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Product Description: 'I am an Empress ... and am sometimes called Empress of India. Why have I never officially assumed this title? I feel I ought to do so and wish to have preliminary enquiries made.' Five years after discussing the matter with her private secretary, in 1877 Queen Victoria became Empress of India...read more

Product Description: The Arts and Crafts Country House is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated survey of some of Britain’s most important houses.The Arts and Crafts Movement produced some of our country’s greatest works of design, architecture and decorative art...read more

Product Description: In this groundbreaking work, Clive Aslet brings us face to face with the personalities, technologies, industries, and histories that have shaped the English domestic house. The journey begins at Clive’s family home in 19th-century London, from where we peer out at the back-breaking business of brick-making and the gory executions at Tyburn...read more

Product Description: Landmarks of Britain is the history of the nation, told through the places where it actually happened. Each of the landmarks that Clive Aslet describes tells the story of a great event or figure, and the effect is a sweeping panorama of history, encompassing battlefields, cathedrals, palaces, and places linked with great events in the worlds of science, literature, architecture, religion, espionage, sport, agriculture, and industry...read more

Product Description: From the Vanderbilts' stupendous Biltmore and the Rockefellers' Kykuit to the Duponts' museum Winterthur and William Randolph Hearst's legendary San Simeon, American country houses evoke the grandeur of a bygone world of wealth and privilege...read more

Naseby, the site of a different kind of civil war - a war between country folk and newly de-mobbed urbanites in search of - what exactly? Clive Aslet went determined to find out and recorded the results of his year in the country.

Product Description: To open this book is to enter a world of living history, of pomp and pageantry, royal fiats and popular revolutions, naval exploits and mercantile triumphs, and soaring scientific achievements. This is the world of Greenwich, England, home of a now mysterious temple in the days of the ancient Romans and of the Millennium Dome in our own, biding its time on the Thames and, flush with the line of longitude zero, keeping the time of the world...read more

Product Description: The Arcadian vision has inspired some of the world's greatest architectural works, instilling through sublime suggestion a sense of order and restraint which might, particularly in urban settings, appeal less to the designer. In light of the current discussions regarding the direction of contemporary architectural expression, the question of how to build in the countryside assumes an importance not parallelled since the end of the last century...read more

Product Description: A spotlight on the dramatic, destructive changes taking place in rural Britain.

Presents photographs and plans of thirty-one of the architect's most significant houses in the United States

Looks at the career and life of the modern British architect, describes his designs for houses, mansions, and offices, and shows how he makes use of the classical tradition