Product Description: For more than 170 years, Burke's Landed Gentry has been an invaluable genealogical guide to notable families and their histories throughout the British Isles. Burke's Irish Family Records details the descendents of some 500 important Irish families, whether living in Ireland or settled abroad...read more

Portrays the architecture and interior design of a variety of mansions, castles, and country homes in Ireland

This is the autobiography of a man described as 'an institution, one of the great English eccentrics of our time', as well as being immortalized by Private Eye as 'Hugh Massivesnob'.

Product Description: This is a compilation of the very best of the five best-selling volumes of Daily Telegraph obituaries. The foibles and eccentricities of the dead are evoked as a labour of love, while the reader is introduced to alluring strangers and and a world of elegance and romance.

Tours twenty-six of Scotland's most fantastic castles and manors, including Manderston, Dunrobin Castle, Glamis Castle, Cawdor, Traquair, and Hopetoun House, illustrating the grandeur, influences, and uniqueness of each estate's design and interior style. (view table of contents)

Focusing on entertainers, this book gathers together some of the, often amusing, obituaries that have appeared in 'The Daily Telegraph'. Taking 'entertainer' in its broadest sense, it covers the spectrum, from the famous - Liberace, Divine - to the weird, such as circus performers.

Published in commemoration of the Queen's sixtieth birthday, this extensively illustrated account of the life and reign of Elizabeth II goes beyond royal pomp and pageantry to reveal the personal side of the international celebrity

Describes the history and architecture of the residences of the royal families of France, Great Britain, Russia, and other European countries

Concise biographies of the thirty-seven Presidents, each followed by a factual chronology, a lineage, and a full list of descendants in the male and female lines, with eight special appendices, including royal descents and remarkable kinships