![]() ![]() “ masterpiece of social history” Roger Lewis, Daily Mail “Tinniswood and his publishers should be congratulated for issuing this elegant, encyclopedic and entertaining history” Virginia Nicholson, The Times “ fantastically readable and endlessly fascinating book… Delicious, occasionally fantastical, revealing in ways that Downton Abbey never was.” Rachel Cooke, Observer The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars (Jonathan Cape/Basic Books, 2016) “ Behind the Throne is so much fun it’s almost a guilty pleasure” Amanda Foreman Savour it like a good gossip column” David Starkey “Both fun and scholarly, this is a back-stage, back-stairs, sometimes backside history of England that focuses on the seamy side of power, the sights you weren’t intended to see and the stories you weren’t supposed to hear. “The most in teresting and informative book on British royalty for many years” Sarah Bradford, Literary Review “It is hard not to take pride, by the end, in the eccentric and inspiring story of a great British institution that is still going strong.” Daily Telegraphīehind the Throne: A Domestic History of the Royal Household (Jonathan Cape/Basic Books, 2018) “Tinniswood captures superbly the intellectual and political ferment leading up to the society’s foundation and the achievements of its early years.” Financial Times ![]() The Royal Society and the Invention of Modern Science (Head of Zeus/Basic Books, 2019) ![]()
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