The Englishman's Castle: A History of House, Large and Small, in Town and Country from AD 100 to the Present Day

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Imagine how the monks worked and prayed as you drink in the scents of the serene herb garden with its fragrant physic, household and culinary beds. Built after the battle of Hastings in 1066 by William de Warenne, a follower of William the Conquerer, the castle was fortified over generations until it began to fall into ruin in the mid 1300’s. I made this quilt for a show where the theme was House and Home; I immediately thought of the phrase 'An Englishman's Home is His Castle. Ingram discovers that his mistress, Jill, one of the stars of his show, is secretly Jewish and a member of a clandestine resistance movement.

Cards, Christmas Cards, Books and Unframed prints normally dispatched either same or next working day.Our Englishman’s castle appears in the background – complete with replacement windows and satellite dish – and his sports car is parked in front. The protocols form part of each employee's employment contract and any breach of them may be considered a disciplinary matter. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. ATTRACTIVE D/J WITH ILLUSTRATION EXTENDING TO REAR IN VG CONDITION SHOWING JUST VERY SLIGHT RUBS/CHIP TO TOP OF SPINE.

Until the 17th century, noble families travelled tirelessly between the residences they owned, carrying their furnishings with them.There were Tudor sieges, such as that of Cooling in 1554, and there were even attempts in some Georgian and Victorian residences to create defences that might at least resist an industrial mob. I would expect countries where GDP per square metre of land is high to have more expensive and therefore smaller homes than countries where GDP per square metre of land is low. Nicely illustrated architectural history of the house, in all its manifestetions of the English home.