Adrian Tinniswood, Author . Oxford Univ. $35 (504p) ISBN 978-0-19-514989-0
British architectural historian Tinniswood (The National Trust Historic Houses Handbook) offers a life of Britain's great architect Wren (1632–1723), whose most famous masterpiece is St Paul's Cathedral in London, site of Prince...
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Adrian Tinniswood, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (331p) ISBN 978-1-57322-244-0
In this history of the 1666 fire that destroyed almost the entire city of London, Tinniswood focuses on the political, legal and cultural significance of the catastrophe. He describes the blaze through the written accounts of both London's...
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Adrian Tinniswood, Author . Riverhead $29.95 (569p) ISBN 978-1-59448-948-8
Drawing on a vast correspondence of more than 30,000 letters, British historian Tinniswood (By Permission of Heaven
) tells the story of a remarkable elite English family in the 17th century. The Verneys' lives intersected with many historic...
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Adrian Tinniswood, Riverhead, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-59448-774-3
Forget the pirates of the Caribbean: their Old World brethren were an altogether more colorful and fearsome lot, according to this swashbuckling study. Historian Tinniswood (The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century...
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Adrian Tinniswood. Basic, $32 (344p) ISBN 978-0-465-04898-4
English writer and historian Tinniswood (The Rainborowes) elegantly explores the glamorous interwar age of English rural getaways, revealing the not-so-secret affairs of the inhabitants and the reinterpretation of architectural and interior design (p
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Adrian Tinniswood. Basic, $32 (416p) ISBN 978-0-465-09402-8
Beginning with Elizabeth I and ending with her reigning namesake, this well-researched, often entertaining narrative illuminates the domestic army of little-known names that manages palatial daily duties and orchestrates elaborate special occasions.
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Adrian Tinniswood. Basic, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-5416-7358-8
Tinniswood (The Long Weekend), a University of Buckingham history research fellow, devotes this modest, accessible chronicle to the Royal Society of London and its role in developing modern scientific study. Writing in a conversational tone, he...
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Adrian Tinniswood. Basic, $32 (432p) ISBN 978-1-5416-1798-8
In this illuminating follow-up to The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918–1939, University of Buckingham historian Tinniswood chronicles the “crisis” that engulfed England’s rural mansions in the middle of the 20th century, as...
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