Holkham: The Social, Architectural and Landscape History of a Great English Country House
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Holkham Hall is a masterpiece of eighteenth-century Palladian architecture set in a large walled...
Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages
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Why exactly is Paul Revere revered? Was the lightbulb really Thomas Edison's bright idea? *...
Crime's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary But True Tales from Over Five Centuries of Legal History
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Author Peter Seddon gives life to over five centuries of bizarre, macabre and sometimes hilarious...
A Historical Dictionary of Indian Food
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Outside India Indian food is popular the world over, from Tokyo to Telford and from Canberra to...
Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local
Alina Payne, Gulru Necipoglu, Michele Bacci and Anna Contadini
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This lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages...
The Image of Restoration Science: The Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667)
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This book is about a single image - the frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society...