The English Model Farm: Building the Agricultural Ideal, 1700-1914 - Softcover

Wade Martins, Susanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0953863050 ISBN 13: 9780953863051

Publisher: Windgather Press, 2002

Synopsis

During the Agricultural Revolution, the landowners of Britain constructed an enormous range of picturesque or classical buildings on their farms, inspired by Enlightenment ideals. These model farms, a phenomenon unique to Britain, are a significant yet largely undiscovered aspect of our heritage. This book is richly illustrated with interior and exterior photographs, most of them specially commissioned, as well as plans, paintings and historic photographs. It examines the architecture and landscape context of the farmsteads themselves and considers the motives of the people who built them, drawing on the first comprehensive national survey of model farms, recently completed by English Heritage.

About this title

About the Author:

Susanna Wade Martins is a research fellow at the Centre of East Anglian Studies, University of East Anglia and a past chairman of the Historic Farm Buildings Group. She has published widely on agricultural and estate history with a special emphasis on farm buildings and the landscape.

About this edition

• Publisher: Windgather Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0953863050
• ISBN 13: 9780953863051
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250