Inner Temple - A Community of Communities
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- ISBN 9781903942666
- Weight: 1293g
- Dimensions: 254 x 290mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2007
- Publisher: Third Millennium Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Inner Temple is many things to many people: a community of highly motivated and highly trained professionals; a cluster of fine buildings in the heart of London; an honourable society with its own etiquette, rules and traditions; an institution proud of more than six centuries of history.This richly illustrated celebratory volume published on the occasion of the institution's 400th anniversary, will reflect the distinctively collegiate life in the Inner Temple through stimulating and entertaining individual memories, anecdotes and stories of members of the Society.Themes and topics in the book include: The Temple of the Knights; the coming of the lawyers; Lord Robert Dudley; the pegasus and the revels; from Chaucer to Mortimer - the Inn's literary connections; learning the law; architectural heritage' the Inn's treasures; Lord Chancellors; illustrious and notorious members; life at the Bar and in chambers; the Inner Temple and the wider world and, a day in the life of the Inn.
Editor, Val Horsler has had a career in publishing for over thirty years and was, until recently, Head of Publishing at English Heritage. She now concentrates on writing and editing books in the fields of history and heritage. Her most recent books include Girton: Thirty Years in the Life of a Cambridge College, Downe House: A Mystery and a Miracle and Eastbourne College: A Celebration. Advisory Editor: Professor Sir John Baker is the Downing Professor of the Laws of England at the University of Cambridge. A pre-eminent legal historian, he is Literary Editor of the Seldon Society, an Honorary Queen's Counsel and a Fellow of the British Academy.
