Landmarks of Britain

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Landmarks of Britain is the history of the nation, told through the places where it actually happened. Each of the landmarks that Clive Aslet describes tells the story of a great event or figure, and the effect is a sweeping panorama of history, encompassing battlefields, cathedrals, palaces, and places linked with great events in the worlds of science, literature, architecture, religion, espionage, sport, agriculture, and industry.

• Landmarks of Britain available on May 11 2016 from Buy for 50.00
  
• ISBN bar code 9780340735107 ξ1 registered August 17 2018
  
• ISBN bar code 9780340735107 ξ2 registered May 11 2016
  
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Landmarks of Britain is the history of the nation, told through the places where it actually happened. Each of the landmarks that Clive Aslet describes tells the story of a great event or figure, and the effect is a sweeping panorama of history, encompassing battlefields, cathedrals, palaces, and places linked with great events in the worlds of science, literature, architecture, religion, espionage, sport, agriculture, and industry. Sites include those associated with the discovery of vaccination and penicillin, the splitting of the atom, the writing of the Messiah, Paradise Lost, and On the Origin of Species, the coinage of the phrase Anno Domini and of the equals sign, the smashing of the four-minute mile, and the landing places of the rats that brought the Black Death.

^ Landmarks of Britain : The Five Hundred Places That Made Our History by Clive Aslet (2005, Hardcover) ISBN 9780340735107 (revised May 2019)
^ Landmarks of Britain Buy. ISBN 9780340735107 (revised May 2016)