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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Country houses"”.
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'Facile Princeps': The Country Houses of David Bryce (1803–1876)
… (1803–1876). Its scope is Bryce’s extensive country house practice. Despite being praised by obituarists as the head of the Scottish profession, Bryce has yet to be the subject of a full-length book, or of an indexed journal article. Accordingly, this thesis represents the most extensive work …
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The diversity of flower-visiting insects in the gardens of English country houses
… for the first time, the role that large English country-house gardens play in supporting flower visitors within expanses of intensively farmed agricultural land. Focussing on 17 properties in lowland Central England, the results show that these novel ecosystems are important sites for hoverflies, …
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The development of a national heritage policy for libraries and book collections of country houses.
This work examines the country house libraries of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Hitherto this is an area largely overlooked both in terms of librarianship and social history. The first part of the thesis examines the historical development of book collections within country houses. In …
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Historic assets and their significance: Country houses & gardens of South Pembrokeshire c.1700-c.1850
… parks and gardens, garden structures, listed country houses, associated outbuildings and scheduled ancient monuments, c.1700-1850. These are located in south Pembrokeshire. This geographical area contains historic assets in high density. With OS grid references, it includes: Great House …
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Accommodating the Picturesque: The Country Houses of James Wyatt, John Nash and John Soane, 1793–1815
… ideas on the design and execution of British country houses at the turn of the nineteenth century. It departs from previous scholarly approaches in its focus on specific architectural responses and solutions that mediated the relationship—boundaries, transitions and interactions—between house …
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Obsolescence in the Scottish country house and conservation of the architectural fabric by conversion to tourist accommodation: identification of the key variables affecting the decision process.
The thesis presented in this study is that many country houses in Scotland have found a viable new use in conversion as tourist accommodation to the advantage of both tourism and conservation. The research project aimed to discover the truth of this statement. It investigated the factors involved …
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A demonstration of riches: landscape narratives at Chatsworth
… narratives at Chatsworth; England’s most visited country house, and proposes new narratives that are more socially inclusive and that cover a broader swath of history. It also proposes a new mode of information dissemination based on the increased use of smartphones and other PDA’s. In exploring …
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A study of aspiration and ambition: the Scottish Treasury Commission and its impact upon the development of Scottish country house architecture 1667-1682
… historians have greeted the first classical country houses as evidence of a renaissance culture, while English historians have treated them as a diversion from the mainstream development of British architecture. In reality, the number of classical country houses that were built in Scotland in …
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The architecture of Sir Ernest George and his partners, c. 1860-1922.
… of practice. George and Vaughan's first country house commission, Rousdon, Devon and associated works for Sir Henry Peek are considered in detail. Chapter 2 examines the Peto family and its associations, noting influences on George through his partnership with Harold Ainsworth Peto. …
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Heritage Fictions: The Country-House Novel, Preservation, and the New Britain
… Child</italic> (2011), in revisiting the English country house, reveal the centrality of preservationism to twentieth-century British identity. According to most critics, this site grows increasingly anachronistic as the century progresses, a repository for that which is considered out of time in …
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The Irish state and the Big House in independent Ireland, 1922–73
… state bodies. The term Big House will denote the country homes of landlords in Ireland, predominantly dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ‘Big House’ will be capitalised throughout the thesis because it was the label, rather than the description, popularly used to denote country …
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"Then Came the Peaceful Invasion of the Northerners": The Impact of Outsiders On Plantation Architecture in Georgetown County, South Carolina
… of the Southern past, and ease of creating large country houses in the region's historic landscapes. During this period, the popularity of the Colonial Revival influenced restorations of historic structures throughout the country. As the decades wore on, an emphasis on perceived authenticity, …
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PRIVILEGE LOST: THE COUNTRY HOUSE, ARISTOCRACY AND ENGLISHNESS IN NANCY MITFORD'S NOVELS
… symbolic-cultural representation: the English country house. The main purpose of the present work, which combines literary, biographical, historical, geographical, architectural and social analysis, is the re-evaluation of Mitford’s undervalued literary production, which has been relegated to …
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Diction and narration in I. Compton-Burnett's novels (1925-1939)
… retrospectively: her settings were the large country houses of the upper middle class during the late Victorian era and the early years of the twentieth century.Critiques of her work have often taken the form of challenges to what has been perceived as excessive dialogue and a consequent lack …
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The English Rothschild Family in the Vale of Aylesbury: their houses, collections, and collecting activity 1830-1900
… or building by the Rothschild family of seven country houses is explored, in particular the reasons why the family chose to build such residences and to settle in the Vale of Aylesbury. The context of the construction of these houses, their functions, and the family’s aims in building them is …
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Elite women's household management: Yorkshire, 1680-1810
… role of elite women from a range of Yorkshire country houses in the eighteenth century. This group provides a very rich number of cases for this analysis. It first sets contemporary views of elite women in light of the traditional constructions of gendered roles which established a woman's …
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Architectural planning and behavioural conventions in the re-use of spiritual properties in sixteenth-century London
… spaces that the same owners enjoyed in the country, hence permitting wider social conclusions to be drawn. In highlighting the significance of certain characteristics of architectural planning, the culture of the society that demanded them is more easily understood. The thesis commences by …
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Restoration and Adaptive Use of a Historic English Country Estate: A Learning History
… similar restoration projects.;Many English country houses, once home to the elite, have been abandoned since the turn of the twentieth century due to the high expense of upkeep or the lack of heirs. Many have been destroyed, some have become house museums and others have been adaptively-used …
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Maids, Wives and Widows: Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
This thesis explores the extent to which elite women of the eighteenth century commissioned architectural works and the extent to which the type and scale of their projects was dictated by their marital status. Traditionally, architectural historians have advocated that eighteenth-century …