The country house revealed : a secret history of the British ancestral home
Spanning the architectural history of the country house, from the Tudor ebullience of East Barsham Manor, the beauty and ingenuity of Hawksmoor's Easton Neston, the palatial Georgian sweep of Wentworth Woodhouse.
"Spanning the architectural history of the country house, from the Tudor ebullience of East Barsham Manor, the beauty and ingenuity of Hawksmoor's Easton Neston, the palatial Georgian sweep of Wentworth Woodhouse."@en
"Historian Dan Cruickshank is invited through the closed doors of six of Britain's greatest private houses in an illuminating and surprising journey through our architectural history. Dan shows how the story of each house tells the social and economic history of Britain, each built on an economic crest or crash and uniquely expressive of its creator's aims, strengths and frailties; the crystallisation of a ruling class at a moment in time."@en
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