Memorials, Monuments

Whether it is Hadrian's Wall, Kendal Castle or the beautiful fells of the Lake District for thousands of years people have found a certain eleganc...

Londons many cemeteries, churches and graveyards are the last resting places of a multitude of important people from many different walks of life. ...

The most prodigious architectural creation of the Middle Ages. By what miracle do these dizzy piled-up strucutres stay I equilibrium, despite the...

Designed to assist the adventurous visitor to the region, the book is also an armchair traveler's introduction to many of the most historic and vis...

Right next to the Colosseum in Rome stands the Arch of Constantine. Completed AD 312 - 315, it was built to celebrate ten years of the Emperor Cons...

Monumental cares rethinks monument debates, site specificity and art activism in light of problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, su...

The Tekkieh Moaven is a significant religious monument in Kermanshah and one of the most important national memorials in Iran. Following the buildi...

Available in a limited print run of 1,000 setsthe stunning nine-volume presentation of the incredible Buddhist caves at Dunhuang in northwestern Ch...

A beautifully illustrated study of the caves at Dunhuang, exploring how this important Buddhist site has been visualized from its creation to today...

A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and WalesDeep in the countryside, away from ...

Following Rizzoli s acclaimed series with the September 11 Memorial and Museum The Stories They Tell and No Day Shall Erase You we now are partneri...

It seems absurd to claim it, but the Battle of Passchendaele was in many ways worse than the Somme. The British offensive, also known as the Third ...

Hadrians Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale...

The streets and public spaces of London are rich with statues and monuments commemorating the citys great figures and events from Nelsons Column i...

In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribu...

A glorious illustrated history of sixteen of the world's greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the extraordinary stories of the people who built the...

When Greyfriars Graveyard opened in Edinburgh in the sixteenth century, built on the site of a Franciscan monastery on the edge of the Old Town bel...

In medieval Edinburgh the dead were buried in the citys churchyards, with internment in the church reserved for the wealthy, but in the post-Reform...

BLACK PLAQUES are not to be found proudly mounted on a wall - and for good reason. What with their commemoration of a brutal execution outside West...