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The Truth About Cottages - A History and an Illustrated Guide to 50 Types of English Cottage (Paperback)
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The Truth About Cottages - A History and an Illustrated Guide to 50 Types of English Cottage (Paperback)
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The old cottages of Britain are amongst the country's best-loved
treasures. Threatened on all sides - whether by the dilapidation of
woodworm and dry-rot or the schemes of planners and developers -
they are fiercely protected by all those who live in (or simply
dream of living in) a country cottage. Yet few have any idea about
what life in a cottage was really like both within and outside our
living memory."The Truth About Cottages" is a small classic - in
the words of the "Sunday Times", 'required reading for cottage
addicts; true scholarship, engrossing history and a real eye-opener
for romantics.' It tells the remarkable story of cottage life since
the seventeenth century, often using the words of the people who
built the cottages or lived in them. For example, there is the
instance of the horse that shared a nineteenth-century, single-room
cottage with its twelve human inhabitants, as well as the
documented tribulations of rural labourers and barefoot urban
dwellers alike, whose homes were as unsanitary and cold as they
were picturesque. The book goes further, to provide an informative
illustrated guide to the fifty main types of cottage, dating from
the fifteenth century. It remains the ideal companion for explorers
of these gems.
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