Download or read book Potted History written by Catherine Horwood and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are plenty of books on how to look after houseplants but no one has shown us how, when and why these plants came to be found in our homes. In this fascinating book we learn how potted plants are as subject to fashion as pieces of furniture. For the Victorians it was the aspidistra in the front parlor; for us it is the orchid in the designer loft. We find that Wedgwood created a market for special bulb pots and that some of Conran's early designs were for houseplant containers. Then there is the story of mignonette - a modest plant but once prized in every home for its intoxicating scent. Now that scent is lost to us for ever. Catherine Horwood's novel combination of social history, plant history and the history of interior design is intriguing. Her illustrations come from a variety of unusual sources since potted plants may be found in many unexpected corners.
Download or read book Preston A Potted History written by Keith Johnson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible history of Preston from prehistory to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.
Download or read book Lichfield A Potted History written by Teresa Gilmore and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-09-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible history of Lichfield from prehistory to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.
Download or read book Potted History written by Catherine Horwood and published by Pimpernel Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Horwood explores the role of houseplants and cut flowers in the home and has combined social history, plant history and the history of interior design.
Download or read book Cork A Potted History written by Kieran McCarthy and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible history of Cork from its beginnings to the present day, following a walking trail highlighting the city’s significant events and people.
Download or read book Oxford A Potted History written by David Meara and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible history of Oxford from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.
Download or read book Wakefield A Potted History written by Paul L. Dawson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible history of Wakefield from prehistory to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.
Download or read book Southampton A Potted History written by Martin Brisland and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible history of Southampton from its beginnings to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.
Download or read book Darlington A Potted History written by Colin Wilkinson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible history of Darlington from prehistory to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.
Download or read book Rotherham A Potted History written by James Barker and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible history of Rotherham from its beginnings to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.
Download or read book Bicester A Potted History written by Matthew Hathaway and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible history of Bicester from pre-history to the present day highlighting the town’s significant events and people.
Download or read book Whitby A Potted History written by Colin Wilkinson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible history of Whitby from prehistory to the present day highlighting the town’s significant events and people.
Download or read book Taming the Potted Beast written by Molly Williams and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colorful, peculiar history of the houseplant—from ancient Rome to Victorian England to Instagram—a botanical adventure full of histrionic highs, devastating lows, and sensational turning points along the way. From the hanging gardens of Babylon to that fiddle-leaf fig in your living room, houseplants have been humanity's companions for a millennia. Taming the Potted Beast explores the history of our air-purifying friends with an entertaining narrative of the peculiar, often dramatic story of the cultivation and domestication of the not-so-humble houseplant. Including entertaining historical vignettes, DIY plant projects, and accessible tips and tricks for caring for your own historical houseplant collection, this book has any plant-curious reader covered. Readers will come away with practical projects, expert advice, and an understanding of the historical significance of houseplants as well as an appreciation of the cultures from which they emerged. Both fascinating and fun, Taming the Potted Beast will take readers on exhilarating botanical adventure through the ages.
Download or read book A Short History of Celebrity written by Fred Inglis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of celebrity from Byron to Beckham Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life—and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's Hollywood. Vividly written and brimming with fascinating stories of figures whose lives mark important moments in the history of celebrity, this book explains how fame has changed over the past two-and-a-half centuries. Starting with the first modern celebrities in mid-eighteenth-century London, including Samuel Johnson and the Prince Regent, the book traces the changing nature of celebrity and celebrities through the age of the Romantic hero, the European fin de siècle, and the Gilded Age in New York and Chicago. In the twentieth century, the book covers the Jazz Age, the rise of political celebrities such as Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin, and the democratization of celebrity in the postwar decades, as actors, rock stars, and sports heroes became the leading celebrities. Arguing that celebrity is a mirror reflecting some of the worst as well as some of the best aspects of modern history itself, Inglis considers how the lives of the rich and famous provide not only entertainment but also social cohesion and, like morality plays, examples of what—and what not—to do. This book will interest anyone who is curious about the history that lies behind one of the great preoccupations of our lives. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Download or read book A Short History of English Literature written by Harry Blamires and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the main periods, movements, figures, the achievements of British literature from Chaucer's time to the 1980s, emphasizing each writer's major work and the continuity of tradition within the genres
Download or read book A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps written by Jonn Elledge and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped, why the world looks the way it does—and about human folly. From the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilization, to the secret British-French agreement to carve up the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, to the reason why landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy, this is a fascinating, witty, and surprising look at the history of the world told through its borders.
Download or read book A Potted History of Fruit written by Michael Darton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two beautifully illustrated little giftbooks Whether to escape the rat race, help save the planet, economize, or all of the above, people are heading back to the land. Backyard gardens have never been so popular, farmers markets are abundant with seasonal and local produce, and a healthy nostalgia for growing heirloom plants is in vogue. These two books embrace this idea by reacquainting the reader with the origins, nature, and peculiarities of the world's produce. Among the many revelations in their pages: apples have been cultivated by humans for at least three millennia, fresh pineapple juice can be used as a meat tenderizer, carrots were once purple, and potatoes were originally kept as ornamental rather than edible plants. Combining beautiful reproductions of the finest nineteenth-century botanical illustrations with a miscellany of fascinating facts and extraordinary histories, these are ideal giftbooks for the heirloom gardener, locavore, or conservationist. Mike Darton is a writer and editor with a passion for words, knowledge, and trivia. His published titles include a large number of dictionaries and miscellanies, such as the parody "Spott's Miscellany." He lives in the United Kingdom. Lorraine Harrison is a successful gardener and gardening writer with a passion for exotic and heirloom vegetables. Among her previous titles are" How to Read Gardens "and "The Shaker Book of the Garden."
