The English Country House Garden: Traditional Retreats to Contemporary Masterpieces 9780711232990

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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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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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 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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Traditional Crafts and Skills from the Country: From the garden to the kitchen, and from raising chickens to woodworking, a fresh and easy-to-follow approach to country wisdom 1493061984, 9781493061983

Time-honored practices for a more self-reliant and satisfying lifestyle. Ever have the urge to raise your own chickens

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

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The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden: Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats 1784535729, 9781784535728

Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures. The Georgian ga

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Mary Rose's 1001 New Country Garden Hints 9781844062324, 1844060098

This comprehensive collection of over one thousand hints and tips has been compiled by Mary Rose Quigg to give a very pr

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Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 16-175 9780812292787

"This is a major work and, I think, Hunt's best. . . . Once picked up, the book cannot be put down, for it is

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The Arcadian friends : inventing the English landscape garden 9780593052730, 0593052730

Between 1715 and 1750 a group of politicians and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners began to exper

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