[PDF] Tales From The Big House Normanby Hall eBook

Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1473893410

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Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall tells the story of a place known perhaps today mainly as the home where Samantha Cameron grew up, but historically it has been the seat of the Sheffield family, whose most famous member was arguably the Duke of Buckingham in the seventeenth century. As with most country houses, the Hall was used as a military hospital in the Great War, and in the Second World War there were military personnel based there again. It stands just a few miles from the great steelworks on the Brigg Road, which have always defined Scunthorpe, so it played its part in the history of steel-making also.The book includes biographies of the famous but also tells of the lives of the ordinary people who kept the house and the estate going, from the gamekeepers to the gardeners, and the cooks to the stable hands. All this is set against the social background through the centuries of its existence, up to the sale of the Hall to Scunthorpe Borough Council in 1964. The lives familiar to us today from Downton Abbey and similar family sagas are at the heart of Stephen Wades history. But along the way, the reader will meet such characters as Sir Berkeley Sheffield, model railway enthusiast, Walter Brierley, architect, Thomas Sumpter, the schoolmaster, John Fletcher, machine-maker, and perhaps most charismatically of all, Lady Arthur Grosvenor, an expert on gypsy caravans.

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 14683 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 2023-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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This meticulously edited Anthony Trollope collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden Barchester Towers Doctor Thorne Framley Parsonage The Small House at Allington The Last Chronicle of Barset Palliser Novels: Can You Forgive Her? Phineas Finn The Eustace Diamonds Phineas Redux The Prime Minister The Duke's Children Irish Novels: The Macdermots of Ballycloran The Kellys and the O'Kellys Castle Richmond An Eye for an Eye The Landleaguers Other Novels: La Vendée The Three Clerks The Bertrams Orley Farm The Struggles of Brown, Jones & Robinson Rachel Ray Miss Mackenzie The Belton Estate The Claverings Nina Balatka Linda Tressel He Knew He Was Right The Vicar of Bullhampton Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite Ralph the Heir The Golden Lion of Granpère Harry Heathcote of Gangoil Lady Anna The Way We Live Now The American Senator Is He Popenjoy? John Caldigate Cousin Henry Ayala's Angel Doctor Wortle's School The Fixed Period Kept in the Dark Marion Fay Mr. Scarborough's Family An Old Man's Love Short Stories: Tales of All Countries: La Mère Bauche The O'Conors of Castle Conor John Bull on the Guadalquivir Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaica The Courtship of Susan Bell Relics of General Chassé An Unprotected Female At the Pyramids... Lotta Schmidt & Other Stories An Editor's Tales Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and other Stories Other Stories Plays: Did He Steal It? The Noble Jilt Travel Writings: The West Indies and the Spanish Main North America South Africa How the 'Mastiffs' Went to Iceland Sketches: Hunting Sketches Travelling Sketches Clergymen of the Church of England Studies & Essays: The Commentaries of Caesar Thackeray Life of Cicero Lord Palmerston A Walk in a Wood On Anonymous Literature On English Prose Fiction as Rational Amusement On the Higher Education of Women The Civil Service as a Profession The National Gallery Clarissa The Uncontrolled Ruffianism of London The Young Women at the London Telegraph Office An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

Author : Margaret Ponsonby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1317049861

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Most homes in the past were not elite, wealthy interiors complete with high fashion furnishings, designed by well-known architects and designers, as many domestic histories often seem to have assumed. As this book makes clear, there were in fact an enormous variety of house interiors in England during the period 1750-1850, reflecting the location, status and gender of particular householders, as well as their changing attitudes, tastes and aspirations. By focusing on non-metropolitan homes, which represented the majority of households in England, this study highlights the need for historians to look beyond prevailing attitudes that often reduce interiors to generic descriptions based on high fashions of the decorative arts. Instead it shows how numerous social and cultural influences affected the manner in which homes were furnished and decorated. Issues such as the availability of goods, gender, regional taste, income, the second-hand market, changing notions of privacy and household hierarchies and print culture, could all have a significant impact on domestic furnishing. The study ends with a discussion of how domestic interiors of historic properties have been presented and displayed in modern times, highlighting how competing notions of the past can cloud as well as illuminate the issue. Combining cultural history and qualitative analysis of evidence, this book presents a new way of looking at 'ordinary' and 'provincial' homes that enriches our understanding of English domestic life of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780393057409

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Offers alphabetical listings of more than two thousand locations, including gardens, historic houses, museums, and natural sites.

Author : Peter Long
Publisher : Travel Publishing Ltd
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781904434122

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England's landscape is as diverse as its culture. It is a country with magnificent landscapes. This guide looks at the more established places of interest throughout the country, but it also focuses on the more secluded and little known visitor attractions and places to stay, eat and drink.

Author : Timothy Brittain-Catlin
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9781848222687

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Edwardian domestic architecture was beautiful and varied in style, and was very often designed and built to an unprecedented level of sophistication. It was also astonishingly innovative, and provided new building types for weekends, sport and gardening, as well as fascinating insights into attitudes to historic architecture, health and science. 0This book is the first radical overview of the period since the 1970s, and focuses on how the leading circle of the Liberal Party, who built incessantly and at every scale, influenced the pattern of building across England. It also looks at the building literature of the period, from Country Life to the mass-production picture books for builders and villa builders, and traces the links between these houses and suburbs on the one hand, and the literature and other creative forms of the period of the other. It is part of a new movement to explore the ways in which architectural history is recorded and adds up to an original interpretation of British culture of the period.

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 14681 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Literary Collections
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Anthony Trollope's 'The Complete Works of Anthony Trollope' is a comprehensive collection of the esteemed author's literary masterpieces. Trollope's novels are known for their detailed character portrayals, intricate plot twists, and insightful commentary on Victorian society. The collection includes classics such as 'The Barchester Chronicles' and 'The Palliser Novels', showcasing Trollope's versatility as a writer and his ability to capture the complexities of human nature. With his engaging prose and keen social observations, Trollope remains a significant figure in English literature. His works continue to be studied and appreciated for their enduring relevance and literary merit. Born in 1815, Trollope drew inspiration from his experiences working for the British Post Office, which provided him with a unique insight into bureaucracy and social hierarchy. His writing reflects a deep understanding of human motivations and societal norms, making his works a valuable resource for students and enthusiasts of Victorian literature. 'The Complete Works of Anthony Trollope' is a must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of 19th-century British society and the timeless themes that continue to resonate with readers today.