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A Little History of the English Country Church by Roy Strong
$55.00 AUD
Category: History and Politics
In this fascinating book Roy Strong tells the dramatic story of the English parish church, from the first temporary buildings erected in Anglo-Saxon times to its uncertain future in the twenty-first century. Starting with the Christianisation of Britain by missionaries from Ireland and Rome, he takes us ...Show more
Laskett, the by Roy Strong
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This is a portrait of a marriage expressed through the vision and mystery of creating a garden. Neither the author, Roy Strong, nor his wife, the designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, had foreseen this when they eloped and married in 1971. More than thirty years later they found themselves surrounded by the la ...Show more
Roy Strong: Self-Portrait as a Young Man by Sir Roy Strong
$68.95 AUD
Category: Biography
For nearly half a century, Sir Roy Strong has enjoyed a high public profile in the arts world in Britain. Yet remarkably little is known about his life before the Swinging Sixties when he burst upon the scene as the revolutionary trendy young director of the National Portrait Gallery, aged thirty-one. I ...Show more
Types and Shadows: Diaries 2004-2015 by Roy Strong
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The third volume of Roy Strong's diaries cover the years 2004 to 2015. In January 2004 Strong was in a state of deep grief following the death of his wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman, three months earlier. Yet the diaries written in this first year following Julia's death offer a picture of determination and ...Show more
Visions of England by Roy Strong
$45.00 AUD
Category: History and Politics
What does it mean to be English? For centuries, Englishness was synonymous with Britishness, informed first by the political dominance of the English monarchs over the British Isles - reaching its apogee in the rule of Elizabeth I - and later by the island's imperial might and expansion. But alongside t ...Show more
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