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Travel and the British country house
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04 October 2017

HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, European history, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social and cultural history, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings, General and world history
Introduction: travel and the British country house – Jon Stobart
1 ‘Antiquity mad’: the influence of continental travel on the Irish houses of Frederick Hervey, the Earl Bishop, 1730–1803 – Rebecca Campion
2 From Rome to Stourhead and thence to Rome again: the phenomenon of the eighteenth-century English landscape garden – John Harrison
3 Virtual travel and virtuous objects: chinoiserie and the country house – Emile de Bruijn
4 Gentlemen tourists in the early eighteenth century: the travel journals of William Hanbury and John Scattergood – Rosie MacArthur
5 A foreign appreciation of English country houses and castles: Dutch travel accounts on proto museums visited en route, 1683–1855 – Hanneke Ronnes and Renske Koster
6 ‘Worth viewing by travellers’: Arthur Young and country house picture collections in the late eighteenth century – Jocelyn Anderson
7 ‘Enjoying country life to the full – only the English know how to do that!’: appreciation of the British country house by Hungarian aristocratic travellers – Kristof Fatsar
8 Magnificent and mundane: transporting people and goods to the country house, c.1730–1800 – Jon Stobart
9 On the road (and the Thames) with William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, 1597–1623 – Peter Edwards
10 ‘No lady could do this’: navigating gender and collecting objects in India and Scotland, c.1810–50 – Ellen Filor
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