Table of Contents

TUDOR AND STUART BRITAIN 1485 - 1714 Introduction - Britain and Its Rulers - Britain and the World: 1500 - Tudor and Stuart Monarchs 1485 - 1714 - Britain and the World: 1689 Style - Renaissance: Classical or Gothic? - Jacobean Extravagance - The Great Bed of Ware - The Baroque in England Who Led Taste? - The Court of Henry VIII - Prints as Sources for Design - The Stuart Court - The Melville Bed Fashionable Living - Great House Layouts - Textiles for the Home - Goods from the Indies - Lord and Lady Clapham What Was New? - Skills from Europe, 1500-1600 - Silver - John Dwight - The Book GEORGIAN BRITAIN 1714 - 1837 Introduction - Georgian Monarchs 1714 - 1837 - Britain and the World: 1715 - Britain and the World: 1812 Style - Palladianism - Rococo Style - Neo-classicism - Exoticism and Historicism Who Led Taste - Thomas Chippendale and the London Furniture Makers - Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95) - The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, Aristocratic Patrons - Fashion Magazine Fashionable Living - Taking Tea - Collecting and the Grand Tour - Spitalfields Sliks and the Spread of Fashion - Public Entertainments - Cultural Tourism and Appreciation of the Native Lanscape What Was New? - The Printed Illustrated Catalogue - Porcelain - Printed Textiles - Silverwares VICTORIAN BRITAIN 1837 - 1901 Introduction - Queen Victoria and Her Family - Britain and the World: 1848 - Britain and the Worl: 1901 Style - The Battle of the Styles - The Gothic Revival - Aestheticism - Arts and Crafts Who Led Taste? - The Church - The South Kensington Museum - The Great Exhibition and the Works of Industry of all Nations - William Morris - Commercial Propaganda Fashionable Living - Furnishing the Home - The Dining Table - The Railways What was New? - Christopher Dresser - Furniture - Bool Illustration and Binding - The Photograph

About the Author

Michael Snodin is Head of the Designs Section of the V & A's Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings. Publications include Sir William Chambers (V & A Publications, 1996) and Carl and Karin Larsson: Creators of the Swedish Style (V & A Publications, 1997). John Styles is Senior Tutor of the V & A / RCA History of Design course. Widely published, he is a historian specialising in the eighteenth century, and is currently historical advisor to the V & A's British Galleries team.