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==Episode 1==


==Historic Houses Commemorating People==
Over 13,000 years of homes, from 11,000 BC to the 1600s. Phil reveals 13 homes of all shapes, sizes and styles, from primitive prehistoric pads to houses built as status symbols.


At Chimni we are mainly focussed on house history, architecture and building styles, so our focus in this section is on house museums that celebrate and explain different periods of house building. However, dotted around the country are a series of wonderful house museums celebrating famous people and their work.  We have listed some of our favourites below:
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==Episode 2==
 
Phil tells the story of Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries through more amazing homes, from lavish properties to revolutionary social housing
 
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==Episode 3==
 
In Episode 3 Phil Spencer examines how the Industrial Revolution completely changed Britain and left us with homes in Napoleonic forts, canal boats and city tenements.
 
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File:RegencyTownHouse-Brighton.jpg|Home 28 - A Grade 1 listed Regency townhouse on Brighton's Brunswick Square from the mid-1820s. See the Regency Townhouse one of Chimni's [[Historic House Museums]] celebrating the architecture and social history of Brighton & Hove between 1780 and 1850.  http://www.rth.co.uk
 
File:Tower23-Dymchurch.jpg|Home 29 is ’Tower 23’ a Napoleonic era [[Martello Towers|Martello Tower]] converted into a family home at Dymchurch on the Romney Marshes in Kent.
 
Home 30 Budgenor Lodge – 42 apartments built into the old dormitories of a converted workhouse in Midhurst West Sussex


Sir John Soane Museum - http://www.soane.org/
File:west-usk-lighthouse.jpg|Home 31 A converted lighthouse at West Usk in Newport, South Wales built in 1821 originally designed by the eminent engineer James Walker


Dickens Museum - https://dickensmuseum.com/
Home 35 Canal Boat homes 35
Home 36 Harbourside House, Weymouth
Home ??  1463 Anne Hathaway’s Cottage


Dylan Thomas' Boat House http://www.dylanthomasboathouse.com/
Home 38  Cottiers Cabin Omagh


Dr Jenner's House - http://www.jennermuseum.com/
File:BlackMill-Lincoln.jpg|Home 39 - The Black Mill’ windmill, Lincoln, England originally built in 1840 for the Squires family


Jane Austen's House - http://www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk/about/about.htm
Home 40 - Glasgow ‘Tenement’ flats from the 1850. Similar to mansion blocks, a tenement looks like a street of terraced houses, but were built from the beginning as separate flats.


The Brontë's Parsonage,  Haworth, West Yorks. https://www.bronte.org.uk/about-us
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Robert Burns House  -http://www.burnsmuseum.org.uk/
==Episode 4==


Virginia Woolf's 'Monks House' - http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/monks-house/
Phil looks at the three decades of homes between 1850 and 1880, when working class slums were transformed into decent family abodes


Winston Churchill's 'Chartwell'  http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/chartwell/
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Benjamin Franklin House. http://www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org/site/sections/default.htm
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JM Turner's House - Sandycome. http://turnershouse.org/


Oscar Wilde's House - 21 Westland Row, Dublin  http://www.tcd.ie/OWC/history/westland.php
==Episode 5==


Dr Johnson's House - http://www.drjohnsonshouse.org/
At Chimni we are mainly focussed on house history, architecture and building styles, so our focus in this section is on house museums that celebrate and explain different periods of house building. However, dotted around the country are a series of wonderful house museums celebrating famous people and their work. We have listed some of our favourites below:


John Milton's Cottage. http://www.miltonscottage.org
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Darwin's home at Down House http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/home-of-charles-darwin-down-house/prices-and-opening-times
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==See Also In Chimni==
==See Also In Chimni==

Latest revision as of 16:38, 20 July 2019

Episode 1[edit]

Over 13,000 years of homes, from 11,000 BC to the 1600s. Phil reveals 13 homes of all shapes, sizes and styles, from primitive prehistoric pads to houses built as status symbols.

Episode 2[edit]

Phil tells the story of Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries through more amazing homes, from lavish properties to revolutionary social housing

Episode 3[edit]

In Episode 3 Phil Spencer examines how the Industrial Revolution completely changed Britain and left us with homes in Napoleonic forts, canal boats and city tenements.

Episode 4[edit]

Phil looks at the three decades of homes between 1850 and 1880, when working class slums were transformed into decent family abodes


Episode 5[edit]

At Chimni we are mainly focussed on house history, architecture and building styles, so our focus in this section is on house museums that celebrate and explain different periods of house building. However, dotted around the country are a series of wonderful house museums celebrating famous people and their work. We have listed some of our favourites below:

See Also In Chimni[edit]

Chimni Wiki Page: House History Books

Chimni Wiki Page: House History Projects

Chimni Wiki Page: House History Categorisation

References[edit]

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