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Article: Hampton Court: a Social and Architectural History.(analysis )
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Simon Trurley Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2003, ISBN 0 300 10223 2, 35 [pounds sterling] (UK) or $60 (US)
Given the British passion for their country houses, monographs on individual buildings are far from rare. Among the many that are written by their squires are such classics of self-deprecation as Ralph Dutton's A Hampshire Manor (1968) and the 6th Duke of Devonshire's more ebullient Handbook to Chatsworth, republished by the Duchess of Devonshire, with an equally lively commentary by Herself, as The House (1982). But modern academic studies of individual houses are rarer than one could wish and with the development of ever more ...