The Inner Temple: A Community of Communities is a unique portrait of the distinctively collegiate life of the Inner Temple, in which every individual has a place, and is also a vivid expression of the spirit, traditions and continuities of the institution as a whole.

Beautifully designed and produced, the volume covers the history, architecture, treasures and estate of the Inn and the Temple Church from the coming of the lawyers in the fourteenth century to the bustling realities of the twenty-first century. Along the way, readers will encounter not just insightful accounts of the teaching and the learning of law down the centuries, but also masques, revels, feasting, poets and playwrights, Dr Johnson (a former resident), Bram Stoker (of Dracula fame) and a distinguished literary heritage extending from Geoffrey Chaucer to the creator of the immortal Rumpole of the Bailey.

From the Knights Templar who built the Church through to the modern sightseers who come to follow the trail laid out in The Da Vinci Code, the story of the inhabitants and users of the Temple is laid out in all its variety and splendour.

With over 200 images, many taken from the archives and many more specially shot for this book, The Inner Temple: A Community of Communities provides a fascinating insider's view of one of Britain's most historic institutions.

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SPECIFICATIONS: Hardback - 192 pages - 280 x 240 mm - 60,000 words - printed in colour throughout - RRP £45 - Third Millennium Publishing - November 2007

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Foreword by Master HRH The Princess Royal

Editors: Clare Rider and Val Horsler

Advisory Editor: Professor Sir John Baker is the Downing Professor of the Laws of England at the University of Cambridge. A pre-eminent legal historian, he is Literary Editor of the Seldon Society, an Honorary Queen’s Counsel and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Editorial Board: Other members include Patrick Maddams (Sub-Treasurer); Dr Clare Rider; Margaret Clay; Jacqueline Fenton and Alex Hall Taylor.