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Journal articles on the topic "Stowe House (Buckinghamshire, England)"

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McCarthy, Michael. "Soane's "Saxon" Room at Stowe." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 44, no. 2 (May 1, 1985): 129–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/990025.

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The history of the building of the Gothic Revival library and adjoining lobby and staircase in Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, from 1805 to 1807 by John Soane is discussed in detail following a sequence established by the drawings for the commission and corroborated by letters, accounts, and office records in manuscript. These documents, for the most part preserved in the Sir John Soane Museum, London, have not previously been examined or published in detail in connection with the building, and they allow a very close demonstration of the working of the Soane office. The importance of the Stowe library in Soane's oeuvre is suggested by reference to his earlier and his later works. Though he is generally considered to have been unhappy or unfortunate in his Gothic Revival work, it is argued here that this commission allowed free rein to the expression of his artistic personality and is a notable example of successful historicism. It is further argued that in its close fidelity to the historical model chosen, the Chapel of King Henry VII in Westminster Abbey, the Stowe library represents the culmination of a trend in architectural design that originated with Horace Walpole and was of the first importance to the pioneers of the Gothic Revival, especially of Soane's early patron and friend, Thomas Pitt, Lord Camelford, who had designed the house at Stowe. This commission deserves far greater attention, therefore, than it has received hitherto in the literature of the Gothic Revival. Finally, the iconographical justification of the choice of style and the appropriateness of the model selected by Soane and the Marquis of Buckingham is established by reference to the publications of the antiquary Thomas Astle, whose manuscript collection was to be housed in the new library.

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Veligorsky, Georgy A. "THE TOPONYMIC ELEMENT “-END” IN THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE “ESTATE” THESAURUS: SEMANTICS AND FUNCTION (English-Russian context)." Vestnik of Kostroma State University 29, no. 3 (December 21, 2023): 113–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2023-29-3-113-121.

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the history of the toponymic element “-end”, appearing in the names of many estates, both real (for example, the place Dichende in Northumberland, the village of Bourne End in Buckinghamshire, etc.), and literary ones (for example, Freeman’s End from the novel “Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life” by George Eliot (1871–1872), Howards End from the novel of the same name by Edward Morgan Forster (1910), Mole End from “The Wind in the Willows” (1908) by Kenneth Grahame, Bag End from John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s fantasy novel “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again” (1937), etc.). Attention in the study is paid to non-obvious, “latentˮ, including metaphysical, connotations of this concept (house “on the outskirts”, “dead end”, “goal”, “appointment”, etc.). The article specifically considers the genesis of the “-end” element, which goes deep into the history of the English estate (in particular, it is mentioned in the “Domesday Book”, the first land census of England, undertaken in the 11th century by William the Conqueror).

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Anderson, Jocelyn. "Remaking the Space: the Plan and the Route in Country-House Guidebooks from 1770 to 1815." Architectural History 54 (2011): 195–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0066622x00004044.

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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, country-house tourism became increasingly popular in England. By 1770, hundreds of tourists were visiting the country’s greatest estates every summer. The nature of the attraction varied from house to house. Some, such as Kedleston Hall and Stowe, were considered ‘elegant’ modern buildings, while others, such as Blenheim Palace, were already seen as historical sites. Although country-house visiting as a concept dated back to the seventeenth century, there had never been so many tourists, nor such a variety of them. While one needed to be relatively wealthy and genteel in order to travel and gain admission to great houses, tourists included not only those who had their own estates but also those who could only be spectators. Early country-house tourists have been examined by a number of historians, but the ways in which the houses themselves were presented have hitherto been little studied. A better understanding of this manner of presentation illuminates the nature of tourists’ experiences and how the country house itself began to be identified as an attraction during this period. In essence, in an effort to cope with the influx of visitors, country-house owners began to formalize the terms under which their estates were open to the public. As part of this process, houses were metaphorically ‘remade’ in order to function as tourist attractions as well as private residences. It was not enough for owners simply to allow entry. They had to decide what would be shown to visitors, and how to provide visitors with information about the house and its contents. At first, these problems were solved by instructing housekeepers to guide visitors, but, as certain houses became exceptionally popular, a new practice developed: publishing guidebooks. This article considers the methodologies by which the interior spaces of country houses were remade in guidebooks (a type of re-presentation that can still be observed in many properties that are open to the public today), as well as the effects of this process.

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Burt, Richard. "Social Housing Provision in Rural Areas: Lessons learned from a Historic Analysis of Council House Building in a Small Town in Rural England." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1101, no. 5 (November 1, 2022): 052022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1101/5/052022.

