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Offers an amusing and lively tour of the forgotten episodes and the overlooked people and places of English history. From Nicholas Breakspear (the only English pope) to lost villages and forgotten inventors.

This entertaining and fact-packed guide provides all the information you'll need to travel back in time to Elizabethan London - a booming city of courtiers, cutthroats, merchants, beggars, lawyers, dramatists, apprentices and adventurers. Find out the best way to the capital and where to stay. Saunter over London Bridge, with its hundreds of shops and houses. Glimpse Her Majesty at Whitehall, Europe's largest palace. Watch the finest plays and...

Full colour introduction to Irish history for children aged 8-12.

A Traveller's History of Oxford" gives the reader a clear account of Oxford's earliest beginnings from Roman times, its Anglo-Saxon past, its importance in medieval England, the founding of the different colleges, its status as Royalist capital during the Civil War and its recovery and continuing growth right up to the 21st century.

A cultural and literary history of London, looking at the capital's development from Roman times to its modern-day role, as financial and tourist metropolis.

Richard Tames describes how London has been chronicled, described, celebrated, named, and mapped over the twenty centuries of its existence to become a city treasured even by those who have never set foot in it as a byword for innovation and diversity. This book has been written for those who, knowing London, know that it is too vast, too complex, too elusive ever to be fully known but yet would like to know it better still.

Divided into two sections, this fascinating collection presents industrialization as a total historical process involving the destruction of one world simultaneously with the creation of another.

Provides a narrative of the city and university, and a guide to visits within a short driving distance. This title features a variety of aspects ignored in other accounts - food and fashion, music and gardens, books and clubs, Cambridge contributions to poetry, theatre and sport, royal associations and links with the Arab world and China.

Delve into the past to find out about the everyday life of the ancient Greeks - where they lived, the games they played, the clothes they wore, and the people who made history. How-to projects bring the past to life: construct a miniature Parthenon, paint a dolphin fresco, make a comic mask, and learn the ancient Greek alphabet.

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Offers the reader a chronological outline of the Japan's development but also provides an invaluable introduction to its language, literature and arts, from kabuki to karaoke.

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The name of Robert Adam is equated with taste, style and elegance. As visionary in the decoration of interiors as he was ingenious in the design of exteriors, Adam was more often responsible for the renovation, alteration or completion of existing buildings than for the creation of entirely new ones.

The ten walks in this book (each starting and ending at a Tube stop) will take you to all London's most famous sights as well as to places you never knew existed -- showing them to you as you've never seen them before.

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This fact-packed guide provides all the practical advice a tourist needs to travel back four centuries to explore the booming city of London.

Step back in time to ancient Greece and discover the spectacular achievements of an adventurous civilization. Delve into everyday life to find out what the Greeks ate, where they lived and what clothes were fashionable. Find out about the gods they worshipped, the heroes they admired and the politicians who made history. A selection of 15 practical projects helps to bring the past alive - reconstruct the Parthenon, make a comic mask and learn ...

A Travellers History of London" gives a full and comprehensive historical background to the capitals past and covers the period from Londons beginnings, right up to the present day. It reveals the citys hidden treasures and forgotten places.

With everything from bonzai to zazen, this brisk story of a formidable country includes a concise history of its eras, dynasties, cuisine, wars and religions. Includes modern-day government, industry and best sites to see. Maps and line drawings.