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ISBN: 9781847921604 - Visions of England Visions of England
Roy Strong

ISBN10: 1847921604  ISBN13: 9781847921604
Publisher: Vintage The Bodley Head Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 Jul 2011
Offers a vision of England that is inclusive and relevant for everybody living in the country - an appreciation of the beauty of the English countryside, a love of nature and gardening, and a celebration of the dramas of Shakespeare... More

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ISBN: 9780712665469 - The Story of Britain The Story of Britain
Roy Strong

ISBN10: 0712665463  ISBN13: 9780712665469
Publisher: Vintage Pimlico
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Oct 1998
In this masterful book, Roy Strong presents the story of Britain from the very earliest recorded Celtic times to the present day. It is a story of epic sweep and grandeur, and Strong, with his passionate enthusiasm and wide-ranging knowledge... More

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ISBN: 9781844138302 - A Little History of the English Country Church A Little History of the English Country Church
Roy Strong

ISBN10: 1844138305  ISBN13: 9781844138302
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Sep 2008
Tells the story of the English parish church, from the first temporary buildings erected in Anglo-Saxon times to its uncertain future in the twenty-first century. This book takes us on a journey - historical, social and spiritual - to explore what... More

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ISBN: 9780099540496 - Visions of England Visions of England
Roy Strong

ISBN10: 0099540495  ISBN13: 9780099540496
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Sep 2012
A major contribution to the debate about English identity that locates the roots of Englishness in the cultural imagination. What does it mean to be English? For centuries, Englishness was synonymous with Britishness, informed first by the... More

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ISBN: 9780500272145 - The Renaissance Garden in England The Renaissance Garden in England
Roy Strong

ISBN10: 050027214X  ISBN13: 9780500272145
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Apr 1984
The great formal gardens of Tudor and Stuart England are a lost art form, swept away in a wave of destruction by the later movement toward a more naturalistic landscape style. No examples survive of this era's beautifully sculpted grounds... More

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ISBN: 9780300111163 - The Artist and the Garden The Artist and the Garden
Roy Strong

ISBN10: 0300111169  ISBN13: 9780300111163
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Oct 2005
This extraordinarily beautiful book gathers together and examines for the first time a delightful collection of English gardens rendered by artists from 1540 to the early nineteenth century, many of which are unknown. Sir Roy Strong... More

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ISBN: 9780712609449 - Gloriana Gloriana
Roy Strong

ISBN10: 071260944X  ISBN13: 9780712609449
Publisher: Vintage Pimlico
Edition: 2nd New edition of Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 May 2003
To examine the portraits of Elizabeth I is to witness the creation of the legend of the Virgin Queen, of Gloriana and her burgeoning empire. The history of the portraiture is that of the deliberate manufacture of an image powerful enough to hold... More

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ISBN: 9780712664950 - The Spirit of Britain The Spirit of Britain
Roy Strong

ISBN10: 0712664955  ISBN13: 9780712664950
Publisher: Vintage Pimlico
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Oct 2000
"The Spirit of Britain" is a masterly survey of the country' s arts-- literature, music, poetry, painting, architecture, theater, and all the related subjects that, over the centuries, have given British intellectual and cultural life its unique... More

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ISBN: 9780712664813 - The Cult of Elizabeth The Cult of Elizabeth
Roy Strong

ISBN10: 0712664815  ISBN13: 9780712664813
Publisher: Vintage Pimlico
Edition: New ed of 2 Revised ed
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Nov 1999
No other woman in world history has been of such compulsive interest as Elizabeth Tudor. While the rest of the 16th-century Europe was subject to the bloodshed of religious war, Tudor peace brought England its great flowering of the arts. More

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ISBN: 9780712665094 - Henry, Prince of Wales Henry, Prince of Wales
Roy Strong

ISBN10: 0712665099  ISBN13: 9780712665094
Publisher: Vintage Pimlico
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 May 2000
When 18 year old Henry, Prince of Wales, died in November 1612, hopes for a protestant crusade against Catholic Spain were dashed. This study of Henry, using original documents and sources, tells of a great renaissance tragically cut short. More