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Abstract History shows that one successful method of addressing poverty and inequality is by providing social housing. In England during its post war peak, local authorities, such as borough, urban and rural district councils, built thousands of “council” houses. The common perception of the “council” estate is of huge developments such as in Beacontree built by the London County Council, but construction took place on a smaller scale in rural districts and much can be learned from studying how social housing was provided in these areas. Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire is an excellent example of council housing provision before and after WW2. Archival data was used to analyze and evaluate the council house-building program from 1919 to 1953. Beginning in 1919 with 10 workers cottages built under the powers of the Housing and Town Planning Act 1919 and ending in 1953 with the erection of 164 “Wimpey” no-fines concrete houses, the Wycombe Rural District Council built 790 dwellings. By the time of the 1961 Census after the WRDC postwar building program effectively ended in 1953 council houses accoutned for about 40% of the homes in the town and the population doubled since 1921. Records show construction of the dwellings helped develop a thriving local construction economy fueled by procurement with local builders, constructing as few as two units. Only toward the end of the building period were contracts let in large quantities when non-traditional construction methods were adopted.

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Clarricoates, Rhiannon, and Eleni Kotoula. "The potential of Reflectance Transformation Imaging in Architectural Paint Research and the study of historic interiors: a case study from Stowe House, England." Journal of the Institute of Conservation 42, no. 2 (May 4, 2019): 135–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19455224.2019.1605919.

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ROSE, EDWARD P. F. "LAWRENCE RICKARD WAGER (1904–1965): A DISTINGUISHED GEOLOGIST WHO HELPED TO PIONEER AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION FOR ALLIED FORCES IN WORLD WAR II." Earth Sciences History 38, no. 1 (April 1, 2019): 59–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/1944-6178-38.1.59.

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ABSTRACT ‘Bill’ Wager, after undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge, became a lecturer at the University of Reading in southern England in 1929. He was granted leave in the 1930s to participate in lengthy expeditions that explored the geology of Greenland, an island largely within the Arctic Circle. With friends made on those expeditions, he became in June 1940 an early recruit to the Photographic Development Unit of the Royal Air Force that pioneered the development of aerial photographic interpretation for British armed forces. He was quickly appointed to lead a ‘shift’ of interpreters. The unit moved in 1941 from Wembley in London to Danesfield House in Buckinghamshire, known as Royal Air Force Medmenham, to become the Central Interpretation Unit for Allied forces—a ‘secret’ military intelligence unit that contributed significantly to Allied victory in World War II. There Wager led one of three ‘shifts’ that carried out the ‘Second Phase’ studies in a three-phase programme of interpretation that became a standard operating procedure. Promoted in 1941 to the rank of squadron leader in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, he was given command of all ‘Second Phase’ work. Sent with a detachment of photographic interpreters to the Soviet Union in 1942, he was officially ‘mentioned in a Despatch’ on return to England. By the end of 1943 the Central Interpretation Unit had developed into a large organization with an experienced staff, so Wager was allowed to leave Medmenham in order to become Professor of Geology in the University of Durham. He resigned his commission in July 1944. Appointed Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford in 1950, he died prematurely from a heart attack in 1965, best remembered for his work on the igneous rocks of the Skaergaard intrusion in Greenland and an attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1933.

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Books on the topic "Stowe House (Buckinghamshire, England)"

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Stowe House. Paul Holberton Publishing, 2003.

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Stowe House: Saving an Architectural Masterpiece. Scala Publishers, Limited, 2018.

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Morris, Nick. Essential Stowe Hou. Scala Publishers, Limited, 2015.

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Skywood House The Architecture Of Graham Phillips. Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2014.

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Richard Plant Buckingham and Chandos. Catalogue of the Library Removed from Stowe House, Buckinghamshire: Which Will Be Sold at Auction by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & Co. - 8th January, 1849, ... and ... 29th January, 1849 ... . --. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2021.

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Book chapters on the topic "Stowe House (Buckinghamshire, England)"

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Greenblatt, Stephen. "Shakespeare and the Exorcists." In Shakespearean Negotiations, 94–128. Oxford University PressOxford, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198122272.003.0004.

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Abstract Between the spring of 1585 and the summer of 1586, a group of English Catholic priests led by the Jesuit William Weston, alias Father Edmunds, conducted a series of spectacular exorcisms, principally in the house of a recusant gentleman, Sir George Peckham of Denham, Buckinghamshire. The priests were outlaws-by an act of 1585 the mere presence in England of a Jesuit or seminary priest constituted high treason-and those who sheltered them were guilty of a felony, punishable by death. Yet the exorcisms, though clandestine, drew large crowds, almost certainly in the hundreds, and must have been common knowledge to hundreds more. In 16o3, long after the arrest and punishment of those involved, Samuel Harsnett, then chaplain to the bishop of London, wrote a detailed account of the cases, based on sworn statements taken from four of the demoniacs and one of the priests. It has been recognized since the eighteenth century that Shakespeare was reading Harsnett’s book, A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures, as he was writing King Lear.

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