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Inventories of fourteen great Irish country houses, three Dublin town houses and one London town house yield remarkable insights into the lifestyle of leading families across Ireland and the households that supported them. They record in detail the goods and chattels inherited, accumulated, or acquired for enjoyment or everyday use.
The political and social worlds of France, England and Vienna during the period which began with the French Revolution and ended with the Second Empire are engagingly seen through the eyes of a highly intelligent Scotswoman, Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, who weds Charles de Flahaut, a Napoleonic general, against the wishes of her admiral father.
A remarkable private collection formed over the last thirty years is the focus of this richly illustrated book that introduces the reader to English silver from a little before the Tudor age (1485-1603) to the threshold of the Civil War (1642-51)
The first full history of Swaine Adeney Brigg, the London makers of luxury leather goods and umbrellas.
A story of the making on location of this classic film at a seventeenth-century mansion in the Norfolk countryside, starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates.
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