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Potted History

Catherine Horwood
Potted History Book PDF

Author : Catherine Horwood
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : House plants
ISBN : 0711228000

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Potted History by Catherine Horwood Pdf

There are plenty of books on how to look after houseplants but no one has shown us how, when and why these plants came to be found in our homes. In this fascinating book we learn how potted plants are as subject to fashion as pieces of furniture. For the Victorians it was the aspidistra in the front parlor; for us it is the orchid in the designer loft. We find that Wedgwood created a market for special bulb pots and that some of Conran's early designs were for houseplant containers. Then there is the story of mignonette - a modest plant but once prized in every home for its intoxicating scent. Now that scent is lost to us for ever. Catherine Horwood's novel combination of social history, plant history and the history of interior design is intriguing. Her illustrations come from a variety of unusual sources since potted plants may be found in many unexpected corners.

Darlington: A Potted History

Colin Wilkinson
Darlington A Potted History Book PDF

Author : Colin Wilkinson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781398109940

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Darlington: A Potted History by Colin Wilkinson Pdf

An accessible history of Darlington from prehistory to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.

Cork: A Potted History

Kieran McCarthy
Cork A Potted History Book PDF

Author : Kieran McCarthy
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781398114326

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Cork: A Potted History by Kieran McCarthy Pdf

An accessible history of Cork from its beginnings to the present day, following a walking trail highlighting the city’s significant events and people.

Southampton: A Potted History

Martin Brisland
Southampton A Potted History Book PDF

Author : Martin Brisland
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781398108196

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Southampton: A Potted History by Martin Brisland Pdf

An accessible history of Southampton from its beginnings to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.

Rotherham: A Potted History

James Barker
Rotherham A Potted History Book PDF

Author : James Barker
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781398114968

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Rotherham: A Potted History by James Barker Pdf

An accessible history of Rotherham from its beginnings to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.

Wakefield: A Potted History

Paul L. Dawson
Wakefield A Potted History Book PDF

Author : Paul L. Dawson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781398107496

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Wakefield: A Potted History by Paul L. Dawson Pdf

An accessible history of Wakefield from prehistory to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.

Bicester: A Potted History

Matthew Hathaway
Bicester A Potted History Book PDF

Author : Matthew Hathaway
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781398117082

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Bicester: A Potted History by Matthew Hathaway Pdf

An accessible history of Bicester from pre-history to the present day highlighting the town’s significant events and people.

Preston: A Potted History

Keith Johnson
Preston A Potted History Book PDF

Author : Keith Johnson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781398106130

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Preston: A Potted History by Keith Johnson Pdf

An accessible history of Preston from prehistory to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.

Whitby: A Potted History

Colin Wilkinson
Whitby A Potted History Book PDF

Author : Colin Wilkinson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781398107472

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Whitby: A Potted History by Colin Wilkinson Pdf

An accessible history of Whitby from prehistory to the present day highlighting the town’s significant events and people.

Potted History

Catherine Horwood
Potted History Book PDF

Author : Catherine Horwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910258946

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Potted History by Catherine Horwood Pdf

In this fascinating book we learned how potted plants are as much subject to fashion as pieces of furniture. For the Victorians, it was the aspidistra in the front parlour, the Edwardians loved a palm, and, for today's millennials, no home is complete without the ubiquitous fiddle-leaf fig. This book show that there is little new when it comes to plants in the home. In the mid-18th century, Wedgwood created a market for special bulb pots and in the 1950s, some of Terence Conran's earliest designs were for houseplant containers. Across the ages, the choice of potted plants has been influenced by the layout of houses, the levels of dirt and pollution and the equipment to hand. Now, with so much choice, we seem happy to treat houseplants as disposables. This book gives a better understanding of the miracles that were once achieved with indoor plant displays, inspired by Sir Hugh Platt's 1608 vision of a garden 'within doores'. This new edition has been revised with new material added to bring the history of the houseplant and its massive explosion in popularity right up to date.

