Name: The English House. A History in Eight Buildings
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Author: Dan Cruickshank
ISBN: 9781804941546

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The English House. A History in Eight Buildings

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Physical Book

Publisher

Penguin

Author

Dan Cruickshank

Year

2026

Pages

512

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.80 x 12.90 cm

ISBN13

9781804941546

The English House. A History in Eight Buildings

Dan Cruickshank (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "The English House. A History in Eight Buildings"

This is the story of the superbly elegant early eighteenth-century Pallant House in Chichester. It’s the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitafields, built for a Huguenot silk-weaver, ultimately a synagogue. It’s also the story of – among others – a row of two-up, two-downs in Toxteth, a block of flats in London’s East End, and what Ideal Home’s magazine described in 1926 as Britain’s ‘first modern house’ – in Northampton. Together these buildings reveal the ways in which English homes have developed and changed over the past few centuries. At the same time, as Dan Cruickshank shows, they have much to tell us about the lives of their first occupants: their aspirations, their struggles, their place within society and relationship with their local community. The English House brilliantly weaves these two strands together, blending architectural and social history to create a series of brilliantly observed portraits of fascinating buildings.