BOOK TALK | Coutu, Stobart, Lindfield- Politics and the English Country Hou

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Join Professor Jon Stobart and Dr Peter Lindfield, as well as contributor Dr Oliver Cox for a lecture on how the political significance of the 18th century country house forms a vital part of the story at Wentworth Woodhouse. 

Price: £10.00 (in person) or £6.00 (online live stream)

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Country Houses & Politics in the 18th Century - Wentworth Woodhouse

Joan Coutu is professor of art history and visual culture at the University of Waterloo and the author of Then and Now: Collecting and Classicism in Eighteenth-Century England. (Not present at event)

Jon Stobart is professor of social history at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Peter Lindfield is lecturer in history at Manchester Metropolitan University.

about the book

This collection focuses on the relationship between the country house and the mutable nature of British politics in the eighteenth century. Essays explore the country house as a stage for politicking, a vehicle for political advancement, a symbol of party allegiance or political values, and a setting for appropriate lifestyles. Initially the exclusive purview of the landed aristocracy, politics increasingly came to be played out in the open, augmented by the emergence of career politicians - usually untitled members of the patriciate - and men of new money, much of it created on Caribbean plantations or in the employ of the East India Company. Politics and the English Country House, 1688-1800 reveals how, during this period of profound change, the country house remained a constant. The country house was the definitive tangible manifestation of social standing and, for the political class, owning one became almost an imperative.