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Pictures from Castles by Charles Oman, K.B.E., M.A., All Souls College, Chichele Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford; Member of Parliament for the University; Hon. LL.D. (Edin) and Fellow of the British Acadamy, etc. Published by the Great Western Railway, Paddington Station, London, 1926.
Sir Charles Oman appears not to be regarded today as a good historian; see, for example, R. Allan Brown’s comments quoted at the soc.history.mediaeval web site maintained by Paul Gans.
Copyright has expired for the items included here.
Title: Castles
City: London
Date: 1926
Total items: 33
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Harlech Castle: the Main-Gate House]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/wm/big/216-HarlechCastle-TheMainGateHouse-137x200.jpg "[picture: Harlech Castle: the Main-Gate House]")
![[picture: Skenfrith Castle]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/wm/big/160-Skenfrith-Castle-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Skenfrith Castle]")
The three castles differ from each other in situation and character. Skenfrith, the smallest of the three, and the one which was least pulled about by its later owners, lies low, at a point where a lateral depression opens out into the main valley of the [river] Monnow. The builder did not take advantage of any one of several neighbouring knolls, but [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/wm/big/160-Raglan-Castle-Tower-of-Gwent-140x200.jpg "[picture: Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales]")
![[picture: A Siege of the Fifteenth Century]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/wm/big/000-Frontispiece-siege-fifteenth-century-q85-170x200.jpg "[picture: A Siege of the Fifteenth Century]")
A Siege of the Fifteenth Century
From a manuscript belonging to EdwardIV., now in Sir John Soan’s Museum. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Tretower Castle]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/wm/big/169-Tretower-castle-the-round-tower-285x200.jpg "[picture: Tretower Castle]")
The Round Tower. [$]
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