English Country House Eccentrics 9780752478210, 0752478214

English Country House Eccentrics 9780752478210, 0752478214

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Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 9780228014973

How the eighteenth-century English country house became a site for political advancement. Politics and the English Cou

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English Country House Explained (Britain's Living History) 9781846743016, 184674301X

England's country houses have never been more popular with visitors. Most are packed with masterpieces of art and a

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Irish Eccentrics 9781843512493, 9780946640676

Ireland's history has long been illuminated, and enlivened, by bizarre, colourful, extravagant, unfettered individu

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Town House, Country House: Recollections of a Quebec Childhood 9780773562202

In Town House, Country House, Hazel Boswell delightfully recounts many adventures from her mother's childhood more

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Slavery and the British Country House 9781848020641

This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery a

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The housekeeper's tale: the women who really ran the English country house 9781781312681, 9781781310434, 1781312680

Working as a housekeeper was one of the most prestigious jobs a nineteenth and early twentieth century woman could want

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At Home in the Cotswolds: Secrets of English Country House Style 9781647005887, 9781419759796

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The Building of the English Country House 1660–1880: Creating Paradise 9781474210355, 9781852855567

Building and rebuilding their houses was one of the main concerns of the English nobility and gentry, some might say the

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The Country House in English Renaissance Poetry [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520347571

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