Cottages Ornes: The Charms of the Simple Life
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Tracing the history of cottages ornes (ornamental cottages), this copiously illustrated volume...
Victorian Gothic House Styles
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Gothic style transformed the urban landscape from the mid 19th century. In this new book, discover...
Jane Austen's England
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Jane Austen wrote about the English gentry class in the late Georgian and Regency periods...
Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough
Charles O'Brien and Nikolaus Pevsner
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Bedfordshire is one of the smallest English counties but encompasses great variety in landscape and...
English Homes and Gardens: Part 3
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This is the third and final part of a 10-volume reprint series of 'English Homes and Gardens',...
Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century
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On an April evening in 1779, a woman is shot on the steps of Covent Garden. Her murderer is a young...
Hidden Harbours of Northwest England: 2013
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Strictly speaking Dag Pike's latest tour of historic and often long unused harbours should be titled...
Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray
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Fanny Murray (1729-1778) was a famous Georgian beauty and courtesan, desired throughout England and...
Richmond Unchained: The Biography of the World's First Black Sporting Superstar
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Today Bill Richmond is largely unknown to the wider public, but he was one of the most significant...
The Princess's Garden: Royal Intrigue and the Untold Story of Kew
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The British enthusiasm for gardening has fascinating roots. The Empire and trade across the globe...