Wanstead House

Author : Hannah Armstrong
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802070788
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wanstead House written by Hannah Armstrong and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In c.1713, Sir Richard Child, heir to a mercantile fortune, commissioned Colen Campbell, to build Wanstead House, ‘one of the noblest houses, not only in England, but in Europe’. Campbell’s innovative classical façade was widely influential and sowed the seeds for English Palladianism. Its opulent interior by William Kent was equal to Kensington Palace and its extensive gardens were attributed to leading landscape designers George London and Humphry Repton. Wanstead’s glory days came to an end in 1822, when a major sale of its contents was arranged to pay off financial debts. Two years later the house was demolished, its building fabric dispersed far and wide. A large crater on an east London golf course is all that remains of this once ‘princely mansion’. Based on scholarly research, Wanstead House: East London’s Lost Palace provides the first illustrated history of the lost Georgian estate, charting the meteoric rise and fall of the Child dynasty. By restoring Wanstead’s reputation amongst the leading houses of the era, this book demonstrates that those lost in actuality, should by no means be lost to history.

Author : Christopher Christie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719047251
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century written by Christopher Christie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the British country house between 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. Reference is made to the whole of the British Isles and there is a discussion of their political significance.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Aberdeen Journal" Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Walford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greater London written by Edward Walford and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Walford
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Village London written by Edward Walford and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1883 under the title Greater London, and first reprinted 100 years later, this work by a Victorian historian and antiquarian records the history of the hamlets, villages and market towns that made up the metropolitan area before the urban sprawl took over.

Author : Joan Coutu
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228014972
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 written by Joan Coutu and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics has always been at the heart of the English country house, in its design and construction, as well as in the activities and experiences of those who lived in and visited these places. As Britain moved from an agrarian to an imperial economy over the course of the eighteenth century, the home mirrored the social change experienced in the public sphere. This collection focuses on the relationship between the country house and the mutable nature of British politics in the eighteenth century. Essays explore the country house as a stage for politicking, a vehicle for political advancement, a symbol of party allegiance or political values, and a setting for appropriate lifestyles. Initially the exclusive purview of the landed aristocracy, politics increasingly came to be played out in the open, augmented by the emergence of career politicians – usually untitled members of the patriciate – and men of new money, much of it created on Caribbean plantations or in the employ of the East India Company. Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 reveals how, during this period of profound change, the country house remained a constant. The country house was the definitive tangible manifestation of social standing and, for the political class, owning one became almost an imperative. In its consideration of the country house as lived and spatial experience, as an aesthetic and symbolic object, and as an economic engine, this book offers a new perspective on the complexity of political meaning embedded in the eighteenth-century country house – and on ourselves as active recipients and interpreters of its various narratives, more than two centuries later.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Home Counties Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William John Hardy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Home Counties Magazine written by William John Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Leigh (publisher.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
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Download or read book Leigh's new picture of London; or, A view of the ... British metropolis [ed. by S.C.]. written by Samuel Leigh (publisher.) and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: