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Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood
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Category: History
As the sun set slowly on the British Empire in the years after the Second World War, the nation's stately homes were in crisis. Tottering under the weight of rising taxes and a growing sense that they had no place in twentieth-century Britain, hundreds of ancestral piles were dismantled and demolished. ...Show more
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars by Adrian Tinniswood
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Category: History
There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand statel ...Show more
The Royal Society & the Invention of Modern Science by Adrian Tinniswood
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Category: Science | Series: The Landmark Library
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review ...Show more
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