An exploration of the evolution of the quintessentially English country house.
Stephanie L. Barczewski Book order (chronological)
Country Houses and the British Empire, 1700-1930
- 230 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries -- .
Titanic. A night remembered
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Recounts the personal stories of ten Titanic victims, including Captain Edward Smith, builder Thomas Andrews, wealthy John Jacob Astor, and bandmaster William Hartley, in a volume that traces their careers and the events that brought them on board.