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Buckingham Palace is one of the most familiar buildings in the world, but who knows the real tales hidden behind its ceremonial gates? Who was the witch that once lived in the royal courtyard? How could courtesans once have plied their trade in front of the present royal windows? How dare a prime minister call the palace a monstrous insult to the nation? This text presents a detailed exploration of the ordinary and sometimes extraordinary people who owned or lived on the land now occupied by the Palace, and of the royal occupants who later inhabited it. The book reveals how Buckingham Palace came to be the place it is today, from the time when it probably formed the escape route from a Roman battle nearly 2,000 years ago, to the establishment of the first gentleman's house there in the 17th century, and on into a checkered royal history, which includes an ambitious Saxon queen and James I's plan to found an English silk industry in the Palace gardens.
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Andrij Usztan
reviewed Strange History of Buckingham Palace on December 12, 2012
Strange History of Buckingham Palace
This is a book for the general public'lots of illustrations and easy read for those unfamiliar with building preservation. 350 pages on colonial mansions, barns, muskrat-skinning sheds, etc. in this book about a "region of regions"'the Delaware Valley. Delaware-centric, as the two contributors worked their at the Center for Historic Architecture and Design (in collaboration with HABS), but it does include regional examples from NJ, PA, MD, and VA as well. This is not style-obsessed but instead focuses on change over time in looks and use (an archaeological approach): not looking for purity but dissecting alterations. It argues for the study of buildings to better understand people: "how they saw themselves, their neighbors, and their workday world in all its complexity'and how they projected that sense of self and society into the substance of their environment" (350).
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