About the book: 2007 / In this place you can feel the breath of history, the traditions of the great empire are alive here, the national spirit of Great Britain is embodied here. Westminster Abbey is the heart of London, the whole country and the whole nation. This is an outstanding architectural monument and a historical building - in the broadest sense of the word. The history of the abbey, its role in the fate of England and Great Britain, the people who visited it, made history in it and were buried within its walls are told vividly and with deep knowledge of the matter by a book by a specialist in the history and culture of antiquity, Richard Jenkins.