A Short History of Celebrity

Fred Inglis
A Short History of Celebrity Book PDF

Author : Fred Inglis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400834396

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A Short History of Celebrity by Fred Inglis Pdf

A history of celebrity from Byron to Beckham Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life—and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's Hollywood. Vividly written and brimming with fascinating stories of figures whose lives mark important moments in the history of celebrity, this book explains how fame has changed over the past two-and-a-half centuries. Starting with the first modern celebrities in mid-eighteenth-century London, including Samuel Johnson and the Prince Regent, the book traces the changing nature of celebrity and celebrities through the age of the Romantic hero, the European fin de siècle, and the Gilded Age in New York and Chicago. In the twentieth century, the book covers the Jazz Age, the rise of political celebrities such as Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin, and the democratization of celebrity in the postwar decades, as actors, rock stars, and sports heroes became the leading celebrities. Arguing that celebrity is a mirror reflecting some of the worst as well as some of the best aspects of modern history itself, Inglis considers how the lives of the rich and famous provide not only entertainment but also social cohesion and, like morality plays, examples of what—and what not—to do. This book will interest anyone who is curious about the history that lies behind one of the great preoccupations of our lives. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

A Short History of English Literature

Harry Blamires
A Short History of English Literature Book PDF

Author : Harry Blamires
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415050784

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A Short History of English Literature by Harry Blamires Pdf

Surveys the main periods, movements, figures, the achievements of British literature from Chaucer's time to the 1980s, emphasizing each writer's major work and the continuity of tradition within the genres

An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Gardens

Hardie Alison
An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Gardens Book PDF

Author : Hardie Alison
Publisher : Shanghai Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938368882

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An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Gardens by Hardie Alison Pdf

There are many books published in English on Chinese gardens, but the majority are primarily picture books with little informative content. With a large number of illustrations of Chinese gardens, ancient paintings, block prints, and other artefacts, this book is a social history of Chinese gardens and focuses on how gardens have functioned and been used in Chinese society through the ages. Apart from the aesthetic or philosophical aspects of Chinese gardens, you may see how gardens functioned as real estate, how they gave opportunities of employment to skilled artisans, how they opened up outdoor space to both elite and lower-class women, how they allowed men of different social classes and of different ethnicities to interact and gain mutual benefit: in short, how the existence of gardens exerted an influence on society as a whole. At the same time, the reader can find how the wider society, and even socio-economic changes beyond China's own borders, had an impact on how gardens in China developed.

New Short History of the Catholic Church

Norman Tanner
New Short History of the Catholic Church Book PDF

Author : Norman Tanner
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780860124559

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New Short History of the Catholic Church by Norman Tanner Pdf

A new volume to replace The Short History of the Catholic Church (Burns&Oates) - now severely out of date.

Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Porcelain

Guimei Yang,Alison Hardie
Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Porcelain Book PDF

Author : Guimei Yang,Alison Hardie
Publisher : Shanghai Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781938368806

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Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Porcelain by Guimei Yang,Alison Hardie Pdf

This book provides a condensed, comprehensible, but complete overview of the history of Chinese porcelain.By studying the most notable characteristics of porcelain in different periods throughout history, it explores the evolution of the great kilns, and describes the influence of factors such as social and economic development, political change, and foreign cultures. Each one of these affected porcelain's shapes, uses, colors, styles, patterns, and other features in unique ways. An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Porcelain explains the cultural implications and the aesthetic and philosophical concepts which underlie the porcelain we know today.The origins of Chinese porcelain lie as far back as the Shang (1600&–1050BCE) and Zhou (1046&–256BCE) dynasties. One of the treasures of Chinese civilization, porcelain was first fashioned in the five great kiln-sites at the beginning of the second millennium, then evolved to form the splendid blue-and-white of the Yuan, before reaching its apogee in the Ming (1368&–1644AD) and Qing (1644&–1912AD) dynasties.An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Porcelain makes extensive use of archeological material from excavations at historic kilns and grave sites undertaken since 1949, as well as the results of new research. It presents readers with images of outstanding examples of different types of porcelain—including celadon, blanc de Chine, famille rose, and blue-and-white ware.