Memorials, Monuments

This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores those immortalised in marble and bronze - and ...

'A treasure-trove of inspiration . . . [Beyond the Footpath] shows us how to make the most of the calm beauty of the natural world that surrounds u...

Why is it easy to hate and difficult to love? When societies fracture into warring tribes, we demonise those who oppose us. We tear down our statue...

Norfolk has a wealth of important archaeological sites, historic buildings and landscapes. This guide is the first to use them to tell the countys ...

Magnificent art complements an unvarnished history of the Statue of Liberty and its relationship to immigration policy in the United States through...

A beautiful, illustrated exploration of European burial sites and memorials from the First and Second World Wars The wealth of splendid photography...

Many people visit the First World War battlefields and leave disappointed, not understanding the connection to the sites they go to or their signif...

With nearly 600 years of history, involving plots, intrigue and paranormal activity, it is surprising that no one has ever before written the defin...

What are the ingredients of our great British public parks? We often think of the wider landscape of trees, grass, lakes, meandering footways, bedd...

The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the oldest museum dedicated to the Holocaust in the United States, recently opened its newly designed buil...

This book brings together in English translation for the first time the two editions of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan''s classic account of the monuments and...

Where can you find a monument to an emasculated lion made from a mysterious ceramic or the figure of an 18th century radical thinker who was hounde...

Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subje...

'A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it myself' Literary ReviewGraveyards are oases: places of escape, peace and reflection....

Despite the growing interest in Africa, the continent''s built environment is still largely unfamiliar in many parts of the world. The seven vo...

On Sunday, October 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire from thirty-two floors above a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las V...