Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes write by Michael Paterson. This book was released on 2012-09-06. Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Victorian and Edwardian eras in the run-up to 1914 marked the golden age of the English country house, when opulence and formality attained a level that would never be matched again. The ease of these perfect settings for flirtation and relaxation was maintained by a large and well-trained staff of servants. Although those 'in service' worked very long hours and had little personal freedom, many were proud of their positions and grateful for the relative security these gave. Indeed, the strictly hierarchical world below stairs could be more snobbish than that of a house's owners. Michael Paterson skilfully and entertainingly explores the myths and realities of this vanished world, both upstairs and down.
A Brief Guide to Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes
A Brief Guide to Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Brief Guide to Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes write by Michael Paterson. This book was released on 2012. A Brief Guide to Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Celebrates the opulence and formality that prevailed during the Victorian and Edwardian eras by exploring the myths and realities of the stately and beautiful English country house, similar to the one depicted in "Downton Abbey."
The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home
The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home write by Peter Mandler. This book was released on 1997-01-01. The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Challenging the prevailing view of a modern English culture besotted with its history and aristocracy, Mandler portrays instead a continuously changing society where both intellectual and popular attitudes have only recently turned to admiration.
Privacy
Privacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Privacy write by David Vincent. This book was released on 2016-02-29. Privacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept and practice of privacy from the Middle Ages to the present controversy over digital communication and state surveillance provoked by the revelations of Edward Snowden. Deploying a range of vivid primary material, he discusses the management of private information in the context of housing, outdoor spaces, religious observance, reading, diaries and autobiographies, correspondence, neighbours, gossip, surveillance, the public sphere and the state. Key developments, such as the nineteenth-century celebration of the enclosed and intimate middle-class household, are placed in the context of long-term development. The book surveys and challenges the main currents in the extensive secondary literature on the subject. It seeks to strike a new balance between the built environment and world beyond the threshold, between written and face-to-face communication, between anonymity and familiarity in towns and cities, between religion and secular meditation, between the state and the private sphere and, above all, between intimacy and individualism. Ranging from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first, this book shows that the history of privacy has been an arena of contested choices, and not simply a progression towards a settled ideal. Privacy: A Short History will be of interest to students and scholars of history, and all those interested in this topical subject.
Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats
Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats write by James Reginato. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This stunning book presents the intriguing stories and celebrated histories of some of the leading families of Great Britain and Ireland and the opulent residences that have defined their heritages. The history of England is inextricably linked with the stories of its leading aristocratic dynasties and the great seats they have occupied for centuries. As the current owners speak of the critical roles their ancestors have played in the nation, they bring history alive. All of these houses have survived great wars, economic upheavals, and, at times, scandal. Filled with stunning photography, this book is a remarkably intimate and lively look inside some of Britain’s stateliest houses, with the modern-day aristocrats who live in them and keep them going in high style. This book presents a tour of some of England’s finest residences, with many of the interiors shown here for the first time. It includes Blenheim Palace—seven acres under one roof, eclipsing the splendor of any of the British royal family’s residences—property of the Dukes of Marlborough; the exquisite Old Vicarage in Derbyshire, last residence of the late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (née Deborah Mitford); Haddon Hall, a vast crenellated 900-year-old manor house belonging to the Dukes of Rutland that has been called the most romantic house in England; and the island paradises on Mustique and St. Lucia of the 3rd Baron Glenconner. This book is perfect for history buffs and lovers of traditional interior design and English country life.
