A Portrait of England

A Portrait of England
Author: Max Hastings
Publisher: Think Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2005-12
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1845250133

Published in association with the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and introduced by its president, Sir Max Hastings, this beautifully designed coffee-table tome is a must for anyone who cherishes the British countryside. It offers a combination of stunning landscape photography and quintessentially English quotes, poetry, reminiscences, and anecdotes. With a chapter for each of England’s counties, it captures the superb peaks and tumbling waterfalls in the Lake District, the windswept moorland of the Yorkshire Dales, the dramatic cliffs at Land’s End, sunrise on the Norfolk Broads, the historic houses of Chatsworth and Burghley in the East Midlands, and many more locales.

The Portrait Miniature in England

The Portrait Miniature in England
Author: Katherine Coombs
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A highly readable account of the development of English miniature painting featuring masterpieces from the VandA's collection, which contains some of the finest examples in existence.

London Portrait of a City 1950-1962

London Portrait of a City 1950-1962
Author: Allan Hailstone
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1445636034

A fascinating selection of images, giving a unique perspective on the people and streets of London in the fifties and sixties.

All Day Long

All Day Long
Author: Joanna Biggs
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2015-04-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1782830146

Nearly all of us have to work, but how much do we really know about what other people do all day? What is it like to be a fishmonger, a sex worker or an Orthodox rabbi? Or a banker, a research scientist or a carer? How do our jobs affect our lives, beliefs and happiness? And what happens when we don't work? Joanna Biggs has travelled the country to find the answers, talking to interns and bosses, professionals and entrepreneurs, thinkers and doers. She takes us from Westminster to the Outer Hebrides, from a hospital in Wales to the industrial Midlands, introducing us to different worlds of work and the people who inhabit them. Rich with the voices of the wealthy and poor, native and immigrant, women and men of the UK in the twenty-first century, All Day Long shows us who we are through what we do.

Portrait of Britain Volume 3

Portrait of Britain Volume 3
Author: Hoxton Mini Press
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2020-09-03
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781910566770

Coming at a pivotal time in UK politics, Portrait of Britain, the British Journal of Photography's annual photography exhibition, is back for 2019 and Hoxton Mini Press will once again be producing the accompanying publication. The winning photographs from this open-call competition are selected by a panel of expert judges and will be displayed on digital billboard screens nationwide at the same time as the book's launch where they are seen by over 10 million people. These captivating portraits celebrate the diversity, culture and identity of Britain at a critical time in its history.

Inside the Victorian Home

Inside the Victorian Home
Author: Judith Flanders
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393052091

A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings creates a rooms-by-room portrait of Victorian life--from childbirth in the master bedroom to separate gender domains in the drawing room and parlor.

The English

The English
Author: Jeremy Paxman
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2007-09-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0141032952

Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are the English? And in setting about addressing this most vexing of questions, Paxman discovers answers to a few others. Like: � Why do the English actually enjoy feeling persecuted? � What is behind the English obsession with games? � How did they acquire their odd attitudes to sex and to food? � Where did they get their extraordinary capacity for hypocrisy? Covering history, attitudes to foreigners, sport, stereotypyes, language and much, much more, The English brims over with stories and anecdotes that provide a fascinating portrait of a nation and its people.

English Traits

English Traits
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1884
Genre: England
ISBN: