English Country Houses

Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Vendome Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865651562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manor Houses of England written by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most still privately owned, these manor houses are scattered all over England, & range from simple Norman halls to picturesque Tudor homes, many dating from the reign of the Stuarts.

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Unicorn
ISBN 13 : 9781910065112
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Country Houses written by Vita Sackville-West and published by Unicorn. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is nothing quite like the English country house anywhere else in the world." So pronounces Vita Sackville-West in the beautiful essay that opens English Country Houses, a brief history of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. People may know of Sackville West's novels, or her passion for gardening, or her relationship with Virginia Woolf, but few know of her efforts to boost the morale of her beloved England during World War II. Sackville-West spent her childhood years at Knole House, a stately country home that deeply influenced her life and work. In entertaining and accessible prose she brings a deep affection to the task of boosting the morale of a country beset by war. This volume in the Britain in Pictures series is a love letter to the elegant homes of the English countryside and served as a balm to a besieged country. Writing at the height of the Blitz, as cities lay in smoldering ruins after relentless bombing, Sackville-West demonstrates a yearning for the safety provided by these exceptional buildings. We discover the architecture of the stately houses, with details conveyed in such entertaining and vivid prose that the buildings and surrounding areas come to life. The story is not just about the buildings, however, but also about the people who built and lived in them, from the most common of squires to the highest-born kings and queens. Equal parts architectural history and cultural history, this insider's view is quintessentially British. Its elegant package, with a ribbon for bookmarking, makes it the perfect gift for any Anglophile.

Author : Madge Dresser
Publisher : Historic England Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848020641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery and the British Country House written by Madge Dresser and published by Historic England Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation's heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research' organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.Lavishly illustrated and based on the latest scholarship, this wide-ranging and innovative volume provides in-depth examinations of individual houses, regional studies and critical reconsiderations of existing heritage sites, including two studies specially commissioned by English Heritage and one sponsored by the National Trust.

Author : Heather A. Clemenson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780312254148
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Country Houses and Landed Estates written by Heather A. Clemenson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Wilkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Country Houses written by William Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
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Download or read book English Country Houses written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph Dutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Country House written by Ralph Dutton and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heather Clemenson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000393801
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Country Houses and Landed Estates written by Heather Clemenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982, and based on extensive research in estates’ archives, this book outlines the changing fate of the 500 largest estates in England over the centuries. It examines estates in their heyday and looks at their changing role as they declined in the twentieth century, showing how some estates have survived and describing the differing uses to which country houses have been put.

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Download or read book English Country Houses written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Hussey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book English Country Houses Open to the Public written by Christopher Hussey and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: