History

  • FEW TICKETS REMAINING Dan Cruickshank uncovers the secret history of six of Britain’s greatest private country houses, none of which are open to the public. They span the architectural history of the country house from the disarming Elizabethan charm of...0April 26, 2012

    Dan Cruikshank

    FEW TICKETS REMAINING Dan Cruickshank uncovers the secret history of six of Britain’s greatest private country houses, none of which are open to the public. They span the architectural history of the country house from the disarming Elizabethan charm of…

  • RETURNS ONLY – THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgewater Canal to Blackpool Pier, from Stonehenge to the Gherkin, the historian tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic...0April 26, 2012

    John Julius Norwich

    RETURNS ONLY – THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgewater Canal to Blackpool Pier, from Stonehenge to the Gherkin, the historian tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic…

  • Marc Morris, author of the bestselling biography of Edward I, A Great and Terrible King, approaches the Conquest with the same passion, verve, and scrupulous concern for historical accuracy. This is the definitive account for our times of an extraordinary...0April 26, 2012

    Marc Morris

    Marc Morris, author of the bestselling biography of Edward I, A Great and Terrible King, approaches the Conquest with the same passion, verve, and scrupulous concern for historical accuracy. This is the definitive account for our times of an extraordinary…

  • In 1908 London hosted its first Olympic Games by chance. Rome, the chosen host city, pulled out after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in spring 1906.The crisis threatened to bring Baron de Coubertin’s cherishedrevival of the Olympic Movement to an...0April 26, 2012

    Rebecca Jenkins

    In 1908 London hosted its first Olympic Games by chance. Rome, the chosen host city, pulled out after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in spring 1906.The crisis threatened to bring Baron de Coubertin’s cherishedrevival of the Olympic Movement to an…

  • FEW TICKETS REMAINING Matilda of Flanders was the diminutive yet formidable wife of William the Conqueror. As Duchess of Normandy and Queen of England, she broke the mould of female consorts and carved out a position of power in a...0April 26, 2012

    Tracy Borman

    FEW TICKETS REMAINING Matilda of Flanders was the diminutive yet formidable wife of William the Conqueror. As Duchess of Normandy and Queen of England, she broke the mould of female consorts and carved out a position of power in a…