Britain's Best Historic Sites: From Prehistory to the Industrial Revolution

By Tom Quinn

"Britain's Best Historic Sites" takes the reader on a journey around this ancient land, detailing over 80 of the most important and fascinating of Britain's historic remains from 8000BC to the 20th century. From excavations of everyday life found in forgotten highways and Roman villas to areas of great spiritual significance, such as stone circles and medieval churches, as well as sites that were key to the Industrial Revolution, this book uncovers the amazing heritage that can be found across Britain. It features sites that include: Stonehenge, Wiltshire; Castlerigg Stone Circle, Cumbria; Callanish, Isle of Lewis; Fishbourne Roman Palace, West Sussex; Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland; Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset; Lindisfarne, Northumberland; Tower of London, London; Dover Castle, Kent; The George Inn, London; and, Ironbridge, Shropshire.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IMM Lifestyle Books
• Release date: Jul 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781607654131

Tom Quinn

Tom Quinn was born in Glasgow in 1948. Leaving school at 15, he worked in a shipping line office for some years, becoming involved in the North Sea Oil industry, at one stage, captaining a barge on the River Clyde. He moved to Rotterdam, the world’s largest port, in 1975 where he continued his career in shipping, making regular trips to other European cities. He returned to Scotland and became a founding partner in a small shipping and forwarding company before emigrating to Australia in 1988. In his time in Australia, as part of his work for the oil industry, he has spent time living and working in Melbourne, Darwin, and visiting Singapore, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. In 2000, he won the HarperCollins Fiction Prize for his first novel, Striking It Poor. Tom is married and now lives in Melbourne with his wife, three children and nine grandchildren. He plays the guitar, reads literature, listens to classical music, and occasionally works as a logistics consultant for a major multinational.

Reviews for Britain's Best Historic Sites

[pdcread · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Britain has rich deep veins of history reaching back thousands of years. There are so many different periods of interest that where to start is sometime baffling. In Britain's Best Historic Sites, Quinn has listed the 80 most significant or important sites and buildings that show the way that we have used and changed the landscape over the past 10,000 years. There is a little bit of everything in here; Iron Age hill forts, Roman castles and villas, cathedrals, stone circles, manor houses and even relatively modern industrial architecture.

The book has a potted history of some of the most significant sites around the UK and is accompanied by some beautiful photographs of them. Sadly with all books of this type, it suffers because of what had to be left out. The text is informative, though very brief, but it does proved good details on location and so you can discover these places for yourself.