This book helps you enjoy a delightful tour of the English parkland ideal of sweeping lawns and elegant vistas created by Lancelot 'Capability Brown', who proudly professed to find 'great capability of improvement' in any park or garden.[...]
The Tudor age was a pivotal period of English history. In little more than a century, the nation was transformed from a medieval kingdom to a modern state, from an insignificant offshore island to a major world power.[...]
Branded one of the greatest villains of all time, the name Guy Fawkes is synonymous with a spectacular crime that never was.[...]
This book uncovers the colourful world of one of the nation's greatest monarchs.
For more than 1,000 years the English have been making gardens - ten centuries successfully combating the forces of nature, amidst an erratic, unpredictable climate, and in the wake of four successive ice-ages which destroyed all but the hardiest native plants. The unfolding story of our gardens clo[...]