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Cruickshank, Dan

 
9781804941546: The English House: A History In Eight Buildings - The Sunday Times Bestseller
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1804941549 ISBN 13 : 9781804941546
Editeur : Penguin, 2026

Synopsis

This is the story of the superbly elegant early eighteenth-century Pallant House in Chichester. It’s the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitafields, built for a Huguenot silk-weaver, ultimately a synagogue. It’s also the story of – among others – a row of two-up, two-downs in Toxteth, a block of flats in London’s East End, and what Ideal Home’s magazine described in 1926 as Britain’s ‘first modern house’ – in Northampton.

Together these buildings reveal the ways in which English homes have developed and changed over the past few centuries. At the same time, as Dan Cruickshank shows, they have much to tell us about the lives of their first occupants: their aspirations, their struggles, their place within society and relationship with their local community. The English House brilliantly weaves these two strands together, blending architectural and social history to create a series of brilliantly observed portraits of fascinating buildings.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dan Cruickshank is an architectural historian and television presenter. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and has sat on the Executive Committee of the Georgian Group, and the Architectural Panel of the National Trust. His previous work includes the BBC television programmes Civilisation Under Attack (2015) and At Home with the British (2016), and the books A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings (2015) and Spitalfields (2016). He lives in London.

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Éditeur
Penguin
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1804941549
ISBN 13 
9781804941546
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
512
Coordonnées du fabricant
The Random House Group Limited
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