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

Who Really Rules The World

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The Women Who Saved the English Countryside 9780300265309

A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable w

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Who Really Invented the Automobile? 2225353034

The automobile was perfected in 1829 and ran well on English roads. Who prevented its development? Was it the railway en

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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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The Prince and the Yankee: The Tale of a Country Girl Who Became a Princess 9780755626229, 9781860648977

Beautiful, vivacious and fearless, Agnes Leclerc was 21 years old when she met Prince Felix Salm, a Prussian officer in

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

There is something special about the English country house garden: from its quiet verdant lawns to its high yew hedges,

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

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Smyllie's Ireland: Protestants, Independence, and the Man Who Ran the Irish Times 9780253041265, 0253041260

“A thoughtful, superbly researched and elegantly written study of one the most important pioneering Irish newspaper edit

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