BUILDING BRITANNIA: A HISTORY OF BRITAIN/ 25 BUILDINGS (PB)

An ambitious history of Britain told through the stories of twenty-five notable structures, from Maiden Castle in Dorset to the Gherkin. This is a chronicle of social, political and economic change seen through the prism of the built environment, and also a sequence of close studies of a series of intrinsically remarkable structures: some of them beautiful or imposing; some of them more coldly functional; all of them with rich and fascinating stories to tell.