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  • The Making of Handel's Messiah The Making of Handel's Messiah

    The Making of Handel's Messiah

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    The first performance of Handel’s 'Messiah' in Dublin in 1742 is now legendary. Gentlemen were asked to leave their swords at home and ladies to come without hoops in their skirts in order to fit more people into the audience. Why then, did this now...
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  • The Queen's Coronation Book by James Wilkinson The Queen's Coronation Book by James Wilkinson

    The Queen's Coronation by James Wilkinson

    £3.95
    The Queen’s Coronation, on 2 June 1953, should have been celebrated in blazing sunshine. Instead, it was one of the coldest June days in years, and it poured with rain. The enthusiasm of the hundreds of thousands of people who lined the streets waiting...
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  • The Lost Art of Scripture

    The Lost Art of Scripture

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    In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to incite violence, hatred and division. The Quran, the Torah and the Bible are often employed selectively to underwrite arbitrary and subjective...
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    The Funeral Achievements of Henry V at Westminster Abbey The Funeral Achievements of Henry V at Westminster Abbey
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    The Funeral Achievements of Henry V at Westminster Abbey

    £80.00
    Ground-breaking new studies of Henry V's chapel, tomb and funeral service have new revelations and insights into the time.Before Henry V set out in 1415 on the campaign which culminated in victory at Agincourt, he made a will laying down precise...
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  • The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries Guide The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries Guide

    The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries Guide

    £9.95
    The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries, which opened in June 2018, are an exciting new development in the history of Westminster Abbey.  The eastern triforium, which runs around the Abbey's interior 16 metres above floor level, has been transformed into...
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  • Candles in the Dark

    Candles in the Dark

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    'As we contemplate the coming months, not knowing when we can breathe again, it's worth thinking about how already the foundations have been laid for whatever new opportunities God has for us on the far side of this crisis.'Rowan Williams offers these...
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  • 111 Churches in London that you Shouldn't Miss

    111 Churches in London that you Shouldn't Miss

    £12.99
    111 Churches in London That You Shouldn't Miss takes you through the doors of 111 rarely visited churches, but which, with the help of this informative guide are now on the map! With their spires, towers, columns and capitals, vaults and arches, carvings...
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  • Elizabethans

    Elizabethans

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    Who made modern Britain the country it is today? How do we sum up the kind of people we are? What does it mean to be the new Elizabethans? In this wonderfully told history, spanning back to when Queen Elizabeth became queen in 1953, Andrew Marr traces...
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  • The Making Of The Tudor Dynasty

    The Making Of The Tudor Dynasty

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    Tudor monarchs have consistently attracted more popular and scholarly attention than any other royal dynasty in British history. The peculiar origins of the Tudor family and the improbable saga of their rise and fall and rise again in the centuries...
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  • Black and British: A Forgotten History

    Black and British: A Forgotten History

    £12.99
    Please note: this particular item is available on a pre-order basis therefore it is not available to collect in store. In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the...
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  • The Queen's Window by David Hockney Book The Queen's Window by David Hockney Book

    The Queen's Window by David Hockney Book

    £4.95
    The Queen’s Window was designed by renowned artist David Hockney for Westminster Abbey and unveiled in autumn 2018. In an extended conversation between Hockney and fellow-artist Tacita Dean recorded specifically for this publication, the artist reflects...
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  • The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey Vol. 1 & 2 The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey Vol. 1 & 2

    The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey Vol. 1 & 2

    £65.00
    Westminster Abbey contains the only surviving medieval Cosmatesque mosaics outside Italy. They comprise: the ‘Great Pavement’ in the sanctuary; the pavement around the shrine of Edward the Confessor; the saint’s tomb and shrine; Henry III’s tomb; the...
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