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The English House: A History in Eight Buildings (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781529152456)
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xThis is the story of the superbly elegant early eighteenth-century Pallant House in Chichester.
It's the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitalfields, built for a Huguenot silk-weaver and later transformed into a synagogue. It's also the story of a row of modest two-up, two-down houses in Toxteth, a block of flats in London's East End, and what Ideal Home magazine in 1926 called Britain's "first modern house" -- in Northampton. Together, these buildings reveal how English homes have evolved and adapted over the past few centuries. At the same time, as historian Dan Cruickshank shows, they offer intimate glimpses into the lives of their first occupants -- their ambitions, hardships, and place within their communities. The English House masterfully intertwines architectural and social history, creating a vivid and deeply human portrait of the spaces that have shaped English life.Author: Dan Cruickshank
ISBN-10: 1529152453
ISBN-13: 9781529152456
Publisher: Cornerstone Press
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2026
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
By Dan Cruickshank
xDan 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 programs Civilization 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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