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The Destruction of the Country House 1875 1975
Author | : Marcus Binney,Roy C. Strong,John Harris |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Country Homes Great Britain |
ISBN | : 0500270058 |
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The Destruction of the Country House 1875 1975
Author | : Roy C. Strong |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Country homes |
ISBN | : 0500270058 |
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The Destruction of the Country House 1875 1975
Author | : Roy C. Strong |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1974-01-01 |
Genre | : Country homes |
ISBN | : OCLC:252004616 |
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The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home
Author | : Peter Mandler |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300078692 |
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Challenging the prevailing view of a modern English culture besotted with its history and aristocracy, Mandler portrays instead a continuously changing society where both intellectual and popular attitudes have only recently turned to admiration.
Robert Adam
Author | : Richard John |
Publsiher | : Images Publishing |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781920744540 |
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This addition to the 'New Classicists' series features the work of Robert Adam Architects Ltd, one of the leading practitioners of of traditional design in the UK. The practice manages a broad portfolio of work including house conversions and additions.
No Voice from the Hall
Author | : John Harris |
Publsiher | : John Murray Pubs Limited |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0719561493 |
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This volume recounts an odyssey through country houses in the years following World War II. Most had been requisitioned by the armed forces and, when de-requisitioned, were left to stand empty awaiting their owners' return. It was then that John Harris first discovered country houses.
The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : Christopher Christie |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0719047250 |
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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.
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.