ENGLISH HOUSE: A HISTORY IN EIGHT BUILDINGS (HB)

In this book, Dan Cruickshank blends architectural and social history through a series of brilliantly observed portraits of fascinating buildings. It features an elegant early eighteenth-century Pallant House in Chichester and the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitafields, built for a Huguenot silk-weaver, ultimately a synagogue. It’s also the story of – among others – a row of two-up, two-downs in Toxteth, a block of flats in London’s East End, and what Ideal Home’s magazine described in 1926 as Britain’s ‘first modern house’ – in Northampton.