Mark Girouard

Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76.

A Social and Architectural History

Life in the English Country House

A study of Britain's great nineteenth-century houses examines their architects, and the social, technological, and economic conditions that made the massive structures possible

The Victorian Country House

The result of new research and travel on his part, this remarkable book displays Girouard's unique sense of style and is fired by the excitement that the architecture of the period still generates in him.

Its Rise and Fall, 1540-1640

Elizabethan Architecture

Hardwick Old Hall

Robert Smythson and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era

Mark Girouard describes the 'Queen Anne' movement in all its manifestations, tracing its origin in the 1860s, the spread of its subsequent vogue from London to the provinces, and from England to America, and is fall from grace in the 1890s when it was taken up by architects of pubs and waterside villas.

The Queen Anne Movement, 1860-1900

Sweetness and Light

By looking at England's cathedral towns, Regency spas and industrial cities, and at their market squares, docks, council chambers and assembly rooms, the author traces the development of English towns through the centuries.

A History of Urban Life

The English Town

The author of Life in the English Country House crosses the Channel for a look at French pastoral living, using letters, diaries, inventories, and contemporary etiquette to recreate life in the "great houses" of the French countryside. 12,500 first printing.

Life in the French Country House

Geïllustreerde studie over de herleving van de codes van het middeleeuwse ridderschap van het einde van de 18e eeuw tot de eerste wereldoorlog.

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