King's Counsellor. Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis, Paperback - Sir Alan Lascelles

'Tommy' Lascelles was Private Secretary to four monarchs - and depicted in The Crown. These diaries reveal the inside story of the royal household ...

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Flying in the years between the two world wars was the preserve of the powerful and the wealthy, or so it was until Sir Alan Cobham's 'Flying Circu...

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Elgar's Dream of Gerontius was thought by many to be outlandishly modern at the time of its completion in 1900. Telling the story of the journey of...

The Ancient Greeks needed to deceive the Romans about the time and location of the Trojan War. At Ilios and Troy, their ancestors had destroyed the...

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David Lascelles, the 8th Earl of Harewood, embarks on a journey to reconcile a lifelong interest in Buddhism with his family's controversial inheri...

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The Planets became one of the most popular and widely recognised musical works of the 20th century. Holst himself conducted the LSO in two early re...

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The Hekes are a family in turmoil. A tyrannical, alcoholic, violent patriarch, an alcoholic, ever-trying-to-reform mother, and three degenerate chi...

Tippett’s response to the infamous Krystallnacht pogrom against the Jews in 1938 was his first major statement as an artist. Tippett took the title...

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 in G major, K525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'Serenade No. 6 in D major, K239 'Serenata Notturna'Serenade No. 9 in D major, K320...

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Kullervo recounts the story of its eponymous hero. After a lonely childhood, Kullervo grows up to become a determined warrior. He seduces a girl on...

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Verdi had retired from opera following the premiere of Aida in 1871 but was eventually persuaded by his publisher to work with the librettist Arrig...

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