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Houses of Power
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Dr Simon Thurley is a leading architectural historian, a regular broadcaster on television and radio, and was until 2015 the Chief Executive of English Heritage, the government's principal advisor on the historic environment in England. Previous posts have included Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces and Director of the Museum of London. Simon is the author of a number of books on architectural history, including The Royal Palaces of Tudor England; Whitehall Palace and Hampton Court. In 2013 he published a major history of English architecture for HarperCollins, The Building of England. Simon is married to the historian Anna Keay and lives in Norfolk.
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"An absorbing account of the lives of these royal houses. It is a journey not just from palace to hunting lodge to castle, but into the small and poignant details of domestic existence." * Times Literary Supplement * "This is a landmark book. Nobody interested in Tudor England can afford not to own a copy of this gateway into a lost world ... compulsively readable." -- Sir Roy Strong * Country Life * "Unrivalled architectural expertise... Superb writing...A triumph: a masterly collective biography of [Tudor Royal] buildings, replete with insights into their owners' private lives and into politics, diplomacy and court etiquette." * Literary Review * "[Simon Thurley] certainly loves his subject. An enthusiasm that steadily bubbles forth from Houses of Power....Thurley's reconstruction of these rooms is fascinating, but even more so is his description of what went on in them ... A suitably opulent book" -- Gerard DeGrout * The Times * "Excellent... Fresh, learned, readable and full of life, [Houses of Power] is the Tudors At Home, as you've never seen them before." -- Dan Jones * Mail on Sunday *
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. What was it like to live as a royal Tudor? Why were their residences built as they were and what went on inside their walls? Who slept where and with who? Who chose the furnishings? And what were their passions? The Tudors ruled through the day, throughout the night, in the bath, in bed and in the saddle. Their palaces were genuine power houses - the nerve-centre of military operations, the boardroom for all executive decisions and the core of international politics. Houses of Power is the result of Simon Thurley's thirty years of research, picking through architectural digs, and examining financial accounts, original plans and drawings to reconstruct the great Tudor houses and understand how these monarchs shaped their lives. Far more than simply an architectural history - a study of private life as well as politics, diplomacy and court - it gives an entirely new and remarkable insight into the Tudor world. Includes: Baynards Castle Bridewell Palace Coldharbour Durham Place Eltham Palace Friars churches at Greenwich and Richmond Kennington Palace Blackfriars Palace of Westminster Somerset Place St Jamess Palace St Pauls Suffolk Place Tower of London Westminster Abbey Whitehall Palace (formerly York Place) Dartford Priory Enfield Esher Place Hampton Court Palace Hanworth House Havering-atte-Bower Nonsuch Palace Oatlands Palace Richmond Palace Syon Monastery Wanstead House Windsor Castle Woking Palace Abingdon Abbey (now in Oxfordshire) Reading Abbey Ditton House Basing House Birling House Cobham Hall Dover Castle Knole Leeds Castle Otford Rochester Priory St Augustines Priory, Canterbury Westenhanger Castle Woodstock Palace Guildford Friary Woking House Cowdray House Petworth House Beaulieu (formerly New Hall) Ingatestone Hall Ruckholt Manor Ewelme Manor Thornbury Castle Wolfhall Loughborough Hall Burghley House Collyweston House Fotheringay Castle Grafton Manor Nottingham Castle Ludlow Castle Kenilworth Castle Royal House, Langley Tickenhill Manor Ampthill House Ashridge Priory Berkhampstead Castle Hatfield House Hitchin Hundson House Manor of the More Theobalds House Tyttenhanger House Kenninghall Place Hengrave Hall Newcastle Warkworth Castle Hull Manor Middleham Castle Pontefract Castle York Abbey. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR008778833
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