Landmarks of Britain: The Five Hundred Places That Made Our History - Softcover

Aslet, Clive

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9780340735114: Landmarks of Britain: The Five Hundred Places That Made Our History

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ISBN 10: 0340735112 ISBN 13: 9780340735114

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006

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Landmarks of Britain is the history of the nation, told through the places where it actually happened. Each of the landmarks that Clive Aslet describes tells the story of a great event or figure, and the effect is a sweeping panorama of history, encompassing battlefields, cathedrals, palaces, and places linked with great events in the worlds of science, literature, architecture, religion, espionage, sport, agriculture, and industry. Sites include those associated with the discovery of vaccination and penicillin, the splitting of the atom, the writing of the Messiah, Paradise Lost, and On the Origin of Species, the coinage of the phrase "Anno Domini" and of the equals sign, the smashing of the four-minute mile, and the landing places of the rats that brought the Black Death.

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Clive Aslet is the award-winning editor of Country Life, and an acknowledged authority on British architecture and life. His books include ANYONE FOR ENGLAND? and INSIDE THE HOUSE OF LORDS and have studied our national identity. He regularly appears on current affairs programmes such as Newsnight. Clive lives in London with his wife and three young children.

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Five hundred sites where the great events in British history were played out, from the Roman Baths to the Millennium Bridge.

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