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Funny, indiscreet, candid, touching and sharply observed, this second compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers his life during hi...
In eight illuminating chapters we have the history of the Eternal City-Ancient Roman, Early Christian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo-th...
Five Great Patrons of Eighteenth-century Art
This work offers an insight into the tastes and manners of an age which produced some of England's finest architecture. The five earls featured flouri...
During the 1930s and 1940s, a charming, clever and sharply observant young man named James Lees-Milne visited the owners of country houses all over En...
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Diaries, 1979-1981
The eighth volume of James Lees-Milne's acclaimed diaries is unlike its predecessors, in that it shows Lees-Milne developing an overwhelming tendresse...
The diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English ...
A Biography, 1930-1968
This second volume of James Lees-Milne's masterly biography opens at a turning point in Harold Nicolson's life: he was miserable at the Evening Standa...
Ancestral Voices and Prophesying Peace
A Biography, 1886-1929
British Royalty in Exile
The story of Bonnie Prince Charlie is a romantic episode in British history and has been the subject of innumerable accounts. Less familiar, but equal...
A Biography
A Biography, 1818-1929
'An absorbing portrait of an extinct type of Englishman.' Sunday Times 'A scintillating, pointillist portrait of the beginnings of a career and a marr...
The Life of Reginald, 2nd Viscount Esher
A biography of Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher who for nearly 30 years exerted an incredible influence on British royalty and politics. The intimat...
Diaries, 1973-1974
Part of a series of eight volumes of diaries kept by James Lees-Milne, this text covers the years from 1973-74 and offers a fastidious, penetrating an...
Country House Donors and the National Trust
In 1936, James Lees-Milne became Country Houses secretary of the infant National Trust. Already fired with compassion for ancient architecture, 'so vu...
Diaries 1946-1947
A Biography, Vol. I 1886-1929
A Property of the National Trust
A Life of William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, 1790-1858
Diaries, 1953-1972
Diaries, 1993-1997
The twelfth and final volume of James Lees-Milne's magnificent diary covers the last five years of his life, until a few weeks before his death at the...
Diaries, 1975-1978
This volume of James Lees-Milne's diaries includes accounts of dinner spent with Winston Churchill, conversations with Anthony Powell and other surpri...
Diaries, 1988-1992
In this penultimate volume, James Lees-Milne is as engaging and readable as ever; his sharpness and wit are undiminished as he forges into his eightie...
Diaries, 1982-1984
In the ninth volume of James Lees-Milne's diaries, the ardour towards their eventual editor M, has cooled to a more durable tenderness. There is no ch...
Diaries, 1985-1987
Those who know him already will be prepared for the unexpected, and they will not be disappointed. Those new to him may be surprised to find - along w...