The eccentric building Redcliffe Towers, built on the edge of a cliff in Devon, is now a well-known landmark in the town of Paignton. It…
The Afterlife of Objects: Anglo-Indian Ivory Furniture in Britain The term ‘ivory’ describes the teeth or tusks of elephants and other mammals, including the Asiatic…
An Intangible Legacy: The Scarth Family of London and Ilford The Scarths of London and Ilford were a family with two generations of trade…
The provisional schedule for the ‘Travel and the Country House: places, cultures and practice’ conference (at which Professor Margot Finn is giving a keynote lecture)…
Many experts consider Chinese wallpaper to be a defining feature of the British country house interior. According to Oliver Impey, it is one of the…
Aberglasney was purchased at the turn of the 19th century by an East India Company man, Thomas Philipps (c.1749-1824). The Aberglasney case study highlights the…
Towards the end of the eighteenth century (c.1789), the Middleton Hall estate in the parish of Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, south-west Wales was purchased by a former…
Registration for our end-of-project conference ‘Objects, Families, Homes: British Material Cultures in Global Context’ is now closed.
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