National Trust (Great Britain)

The National Trust book of English furniture by Geoffrey W Beard( Book )
4 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and held by 397 libraries worldwide

The National Trust book of the English house by Clive Aslet( Book )
4 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and held by 394 libraries worldwide

The National Trust guide to prehistoric and Roman Britain by Richard Muir( Book )
4 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 387 libraries worldwide

The National Trust guide by Lydia Greeves( Book )
4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 382 libraries worldwide

The National Trust guide to traditional customs of Britain by Brian Shuel( Book )
2 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 382 libraries worldwide

The National Trust book of the English garden by Richard Bisgrove( Book )
2 editions published between 1990 and 1992 in English and held by 345 libraries worldwide

Home comfort : a history of domestic arrangements in association with the National Trust by Christina Hardyment( Book )
5 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 344 libraries worldwide
'I must frankly own that, if I had known beforehand the labour which this book has entailed, I should never have been courageous enough to commence it.' So begins Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, and so perhaps should run the first line of this book. The subject of the book is probably best described as domestic archaeology, a quest for establishing exactly how our ancestors kept themselves clean, warm and well-fed. Christina Hardyment has visited over a hundred houses, most belonging to The National Trust: stately mansions and humble farmhouses, medieval manors and terraced town houses. She has squirmed through medieval drains, poked into cellars and dilapidated sculleries, clambered down ice houses and up chimneys in the interests of establishing where domestic tasks took place and how they were done. Besides offering detailed chapters on the history of the kitchen, bathroom and laundry, she investigates bakehouses and breweries, kitchen gardens and orangeries, the lamp room and the larder, the poultry yard and the still-room. Her descriptions are illuminated by much lore about the operation of mangles, the management of dovecotes and the workings of water closets that has been gleaned from housecraft manuals through the centuries, National Trust archives, diaries and novels, advice given by architects and tradesmen and the reminiscences of those who were once part of the upstairs/downstairs world that we have lost. She concludes by asserting that even these days, when machines and supermarkets seem to provide all we need in the home, we would do well to take more seriously the traditional assumption that skilled household organization is a vital element of domestichappiness.

Beastly buildings : the National Trust book of architecture for animals by Lucinda Lambton( Book )
2 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 313 libraries worldwide

Behind the scenes : domestic arrangements in historic houses by Christina Hardyment( Book )
1 edition published in 1997 in English and held by 300 libraries worldwide

Pattern design : a period design sourcebook( Book )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 291 libraries worldwide
"This book features over 500 of the best period designs, from medieval times to the 1950s. The designs are arranged by type - geometric, floral, abstract motifs and figurative. Contains designs from the NT collections taken from fabrics, textile, wallpapers, stained glass to graphics and fashion designers."--BOOK JACKET.