Download or read book The British Country House Revival written by Ben Cowell and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, the future for country houses in Britain looked bleak. The Victoria & Albert Museum's exhibition The Destruction of the Country House, which opened in October 1974, charted the loss of over a thousand country houses in the preceding century. The makers of the exhibition warned that history could be "about to repeat itself" because of the threats besetting mansion properties, principally from higher taxation. Houses faced the prospect of having to be stripped of their collections and sold for use as offices, hotels, or hospitals, with their parks and gardens turned into golf clubs. Government might afford to save just a handful of the most significant of these places, working in tandem with charities such as the National Trust. The rest would be consigned to history. This book traces the history of country houses in Britain, from the Destruction exhibition to the present day. The wave of country house losses anticipated in 1974 never actually happened. Instead, over the next five decades Britain's country houses experienced a renaissance. Fiscal rules changed in the mid-1970s to make it easier for owners to hold on to their assets. Economic improvements in the 1980s and 1990s allowed many houses and estates to develop profitable commercial businesses. All of this was achieved only after dedicated campaigning from heritage organisations in support of the country house cause. The book argues that a new accord is needed today, to recognise and value the ongoing, if increasingly contested, contribution of country houses to British life and culture in the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Debrett s Peerage Baronetage 2008 written by Christine Shaw and published by Debrett's Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 2842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary life of Australia's first international racehorse, from creating new records in Australia to his life in California, where he won the Hollywood Gold Cup In wartime Sydney, a small and weedy racehorse kicked his way through the top tier of Australian racing. He was Shannon, one of the fastest horses the nation had ever seen. Between 1943 and 1947, Shannon broke record after record with his garrulous jockey Darby Munro. When they sensationally lost the Epsom Handicap by six inches, they forever were stamped by the race they didn't win. Sold in August 1947 for the highest price ever paid at auction for an Australian thoroughbred, Shannon ended up in America. Through headline-snatching pedigree flaws, acclimatization, and countless hardships, he blitzed across the ritzy, glitzy racetracks of 1948 California. Smashing track records, world records, and records set by Seabiscuit, the Australian bolted into world fame with speed and courage that defied all odds. Long before Black Caviar, So You Think, and Takeover Target, Shannon was Australia's first international racehorse. Starring Hall of Fame trainers and jockeys, Hollywood lawyers, and legends Bernborough and Citation, this is his tremendous story.

Download or read book Debrett s Peerage and Baronetage written by Patrick W. Montague-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 3060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book John Channon and Brass inlaid Furniture 1730 1760 written by Christopher Gilbert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reinvestigation of brass inlaid furniture made between 1730-1760, usually attributed to the Channon workshop. Research indicates that there were five London cabinet makers specializing in this furniture. This is the catalogue for an exhibition in Leeds on 22nd September 1993 and later in London.

Download or read book Dictionary of International Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical record of contemporary achievement together with a key to the location of the original biographical notes.

Download or read book Serials in the British Library written by British Library. Bibliographic Services Division and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Tudor and Stuart Devon written by Todd Gray and published by University of Exeter Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the theme of Tudor and Stuart Devon. Subjects studied include Katherine Courtney, Countess of Devon; tinworking in four Devon stannaries; the legislative activities of local MPs during the reign of Elizabeth; landed society and the emergence of the country house; North Devon maritime enterprise; English wine imports, with special reference to the Devon ports- fishing and the commercial world of early Stuart Dartmouth; the clergy in Devon, 1641-1661.

Download or read book Exeter written by Catholic Church. Diocese of Exeter (England) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science Literature and Art written by Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.

Download or read book The Dictionary of Art written by Jane Turner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Security and Defence in South West England Before 1800 written by Robert Higham and published by University of Exeter Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Roman times down to the eighteenth century, the South West of England comprised a striking example of the importance of matters of security and defence to a local society easily threatened by external enemies and by internal conflicts and tensions. In Security and Defence in South-West England Valerie A. Maxfield examines the problems of internal security from the point of view of the Roman army, as it held down newly-conquered territory. Robert Higham considers the variety of responses - notably in the form of fortifications - which medieval society offered to external as well as internal problems. Joyce Youings analyses the particular difficulties of organising the local militia in the Tudor period. Anne Duffin and Ivan Roots adopt a Cornish perspective on problems of defence in the seventeenth century. And David J. Starkey considers the interplay of trade and security in the eighteenth century, as witnessed in the contribution of the North Atlantic fishing industry to the manning of the Royal Navy. Over all, these studies provide a fascinating series of vignettes illustrating perennial and enduring problems in the history of the British Isles.

Download or read book Patterns of the Past written by Paul Pattison and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Never mind the facts, give me the story, ' was one of Christopher Taylor's favourite sayings. This volume is a tribute to the dynamic archaeologist, a leading practitioner of non-excavational field survey and landscape archaeology, who gained notice through his radio broadcasts, books, teaching, lecturing and continuing education classes. These essays are drawn from his former colleagues at the Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England. Through the editors acknowledge that `the subject range goes only part of the way to matching' Taylor's, it is nonetheless impressive