Author: Arthur YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A six weeks tour, through the southern counties of England and Wales. By the author of the Farmer's letters
Author: Arthur YoungAlbion's People
Author: John RulePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317895940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This second volume of John Rule's major two-volume portrait of Georgian England is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of eighteenth-century society, incorporating the exciting new research findings of recent years. It deals in turn with the upper class, `middling sort' and lower orders; with popular education, religion and culture; with standards of living in town and country; and with crime, punishment and protest. The book, which is as rich and varied as the age it explores, ends with an assessment of continuity and change across the century.
The History and Social Influence of the Potato
Author: Redcliffe N. SalamanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521316231
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
A reissue of a scholarly classic considers the influence of the potato on the social structure and economy throughout history wherever men adopted it as a mainstay of their diets.
Sources for English Local History
Author: W. B. StephensPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521282130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
English local and regional history has attracted widespread attention in the last twenty-five to thirty years. Its study has expanded at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in universities, polytechnics, and at other institutions of higher education, and it has long retained its popularity as a subject for adult education classes. In schools the teaching of local history in its own right, and as an ingredient of general history, environmental studies, and local and social studies, is well established, and commonly involves the use of original sources. The expansion of genealogical studies into the wider area of family history has involved many individuals and groups in the investigation of the local conditions, which existed where former generations lived and, in this pursuit, increasing use of local records has been made. Many who seek to involve themselves in this work, however, find that they are ill-equipped in the knowledge of what sources exist, where they are to be found, or what techniques are suitable in making the best use of them.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet in Scotland
Author: Signet Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet in Scotland
Author: Thomas-Graves LawThe History of Progress in Great Britain
Author: Robert Kemp PhilpPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The History of Progress in Great Britain
Author: Robert Kemp PhilpPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382313847
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Jocelyn AndersonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501334980
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Over the course of the long 18th century, many of England's grandest country houses became known for displaying noteworthy architecture and design, large collections of sculptures and paintings, and expansive landscape gardens and parks. Although these houses continued to function as residences and spaces of elite retreat, they had powerful public identities: increasingly accessible to tourists and extensively described by travel writers, they began to be celebrated as sites of great importance to national culture. This book examines how these identities emerged, repositioning the importance of country houses in 18th-century Britain and exploring what it took to turn them into tourist attractions. Drawing on travel books, guidebooks, and dozens of tourists' diaries and letters, it explores what it meant to tour country houses such as Blenheim Palace, Chatsworth, Wilton, Kedleston and Burghley in the tumultuous 1700s. It also questions the legacies of these early tourists: both as a critical cultural practice in the 18th century and an extraordinary and controversial influence in British culture today, country-house tourism is a phenomenon that demands investigation.
Travel and the British country house
Author: Jon StobartPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526110350
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
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.