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This authoritative and fully illustrated book is the first to be devoted to the Houses of Parliament - also known as the Palace of Westminster - for over twenty years, offering new insight into Britain's most famous and celebrated symbol of state. Spanning the medieval period to the present day, The Houses of Parliament: History, Art, Architecture is a fresh innovative study of this complex Victorian building, placing it within a broad historical, political, and cultural context.<br> <br> Sixteen authors, all well-known experts in their fields, consider far-ranging and often unfamiliar aspects of the palace and its relationship with neighboring Westminster Abbey , from its eleventh-century origins through to the extensive reconstruction of the House of Commons following bomb damage in the Second World War. Key events in the palace's history are brought vividly to life: the high pageantry and low comedy of George IV's Gothic Revival coronation; the original medieval buildings' destruction by fire in 1834; and the subsequent - and controversial - rebuilding by the architectural and design geniuses Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, resulting in the iconic monument so
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- Author
- David Cannadine; William Vaughan; Steven Parissien; Jacqueline Riding
- Publisher
- Merrell : St. Martin's Press, [distributor for USA and Canada
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781858941127
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Art, History, Arts
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (15 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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