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Lost Country Houses of Norfolk
Author | : Tom Williamson,Ivan Ringwood,Sarah Spooner |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1783270721 |
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Norfolk is a county sadly rich in lost country houses; this account and gazetteer offer a comprehensive account of them.
Lost Country Houses of Norfolk
Author | : Tom Williamson,Ivan Ringwood,Sarah Spooner |
Publsiher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2022-06-24 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1783276991 |
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Norfolk is a county sadly rich in "lost" country houses; this account and gazetteer offer a comprehensive account of them.
Lost Mansions
Author | : J. Raven |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2015-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137520777 |
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This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century. Seven lively essays debate our understanding of what is meant by loss and how it relates to popular conceptions of the great house.
The British Country House Revival
Author | : Ben Cowell |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2024-05-21 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781837650583 |
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Fifty years ago, the future for country houses in Britain looked bleak. The Victoria & Albert Museum's exhibition The Destruction of the Country House, which opened in October 1974, charted the loss of over a thousand country houses in the preceding century. The makers of the exhibition warned that history could be "about to repeat itself" because of the threats besetting mansion properties, principally from higher taxation. Houses faced the prospect of having to be stripped of their collections and sold for use as offices, hotels, or hospitals, with their parks and gardens turned into golf clubs. Government might afford to save just a handful of the most significant of these places, working in tandem with charities such as the National Trust. The rest would be consigned to history. This book traces the history of country houses in Britain, from the Destruction exhibition to the present day. The wave of country house losses anticipated in 1974 never actually happened. Instead, over the next five decades Britain's country houses experienced a renaissance. Fiscal rules changed in the mid-1970s to make it easier for owners to hold on to their assets. Economic improvements in the 1980s and 1990s allowed many houses and estates to develop profitable commercial businesses. All of this was achieved only after dedicated campaigning from heritage organisations in support of the country house cause. The book argues that a new accord is needed today, to recognise and value the ongoing, if increasingly contested, contribution of country houses to British life and culture in the twenty-first century.
Lost Country Houses of Derbyshire
Author | : Maxwell Craven |
Publsiher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2024-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781398111431 |
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A fascinating description of the lost country houses of Derbyshire. This fascinating picture of an important but often forgotten part of the history of Derbyshire over the centuries will be of interest to all those who live in the county or know it well.
Politics and the English Country House 1688 1800
Author | : Joan Coutu,Jon Stobart,Peter N. Lindfield |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2023-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780228014973 |
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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.
Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture
Author | : Samantha Matthews |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-09-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192599858 |
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'Will you write in my album?' Many Romantic poets were asked this question by women who collected contributions in their manuscript books. Those who obliged included Byron, Scott, Wordsworth, and Lamb, but also Felicia Hemans, Amelia Opie, and Sara Coleridge. Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture presents the first critical and cultural history of this forgotten phenomenon. It asks a series of questions. Where did 1820s 'albo-mania' come from, and why was it satirized as a women's 'mania'? What was the relation between visitors' books associated with great institutions and country houses, personal albums belonging to individuals, and the poetry written in both? What caused albums' re-gendering from earlier friendship books kept by male students and gentlemen on the Grand Tour to a 'feminized' practice identified mainly with young women? When albums were central to women's culture, why were so many published album poems by men? How did amateur and professional poets engage differently with albums? What does album culture's privileging of 'original poetry' have to say about attitudes towards creativity and poetic practice in the age of print? This volume recovers a distinctive subgenre of occasional poetry composed to be read in manuscript, with its own characteristic formal features, conventions, themes, and cultural significance. Unique albums examined include that kept at the Grande Chartreuse, those owned by Regency socialite Lady Sarah Jersey, and those kept by Lake poets' daughters. As Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture shows, album poetry reflects changing attitudes to identity, gender, class, politics, poetry, family dynamics, and social relations in the Romantic period.
England s Lost Houses
Author | : Giles Worsley |
Publsiher | : White Lion Publishing |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015055817871 |
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Of all the photographs in Country Life's archives, none are more poignant or intriguing than the images of houses that have been lost. This text puts the lost country houses of England in historical context and explains why so many were destroyed.