Lost Victorian Britain
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Lost Victorian Britain
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Author : Gavin Stamp
language : en
Publisher: Aurum Press
Release Date : 2013-11-01
Lost Victorian Britain written by Gavin Stamp and has been published by Aurum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with Architecture categories.
These days it seems obvious that stupendous constructions like St Pancras Station should be preserved and restored. But as recently as the 1970s Glasgow’s superb St Enoch’s Hotel made way for a shopping centre, and in the 1960s St Pancras itself was also earmarked for demolition. “Victorian” was a term of abuse. Add in wartime bombing by the Luftwaffe, and town planners eager for ring roads and multi-storeys, and the destruction is shocking. This poignant, angry book, full of stunning images, chronicles the catastrophic swathe cut through Britain’s architectural heritage by the twentieth century’s sustained antipathy to the nineteenth, entirely through buildings that have disappeared. Of the 200 notable examples of Victorian architecture illustrated in this book, from the magnificent Imperial Institute in Kensington to the vast country house of Eaton Hall, not one still exists. A photograph is all we have left. As well as architectural causes célèbres like the Euston Arch and London’s Coal Exchange, Gavin Stamp turns up many lesser-known Victorian buildings, like the extraordinary Gothic battlements of Columbia Market in East London, or Chatsworth’s soaring glasshouse streamlined like a spaceship. Surprising, chastening, but also uplifting, Lost Victorian Britain is a memorable journey back into a world that should never have been lost.
Victorian Britain
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Author : Sally Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011
Victorian Britain written by Sally Mitchell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
First published in 1988, this encyclopedia serves as an overview and point of entry to the complex interdisciplinary field of Victorian studies. The signed articles, which cover persons, events, institutions, topics, groups and artefacts in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901, have been written by authorities in the field and contain bibliographies to provide guidelines for further research. The work is intended for undergraduates and the general reader, and also as a starting point for graduates who wish to explore new fields.
Anti Ugly
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Author : Gavin Stamp
language : en
Publisher: Aurum
Release Date : 2013-11-07
Anti Ugly written by Gavin Stamp and has been published by Aurum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Architecture categories.
Since 2004 Gavin Stamp, one of Britain’s most eminent and readable architectural historians, has written a monthly column for Apollo, the esteemed architecture and fine art magazine. The subject is simply whatever in design or architecture happens to take his fancy. It might be the splendid reopening of the magnificent Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station, or the dilapidation of a little-known church in Eastbourne; the much-lamented demise of the original Routemaster bus, or the colossal majesty of the airship sheds that housed the R.101. But while these pieces display a wonderful range and variety, they are unified by Stamp’s wider quest: to explore, define and champion the very Englishness of English architecture and design. When fine examples are preserved and restored, he celebrates; when they fall victim to philistine neglect – or, worse, demolition – he mourns. And when the elegant is overshadowed by the merely modish, he deplores. In Anti-Ugly, Stamp has selected the best of these ‘excursions’, producing a compulsively readable collection that builds into an eloquent, learned, trenchant and often indignant portrait of our national design heritage.
Britain S Lost Cities
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Author : Gavin Stamp
language : en
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Release Date : 2010
Britain S Lost Cities written by Gavin Stamp and has been published by White Lion Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Architecture categories.
Two hundred high-quality images of beautiful streets and buildings, destroyed by bombing or planned demolition, bring to life the stories behind Britain's lost urban heritage The destruction meted out on Britain's city center during the 20th century, by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and brutalist city planners, is legendary. Medieval churches, Tudor alleyways, Georgian terraces, and Victorian theaters vanished forever, to be replaced by a gruesome landscape of concrete office blocks and characterless shopping malls. Now architectural historian Gavin Stamp shows exactly what has been lost. Reproduced in this haunting volume are hundreds of city photographs, showing streets and buildings that are gone forever. The accompanying text traces their creation and destruction, remembering the massive campaign to save the Euston Arch, wantonly demolished in 1962, and mourning the loss of lovely medieval Coventry, which was already doomed by the city planners even before German air raids intervened. Alternately fascinating, enraging, and heartbreaking, this is an extraordinary evocation of Britain's architectural past, and a much-needed reminder of the importance of preserving heritage.
Britain S Lost Cities
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Author : Gavin Stamp
language : en
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Britain S Lost Cities written by Gavin Stamp and has been published by White Lion Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Architecture categories.
The destruction meted out on Britain's city centres during the twentieth century, by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and city-planners. This volume reproduces hundreds of photographs of cities from Plymouth to Dundee, all of streets and buildings that are gone for ever. It is also an evocation of Britain's architectural past.
England S Lost Eden Adventures In A Victorian Utopia
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Author : Philip Hoare
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2012-11-22
England S Lost Eden Adventures In A Victorian Utopia written by Philip Hoare and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-22 with History categories.
A kaleidoscopic story of myth, Spiritualism, and the Victorian search for Utopia from one of the brightest and most original non-fiction writers at work today.
Unlocking The Church
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Author : William Hadden Whyte
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Unlocking The Church written by William Hadden Whyte and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Architecture categories.
Unlocking the Church is the story of a revolution. The Victorians transformed how churches were understood, experienced, and built. Initially controversial, this revolution was so successful, that it has now been forgotten. Yet it still shapes our experience of church buildings and also helps make sense of what we should do with them now.
Fortune S Many Houses
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Author : Simon Welfare
language : en
Publisher: Atria Books
Release Date : 2021-02-16
Fortune S Many Houses written by Simon Welfare and has been published by Atria Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-16 with History categories.
A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, who tried to change the world for the better but paid a heavy price. This is a true tale of love and loss, fortune and misfortune. In the late 19th century, John and Ishbel Gordon, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, were the couple who seemed to have it all: a fortune that ran into the tens of millions, a magnificent stately home in Scotland surrounded by one of Europe’s largest estates, a townhouse in London’s most fashionable square, cattle ranches in Texas and British Columbia, and the governorships of Ireland and Canada where they lived like royalty. Together they won praise for their work as social reformers and pioneers of women’s rights, and enjoyed friendships with many of the most prominent figures of the age, from Britain’s Prime Ministers to Oliver Wendell-Holmes and P.T. Barnum and Queen Victoria herself. Yet by the time they died in the 1930s, this gilded couple’s luck had long since run out: they had faced family tragedies, scandal through their unwitting involvement in one of the “crimes of the century” and, most catastrophically of all, they had lost both their fortune and their lands. This fascinating family quest for the reason for their dramatic downfall is also a moving and colorful exploration of society in Victorian Britain and North America and an inspirational feast for history lovers.
Victorian Britain
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Victorian Britain written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with categories.
The Lost Elementary Schools Of Victorian England
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Author : Philip Gardner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-04-17
The Lost Elementary Schools Of Victorian England written by Philip Gardner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-17 with Education categories.
Published in 1984. As late as 1870, a substantial proportion of working class pupils receiving an elementary education were attending private schools, run by the working class itself, instead of schools which were publicly sponsored. Previous studies in this area have concentrated on the latter, however, the author of this study adopts a wider approach by focusing on the relation between the working-class and education, in order to demonstrate the nature of the class-cultural conflict that existed. Two main methods of investigation are employed: the pattern of working-class responses to the official educational provision are charted and the positive traditions of independent working-class educational activity are analysed. These traditions formed a part of the foundation on which resistance to official education was based. This thoroughly researched book extends our understanding of this hitherto neglected area in the history of education.