Historic England: Leicester
Title | Historic England: Leicester PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Butt |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2018-08-15 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1445683636 |
This illustrated history portrays one of England’s finest cities - Leicester. Using photographs taken from the unique Historic England Archive.
Leicester Engineering Building
Title | Leicester Engineering Building PDF eBook |
Author | John McKean |
Publisher | Phaidon Press |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780714831541 |
James Stirling was one of the most influential architects of the late twentieth century. He established his world-wide reputation in the 1960s while still in partnership with James Gowan, and his strong personal style is first seen to emerge in the extraordinary Leicester University Engineering Building, the last project to be completed by the partnership. Its slender, almost transparent, tower rises above the projecting forms of its wedge-shaped auditoria. This constructivist inspired ensemble is juxtaposed with the industrial toughness of the engineering workshops whose saw-tooth factory glazing cuts across its roof at an acute angle, setting up a powerful and contradictory geometry.
The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester
Title | The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester PDF eBook |
Author | John Nichols |
Publisher | |
Pages | 848 |
Release | 1815 |
Genre | Leicestershire (England) |
ISBN |
A walk through Leicester [By S. Watts].
Title | A walk through Leicester [By S. Watts]. PDF eBook |
Author | Susannah Watts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1804 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Elizabeth and Leicester
Title | Elizabeth and Leicester PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Gristwood |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2008-10-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780143114499 |
View our feature on Sarah Gristwood’s Elizabeth & Leicester.Though the story has been told on film—and whispered in historic gossip—this is the first book in almost fifty years to solely explore the great queen’s attachment to her beloved Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester. Fueled by scandal and intrigue, their relationship set the explosive connection between public and private life in sixteenth-century England in bold relief. Why did they never marry? How much of what seemed a passionate obsession was actually political convenience? Elizabeth and Leicester reignites this 400- year-old love story in a book for anyone interested in Elizabethan literature.
Leicestershire and Rutland
Title | Leicestershire and Rutland PDF eBook |
Author | Nikolaus Pevsner |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 648 |
Release | 1985-03-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780300096187 |
Pevsner wrote that "Leicestershire is not a county of extremes" and agreed that "no other county in England surpasses Rutland for unspoiled quiet charm". The large and the small Midland counties possess a varied and rewarding range of buildings. Church architecture encompasses the classical Normanton, preserved in remote isolation from the flood of Rutland Water, to Market Harborough with its elegant medieval steeple, and a fine group of Victorian churches in Leicester. The major country houses include Belvoir Castle, Staunton Harold and Burley-on-the-Hill, while the more modest homes of the late nineteenth century include notable work by Ernest Gimson, Voysey and a garden city at Leicester by Parker & Unwin. Leicestershire also possesses fine modern buildings, from its architecturally progressive schools to the justly renowned buildings of Leicester University, dominated by Stirling & Gowan's Engineering Building.
Historic England: Central London
Title | Historic England: Central London PDF eBook |
Author | Simon McNeill-Ritchie |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2018-11-15 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1445681765 |
This illustrated history portrays the very heart of our great capital city - Central London. Using photographs taken from the unique Historic England Archive.