Travel and the British Country House

Jon Stobart is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University

• Introduction: travel and the British country house – Jon Stobart1 ‘Antiquity mad’: the influence of continental travel on the Irish houses of Frederick Hervey, the Earl Bishop, 1730–1803 – Rebecca Campion2 From Rome to Stourhead and thence to Rome again: the phenomenon of the eighteenth-century English landscape garden – John Harrison3 Virtual travel and virtuous objects: chinoiserie and the country house – Emile de Bruijn4 Gentlemen tourists in the early eighteenth century: the travel journals of William Hanbury and John Scattergood – Rosie MacArthur5 A foreign appreciation of English country houses and castles: Dutch travel accounts on proto museums visited en route, 1683–1855 – Hanneke Ronnes and Renske Koster6 ‘Worth viewing by travellers’: Arthur Young and country house picture collections in the late eighteenth century – Jocelyn Anderson7 ‘Enjoying country life to the full – only the English know how to do that!’: appreciation of the British country house by Hungarian aristocratic travellers – Kristof Fatsar8 Magnificent and mundane: transporting people and goods to the country house, c.1730–1800 – Jon Stobart9 On the road (and the Thames) with William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, 1597–1623 – Peter Edwards10 ‘No lady could do this’: navigating gender and collecting objects in India and Scotland, c.1810–50 – Ellen FilorIndex