The story of life as a Tudor King or Queen, as told through houses such as the Tower of London, Whitehall, Westminster and Hampton Court. Definitive social history brought to life by the man who revolutionised English Heritage.
Dr Simon Thurley is a leading architectural historian, a regular
broadcaster on television and radio, and was until 2015 the Chief
Executive of English Heritage, the government's principal advisor
on the historic environment in England. Previous posts have
included Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces and Director of the
Museum of London.
Simon is the author of a number of books on architectural history,
including The Royal Palaces of Tudor England; Whitehall Palace and
Hampton Court. In 2013 he published a major history of English
architecture for HarperCollins, The Building of England. Simon is
married to the historian Anna Keay and lives in Norfolk.
An absorbing account of the lives of these royal houses. It is a
journey not just from palace to hunting lodge to castle, but into
the small and poignant details of domestic existence.
*Times Literary Supplement*
This is a landmark book. Nobody interested in Tudor England can
afford not to own a copy of this gateway into a lost world …
compulsively readable.
*Country Life*
Unrivalled architectural expertise... Superb writing...A triumph: a
masterly collective biography of [Tudor Royal] buildings, replete
with insights into their owners’ private lives and into politics,
diplomacy and court etiquette.
*Literary Review*
[Simon Thurley] certainly loves his subject. An enthusiasm that
steadily bubbles forth from Houses of Power....Thurley’s
reconstruction of these rooms is fascinating, but even more so is
his description of what went on in them ... A suitably opulent
book
*The Times*
Excellent... Fresh, learned, readable and full of life, [Houses of
Power] is the Tudors At Home, as you've never seen them before.
*Mail on Sunday*
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