Slideshow on Gothic Revival
Landscaped gardens
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- Studley Royal Park - gardensThe 18th-century landscaping, gardens and canal, the 19th-century plantations and vistas, and the neo-Gothic castle of Studley Royal Park - World Heritage Convention site
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-WörlitzSchloss Wörlitz was built in 1769-73 and it was the first neoclassical building in Germany.
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Web Resources - Gothic Revival influences
- Englightenment (European history)Pages from the Encyclopedia Britannica
- The Englightenment MovementCertain thinkers and writers, primarily in London and Paris, believed that they were more enlightened than their compatriots and set out to enlighten them.
- The Industrial Revolution - UK Parliament pagesThe Industrial Revolution, which began three hundred years ago, was a period of unprecedented technological, economic and social change that completely transformed British culture
- Britain's Industrial RevolutionArticles in BBC - History
Cotton Millionaire; Workshop of the world; All change in the Victorian age - Scientific RevolutionThe topic of scientific revolutions has become philosophically important, especially since Thomas Kuhn's account in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Dime Novels and Penny DreadfulsStanford's Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection consists of over 8,000 individual items, and includes long runs of the major dime novel series
- Newspaper, novel, bloodFleet Street, the supposed home of the dreaded barber, has long been associated with newspapers, booksellers and the printing industry.
Strawberry Hill Virtual Tour
- Strawberry Hill - Virtual tourDuring Walpole’s lifetime, Strawberry Hill was a popular tourist attraction and was shown on request between May and October, but restricted to one party of four people a day.
Strawberry Hill House
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- Strawberry Hill HouseHorace Walpole (1717 – 1797) discovered Chopp’d Straw Hall in 1747 when it was one of the last remaining sites available on the banks of the Thames in fashionable Twickenham
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Principles of the Gothic Revival in England
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Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.nlb.gov.sg/stable/988353The Principles of the Gothic Revival in EnglandJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Vol. 25, No. 4 (Dec., 1966), pp. 240-267Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the Society of Architectural Historians
The author states that revivals play perhaps a greater role in English eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture and in the decorative arts of that period, than in any other country.
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