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November 2017

Travel and the British country house

Cultures, critiques and consumption in the long eighteenth century

by Jon Stobart, Roey Sweet, John Harrison, Rebecca Campion, Emile de Bruijn, Hanneke Ronnes, Renske Koster, Rosie MacArthur, Jocelyn Anderson, Kristof Fatsar, Peter Edwards, Jon Stobart, Ellen Filor

Travel and the British country house explores the ways in which travel by owners, visitors and material objects shaped country houses during the long eighteenth century. It provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of this relationship, and how it varied according to the identity of the traveller and the geography of their journeys. The essays explore how travel on the Grand Tour and further afield formed an inspiration to build or remodel houses and gardens; the importance of country house visiting in shaping taste amongst British and European elites, and the practical aspects of travel, including the expenditure involved. Suitable for a scholarly audience, including postgraduate and undergraduate students, but also accessible to the general reader, Travel and the British country house offers a series of fascinating studies of the country house that serve to animate the country house with flows of people, goods and ideas.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2017

Travel and the British country house

Cultures, critiques and consumption in the long eighteenth century

by Jon Stobart, Roey Sweet, John Harrison, Rebecca Campion, Emile de Bruijn, Hanneke Ronnes, Renske Koster, Rosie MacArthur, Jocelyn Anderson, Kristof Fatsar, Peter Edwards, Jon Stobart, Ellen Filor

Travel and the British country house explores the ways in which travel by owners, visitors and material objects shaped country houses during the long eighteenth century. It provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of this relationship, and how it varied according to the identity of the traveller and the geography of their journeys. The essays explore how travel on the Grand Tour and further afield formed an inspiration to build or remodel houses and gardens; the importance of country house visiting in shaping taste amongst British and European elites, and the practical aspects of travel, including the expenditure involved. Suitable for a scholarly audience, including postgraduate and undergraduate students, but also accessible to the general reader, Travel and the British country house offers a series of fascinating studies of the country house that serve to animate the country house with flows of people, goods and ideas.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2017

Travel and the British country house

Cultures, critiques and consumption in the long eighteenth century

by Jon Stobart, Roey Sweet, John Harrison, Rebecca Campion, Emile de Bruijn, Hanneke Ronnes, Renske Koster, Rosie MacArthur, Jocelyn Anderson, Kristof Fatsar, Peter Edwards, Jon Stobart, Ellen Filor

Travel and the British country house explores the ways in which travel by owners, visitors and material objects shaped country houses during the long eighteenth century. It provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of this relationship, and how it varied according to the identity of the traveller and the geography of their journeys. The essays explore how travel on the Grand Tour and further afield formed an inspiration to build or remodel houses and gardens; the importance of country house visiting in shaping taste amongst British and European elites, and the practical aspects of travel, including the expenditure involved. Suitable for a scholarly audience, including postgraduate and undergraduate students, but also accessible to the general reader, Travel and the British country house offers a series of fascinating studies of the country house that serve to animate the country house with flows of people, goods and ideas.

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The Arts

July 2015

The intellectual culture of the English country house, 1500–1700

by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield, Margaret Healy

The intellectual culture of the English country house is a ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars, which uncovers the vibrant intellectual life of early modern provincial England. The essays in the volume explore architectural planning; libraries and book collecting; landscape gardening; interior design; the history of science and scientific experimentation; and the collection of portraits and paintings. The essays demonstrate the significance of the English country house (e.g. Knole House, Castle Howard, Penshurst Place) and its place within larger local cultures that it helped to create and shape. They provide a substantial overview of the country house culture of early modern England and the complicated relationship between the provinces and the national, the country and the city, in a period of rapid social, intellectual and economic transformation. It will appeal to anyone interested in the culture of the country house and its place in early modern England. ;

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The Arts

April 2018

The intellectual culture of the English country house, 1500–1700

by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield, Margaret Healy

Now available in paperback, The intellectual culture of the English country house is a ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars, which uncovers the vibrant intellectual life of early modern provincial England. The essays explore architectural planning; libraries and book collecting; landscape gardening; interior design; the history of science and scientific experimentation; and the collection of portraits and paintings. The volume demonstrate the significance of the English country house (e.g. Knole House, Castle Howard, Penshurst Place) and its place within larger local cultures that it helped to create and shape. It provides a substantial overview of the country house culture of early modern England and the complicated relationship between the provinces and the national, the country and the city, in a period of rapid social, intellectual and economic transformation.

