and he visits both the extraordinary garden and the surrounding Hulne park. While describing the changes each generation of Dukes and Duchesses has bought, above all this is the story of Jane Northumberland, who since becoming Duchess in 1995 has remade the private side and has renovated the state rooms, blending English country house style with the existing Italianate grandeur. Illustrated with archive pictures and some 300 new photographs of both public and private rooms, this sumptuous book is a revealing portrait of one of the world's great castles, its magnificent recent restoration, and the people who live and work here.

Download or read book An Historical Topographical and Descriptive View of the County of Northumberland written by Eneas Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women and Gothic written by Maria Purves and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This small collection of essays explores women’s relationship with the gothic: a relationship which has, since its eighteenth-century beginnings, always been complex. These essays demonstrate some of the scope and diversity of that relationship, and much of its intensity: the ingenuity and genius employed, the anguish experienced and the risks taken, in its evolution. Genuinely representative of gothic’s flexibility and presence in everything from novels to architecture, from surrealist art to hypertext fiction, this volume brings new primary sources and topics to the reader’s attention, and will be of interest to anyone who wants to expand and challenge their understanding of how and why women engage with the gothic.

Download or read book The Country House Described written by Michael Holmes and published by Graphic Arts Center Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The aim of this index is to provide a quick reference to the literature on individual country houses in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, held in the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Over 4,000 country houses are included. The contents of 135 general books on architecture, architectural details and county histories have been indexed, as well as guides to individual country houses, catalogues of collections and sales catalogues. Only a few periodicals, apart from Country Life up to 1982, have been included."--Introduction.

Download or read book The Book of British Topography written by John Parker Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Descriptive and Historical View of Alnwick written by W. Davison and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Literature and History of the British Islands written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of British Topography A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland written by John Parker Anderson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Download or read book The Bewick Collector A Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of T and J Bewick Including Cuts in Various States for Books and Pamphlets Private Gentlemen Public Companies Exhibitions and Other Miscellaneous Purposes and Wood Blocks With an Appendix of Portraits Autographs The Whole Described from the Originals and Illustrated with a Hundred and Twelve Cuts L P written by Thomas HUGO (the Bewick Collector.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The English Counties Delineated Or a Topographical Description of England Illustrated by a Map of London and a Complete Set of County Maps written by Thomas MOULE and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memoir of the commendatore Canina and History of Alnwick castle by T L Donaldson with a description of the works now in progress Roy inst of Brit architects written by Thomas Leverton Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne Including the Borough of Gateshead written by Eneas Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The National Gazetteer written by Great Britain. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Travels & Topography.] and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Power in the Land written by Richard Lomas and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1999 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of all the earls and dukes of Northumberland, including such memorable characters as Henry Hotspur, immortalized by Shakespeare, the Wizard earl, and Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke and founder of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington.