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1) If walls could talk: an intimate history of the home

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"Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two "dirty centuries"? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit? All these questions will be answered in this juicy, smelly, and truly intimate history of home life. Lucy Worsley takes us through the bedroom, bathroom, living...

2) Recent English domestic architecture, 1929

Author

H. de C

Publisher

The Architectural Press

Pub. Date

[1929]

3) Domestic Gothic of the Tudor period

Author

Castle, Sydney Ernest

Publisher

International Casement Company, Inc

Pub. Date

[1927]

4) The mansions of England in the olden time

Author

Nash, Joseph

Publisher

Offices of `The Stvdio

Pub. Date

1906

5) The English house: English country houses & interiors

Author

Griffiths, Sally

Publisher

Rizzoli

Pub. Date

2004

6) Creating dolls' house period style: how to source and make fixtures and fittings in 1/12th scale

Author

Barnard, Lionel

Publisher

David & Charles

Pub. Date

2003

7) The Tudor house and garden: architecture and landscape in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries

Author

Henderson, Paula

Publisher

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press

Pub. Date

c2005

8) Sir John Vanbrugh: storyteller in stone

Author

Hart, Vaughan

Publisher

Yale University Press

Pub. Date

c2008

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"Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was by turns businessman, soldier, playwright, herald and architect of some of the most important country houses of his era. in this handsome and engaging book architectural historian Vaughan Hart draws on these diverse interests to examine afresh Vanbrugh's surviving, destroyed and unrealised buildings as well as the designs he executed in collaboration with Nicholas Hawksmoor. It was the fate of Vanbrugh's buildings...