RIBA Collections The drawings show that Seifert’s scheme was for a clutch of towers, between 15 and 20 storeys in height and similar in form and finish to the practice’s famous Nat West Tower ...
Britain has more than 3,000 stately homes, and many are open to us hoi polloi. Indeed, visiting a stately home has become a ...
A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...
The adulterous monarch married Anne - the second of six wives - after an affair with her while still with his first wife Catherine of Aragon, with whom he later parted company. Anne had been serving ...
Second, the production of books multiplied so ... provided either the standard library location symbol for the copy I read (C = Cambridge University Library; CSmH = Huntington Library; DLC = Library ...
While normally housed in a bank vault, a decision was made in 1903 to store them in a safe in the castle's Bedford Tower ... to have it placed in the castle library instead.
German air raids had killed or injured more than 1,400 residents of the city and destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes ...
This is one person's ultimate Ireland bucket list - from the surf up North to going on a ghost hunt. What would be on your ...
I dream in double denim. So, ever since thrifting an indigo denim jacket last year, I’ve been on the hunt for some low-rise ...
Within the wrought iron bands of this coffin had been placed a 16th century crusader's sword from the Tower of London collection ... bodies is in Westminster Abbey Library. Service paper from the ...
It’s not the oldest wine region in the world (Georgia claims that distinction), but it is certainly the most famous; its ...
"Paris has the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben chimes each London hour ... which houses an art gallery, the primary library branch and, most notably, a conference centre where hundreds of visitors ...