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Author : Ernest Law
Release : 1897
Genre : Hampton Court (S.C.).
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Book Synopsis A Short History of Hampton Court by : Ernest Law
Download or read book A Short History of Hampton Court written by Ernest Law. This book was released on 1897. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Thurley
Release : 2003
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Hampton Court by : Simon Thurley
Download or read book Hampton Court written by Simon Thurley. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book takes as its starting point the argument that the only way to understand fully a building such as Hampton Court is to set it in the political and social context of its time and to explore the lives and motivations of its builders. The picture that emerges is on the one hand intensely personal - one of architects and builders fulfilling the whims of kings and princes. On the other hand, it is bureaucratic: Hampton Court is revealed first as the royal household, then as a palace claimed by grace-and-favour residents and finally, by visitors and tourists as their own. The history of the building is taken right up to the beginning of the twenty-first century. The twentieth-century story of Hampton Court is one of conservation and of changing attitudes towards opening up the complex to the public - it covers everything from the agonising discussions as to whether to build public lavatories to an account of the private enterprise that caused an octogenarian to make a personal fortune out of opening the maze to the public. It includes also the story of the terrible fire of 1986 and its aftermath. Social history and architectural history sit side by side in this intriguing account. New and important attributions are made to the architects Hugh May, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Talman, Colen Campbell and Edward Blore amongst others. Moreover, the palace and its setting are placed in their European context and their long-term architectural significance is gauged. The book is lavishly illustrated with original paintings, prints and drawings, while a specially commissioned suite of plans and reconstructions reveals the evolving form of the buildings.
Author : Ernest Phillip Alphonse Law
Release : 1924
Genre : Palaces
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Book Synopsis A Short History of Hampton Court in Tudor and Stuart Times by : Ernest Phillip Alphonse Law
Download or read book A Short History of Hampton Court in Tudor and Stuart Times written by Ernest Phillip Alphonse Law. This book was released on 1924. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest Philip Alphonse Law
Release : 2013-09
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Book Synopsis A Short History of Hampton Court by : Ernest Philip Alphonse Law
Download or read book A Short History of Hampton Court written by Ernest Philip Alphonse Law. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...Court. "The King was much concerned at the harshness of it, but promised an answer as soon as the weight of business would permit, and desired there should be no publishing that declaration till they had received his answer to it." To this request, however, they paid no attention; but immediately blazoned it throughout the kingdom--a course Charles took as an act of great disrespect to himself. Three days after, perhaps to counteract, to some extent, its effect among the citizens of London, he sent for seven of the City aldermen to Hampton Court; and in response to a petition they brought with them, that he should come up and reside in London, "whereby the trade of the City, which had been so much hindered by the King's long absence in Scotland, might be revived," he promised to leave Hampton 1 As to Henry VIII.'s inclosure of the Chase of Hampton Court, and its subsequent dechasing in the reign of Edward VI., see ante p. 103-4. Court in a day or two, and come to Whitehall; while, "to express his extraordinary love to the City," he made them all knights. By such actions does he seem to have thought, in his delusion, that he could stem the tide of disaffection among his subjects, an opinion which was certainly shared by the courtier-scribe who records the fact, and who exclaims, in a fervour of loyal enthusiasm, "What encouragement can subjects have more to love and obey a King than to have such favour and love shown by a King, for whose prosperous, happy and successive reign, it behoves us all to pray: else there is no question to be made, but that judgment will be showered down upon our heads by the Heavenly King, for not loving so good a heavenly King." Whether or not his subjects in general were...
Author : Lucy Worsley
Release : 2005
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Hampton Court Palace by : Lucy Worsley
Download or read book Hampton Court Palace written by Lucy Worsley. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worsley and Souden's book tells the story of one of the finest palaces in Europe, covering the original buildings of Henry VIII's reign and the baroque additions by Sir Christopher Wren, as well as the famous Gardens. It also reveals details of palace life for both the monarchy and those 'below stairs'.
