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  • Victorian Country Life

    par Janet Sacks ...
    Collections Livre 679 - Shire Library
    During the reign of Queen Victoria, industrialisation changed every aspect of rural life. Industrial diversification led to a decline in agriculture and mass migration from country to town and city – in 1851 half the population lived in the countryside, but by 1901 only a quarter did so. This book outlines the changes and why they occurred. It paints a picture of country life as it was when ... En savoir plus

    $9.89 CAD

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  • The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain

    The immersive and brilliant historical guide to Regency Britain

    par Ian Mortimer ...
    Collections series Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides
    'Excellent... Mortimer's erudition is formidable' The TimesA time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour...Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history - the Regency, or Georgian England.This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; Britain's military triumphs at ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • A History of the Kitchen

    The Sutton Life Series

    Collections series The Sutton Life Series
    What were early kitchens like? How have they evolved over time? What factors have influenced their design? David Eveleigh takes you into the heart of the home and shows us why modern kitchens are the way they are. Everything you could wish to know about kitchens and their unusual history will be found with these pages. ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Akenfield

    par Ronald Blythe ...
    Collections series Penguin Modern Classics
    'The best portrait of rural life in England' Roger Deakin'Exquisite' John Updike'The finest contemporary writer on the English countryside' ObserverRonald Blythe's perceptive and vivid evocation of the rural Suffolk he had known since childhood was acclaimed as an instant classic when it was published in 1969. It reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences ... ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Beyond the Gatehouse

    The Eccentric Lives of England's Aristocracy

    par David Long ...
    Beyond the Gatehouse is a lighthearted, witty but factual biographical account of the eccentric lifestyles of the builders and residents of some of England's best-known country houses.Extraordinary buildings require extraordinary people, and over the centuries our historic houses have produced more than their fair share of oddballs. Insulated from the outside world by vast wealth, rolling acres ... En savoir plus

    $1.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Real Lark Rise to Candleford

    Life in the Victorian Countryside

    par Pamela Horn ...
    'The world was at the beginning of a new era, the era of machinery and scientific discovery. Values and conditions of life were changing everywhere. Even to simple country people the change was apparent - But side by side with these changes, the old country civilization lingered. Traditions and customs which had lasted for centuries did not die out in a moment.' - Lark Rise to Candleford, Flora ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Sissinghurst

    A Castle's Unfinished History: Restoring Vita Sackville-West's Celebrated Estate

    par Adam Nicolson ...
    A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson on the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst.Sissinghurst is world famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended? Has its success over the last thirty years come at a price? Is Sissinghurst ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Little History Of British Gardening

    par Jenny Uglow ...
    Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did the potato seem really, really weird when it arrived on our shores?This lively 'potted' history of gardening in Britain takes us on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for decking and ornamental grasses today. It tracks down the ordinary folk who worked the earth - the apprentice boys and weeding ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Landskipping

    Painters, Ploughmen and Places

    par Anna Pavord ...
    Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first started to paint English scenery, and the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD

  • Notes from the Garden: A collection of the best garden writing from the Guardian

    par Ruth Petrie ...
    This charming guide gathers together writings on all aspects of British gardening, from the nineteenth century plant hunters such as 'China' Wilson and the Veitches, who brought seeds and specimens from every corner of the world, to the designers such as Capability Brown and Gertrude Jekyll, who set their mark on gardening styles.In pieces written by the paper's stellar list of gardening ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • Sissinghurst

    An Unfinished History (Text only)

    par Adam Nicolson ...
    A fascinating account from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, on the history of Nicolson’s own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst.Sissinghurst is world famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended? Has its success over the last thirty years come at a price? Is Sissinghurst ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Country Ways

    History Comes to Life, #1

    par Terence Kearey ...
    Collections Livre 1 - History Comes to Life
    This is a story about the passage of time, from a Norman invasion to a narrowly-avoided German one. It tells of the joys and hardships of life in rural southern England through the seasons and through the centuries. It relates how a family coped with poverty and penury, and how one day in the 1930s a daughter went off to work in a mill. In due course this particular young woman went on to become a ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $4.99 CAD Maintenant $3.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus