Seven Stars traces the meaning and origins of the Seven Stars pub sign back 1500 years to the legal codes of the Anglo-Saxons and beyond that to the mythological astronomy of the ancient Mediterranean region. It is believed that the sign of the Seven Stars
originated in the star cluster of the seven Pleiades which was considered to be a bunch of ......
Unicorn's editorial team have scoured the libraries and art galleries for this extraordinary collection of their favourite and most inspirational quotes from the creative world, both contemporary and historical.
Even in his lifetime, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley,who died at Gallipoli in 1915, was widely regarded as the most promising British physicist of his generation.Had he survived, he could well have won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1916. His death provoked in Britain a reassessment of the role that scientists might play in war. This book of essays ......
In 2018, in honor of the tricentennial of the founding of New Orleans, a groundbreaking exhibition and companion catalog celebrate the diversity of the city's earliest populations. Richly illustrated and compellingly narrated, this book reflects the kaleidoscopic array of cultures that gave rise to this most cosmopolitan of North American cities.
This ambitious project in association with The Victoria Cross Trust will be published in 8 volumes over 4 years.Each volume is divided into two parts: Part 1 - Wars, Battles & Deeds - will contain description of each war and battle or engagement which involved deeds resulting in the award of each Victoria Cross. The deeds are described within ......
The Cadogan Estate in Chelsea is one of the few remaining ancient family estates in London, covering one of the capital's most dynamic, thriving and fashionable districts.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Campaign for Body Armour, 1914-18
Inspired by a collection of letters received by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle during the First World War, Philip Abbott sets out to explore the inspirational campaign to provide body armour to British soldiers serving in the trenches. Setting the letters in the context of the terrible losses suffered during the Battle of the Somme, Abbott reveals the ......
"The period of the English Civil Wars (1642-51) was one of the most momentous in British history. Never before had the institution of monarchy been so fundamentally challenged. Never before had a monarch been executed. Truly the natural order had been turned upside down." This book provides insight and perspective about the lives, vanities, ......
