Holkham
The Social, Architectural and Landscape History of a Great English Country House
Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group
480 pages
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100 color plates, 40 halftones
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6 x 9 1/4
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© 2017
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Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements and Picture credits
An Explanation of Names and Titles
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 ‘A good man leaveth an inheritance’ The First Sixty Years 1601-1661
Chapter 3 Mortalities and Minorities 1661-1718
Chapter 4 Thomas Coke: ‘From the Old House to the New’ 1718-1756
Chapter 5 Building the Hall: The Materials
Chapter 6 Building the Hall: The Craftsmen
Chapter 7 Building the Hall: ‘Comfort and Convenience’
Chapter 8 Creating the Park
Chapter 9 Living in the New Hall: The First Twenty Years 1756-1776
Chapter 10 Farming, Whigs and Hospitality 1776-1842
Chapter 11 expansion and Change in the Park
Chapter 12 The Victorian Hall 1842-1909
Chapter 13 Modernising the Practical House in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chapter 14 Overview: The Village
Chapter 15 Overview: Marsh, Sand and Sea
Chapter 16 Overview: Holkham and the Public
Chapter 17 Survival and Revival 1909-2000
Appendix 1 Thomas Coke’s architecture lessons in Rome during his Grand Tour
Appendix 2 Time Line: Creating the Park
Appendix 3 Time Line: Expansion and Change in the Park
Sources in the Holkham Archive
Notes
Archival image references
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Acknowledgements and Picture credits
An Explanation of Names and Titles
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 ‘A good man leaveth an inheritance’ The First Sixty Years 1601-1661
Chapter 3 Mortalities and Minorities 1661-1718
Chapter 4 Thomas Coke: ‘From the Old House to the New’ 1718-1756
Chapter 5 Building the Hall: The Materials
Chapter 6 Building the Hall: The Craftsmen
Chapter 7 Building the Hall: ‘Comfort and Convenience’
Chapter 8 Creating the Park
Chapter 9 Living in the New Hall: The First Twenty Years 1756-1776
Chapter 10 Farming, Whigs and Hospitality 1776-1842
Chapter 11 expansion and Change in the Park
Chapter 12 The Victorian Hall 1842-1909
Chapter 13 Modernising the Practical House in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chapter 14 Overview: The Village
Chapter 15 Overview: Marsh, Sand and Sea
Chapter 16 Overview: Holkham and the Public
Chapter 17 Survival and Revival 1909-2000
Appendix 1 Thomas Coke’s architecture lessons in Rome during his Grand Tour
Appendix 2 Time Line: Creating the Park
Appendix 3 Time Line: Expansion and Change in the Park
Sources in the Holkham Archive
Notes
Archival image references
Bibliography
Index
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