What exactly is it that we preserve – and pay for – so carefully? Stourton looks at various parks, buildings and collections and charts two particular periods of conservation – the 1880s and the 1960s.
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past
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£40.00
Edition:Hardback978183893316610/11/2022
Categories: 02. Books for Christmas 2022: History, Art, Books for Christmas 2022, History
Tag: Country Houses
From a Bookshelf nearby
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A Christmas house party at Chatsworth wouldn't be worth its salt without a séance... A cold case as well as cold cuts for Debo and Louisa Cannon.
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On the Forth of Forth, near Edinburgh, Hopetoun belongs to the Marquess of Linlithgow. A handsome book with authoritative text and lavish pics.
Hopetoun: Scotland’s Finest Stately Home
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Lavish book on this magnificent house, by its owner, now the thirteenth generation of Sackvilles. Knole appears in Woolf's Orlando as her protagonist's vast Elizabethan domain, more like a t... read more
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Draws on unpublished archives at Highclere to tell the story of the 5th Earl who excavated with Howard Carter in 1922/23.