The Long Weekend

Informationen zum Autor Adrian Tinniswood is professorial research fellow in history at the University of Buckingham, adjunct professor of history at Maynooth University and the author of many books on British history, including the Sunday Times bestseller The Long Weekend . He was awarded an OBE for services to heritage, and lives in the west of Ireland. Klappentext Adrian Tinniswood OBE FSA is the author of fifteen books on social and architectural history, including Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the Royal Household ; The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars , a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller; His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren and The Verneys: a True Story of Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England , which was shortlisted for the BBC/Samuel Johnson Prize. He has worked with a number of heritage organisations including the Heritage Lottery Fund and the National Trust, and is currently Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Buckingham and Visiting Fellow in Heritage and History at Bath Spa University. Zusammenfassung There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. The author uncovers the truth about them.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Tinniswood
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780099592853
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959285-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 235 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); England, European History, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Diaries, letters and journals, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)