The gentry
stories of the English
by Adam Nicolson
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It is the gentry that have made England what it was and, to a degree, still is. England was a country dominated by its middling families, rooted on their land, in their locality, with a healthy interest in turning a profit from their property and a deep distrust of the centralised state. This riveting new book concentrates on fourteen families with a time-span from 1400 to the present day; The Gentry presents a convincing argument on what has created the distinctive English character but with the sheer readability ofan epic novel.
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Gentry: six hundred years of a peculiarly English class
2012, HarperPress, HarperCollins Publishers
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0007335504 9780007335503
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The gentry: stories of the English
2012, W.F. Howes, Clipper Large Print
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1407496832 9781407496832
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Originally published : London : HarperPress, 2011.
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Covers the history of the English landed gentry over a six-hundred year period between 1410-2010.
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