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History

May 2015

William and Kate's Britain

An Insider's Guide to the Haunts of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

by Joseph Claudia

This is a unique travel guide to Britain with a royal twist, packed full of colour photographs, interesting facts and royal anecdotes.

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Palaces, chateaux, country houses

Woburn Abbey

380 Years of English Landscaping

by Keir Davidson (author)

The park and gardens at Woburn Abbey tell a fascinating story, and one that illuminates the history of English landscaping from the sixteenth century to the present day. Drawing on the enormous quantity of material available in the Woburn Archives, as well as the historic images and details preserved in the art in the Abbey itself, this book describes how the park and gardens developed, following wider trends in landscaping as well as the individual tastes of the successive duckes and duchesses. It also places the significant developments in the park and gardens in the context of the other garens built at the time. The dukes (and before them the earls) of Bedford have been in continual posession of Woburn Abbey since 1540. Over the centuries in all the major periods of English landscaping, gardens have been built at Woburn which not only reflect the styles of their times, but also throw light on the changing responses to the natural landscape which initiated those changes in style. Almost all of the important figures in English landscaping - from Isaac de Caus to George London and Henry Wise, Charles Bridgeman and Humphry Repton - worked for the Bedford family at one time or another. In our own time, a ten-year programme of restoration of Repton's Pleasure Gardens initiated by the present Duchess is under way. When this is finished, in 2018, the result will be the most complete Repton pleasure grounds anywhere in the world. In this book Keir Davidson weaves specific and wider themes together in a way that brings the whole enthralling story to life, engaging the reader with historic gardens that are not simply part of a lost past, but can be experienced today.

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Cultures, critiques and consumption in the long eighteenth century

by Jon Stobart, Roey Sweet, John Harrison, Rebecca Campion, Emile de Bruijn, Hanneke Ronnes, Renske Koster, Rosie MacArthur, Jocelyn Anderson, Kristof Fatsar, Peter Edwards, Jon Stobart, Ellen Filor

Travel and the British country house

Cultures, critiques and consumption in the long eighteenth century

by Jon Stobart, Roey Sweet, John Harrison, Rebecca Campion, Emile de Bruijn, Hanneke Ronnes, Renske Koster, Rosie MacArthur, Jocelyn Anderson, Kristof Fatsar, Peter Edwards, Jon Stobart, Ellen Filor

Travel and the British country house

Cultures, critiques and consumption in the long eighteenth century

by Jon Stobart, Roey Sweet, John Harrison, Rebecca Campion, Emile de Bruijn, Hanneke Ronnes, Renske Koster, Rosie MacArthur, Jocelyn Anderson, Kristof Fatsar, Peter Edwards, Jon Stobart, Ellen Filor

The intellectual culture of the English country house, 1500–1700

by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield, Margaret Healy

The intellectual culture of the English country house, 1500–1700

by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield, Margaret Healy

William and Kate's Britain

An Insider's Guide to the Haunts of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

by Joseph Claudia

Woburn Abbey

380 Years of English Landscaping

by Keir Davidson (author)

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Cultures, critiques and consumption in the long eighteenth century

by Jon Stobart, Roey Sweet, John Harrison, Rebecca Campion, Emile de Bruijn, Hanneke Ronnes, Renske Koster, Rosie MacArthur, Jocelyn Anderson, Kristof Fatsar, Peter Edwards, Jon Stobart, Ellen Filor

Cultures, critiques and consumption in the long eighteenth century

by Jon Stobart, Roey Sweet, John Harrison, Rebecca Campion, Emile de Bruijn, Hanneke Ronnes, Renske Koster, Rosie MacArthur, Jocelyn Anderson, Kristof Fatsar, Peter Edwards, Jon Stobart, Ellen Filor

by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield, Margaret Healy

by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield, Margaret Healy

An Insider's Guide to the Haunts of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

by Joseph Claudia

380 Years of English Landscaping

by Keir Davidson (author)

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