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A major new history of architecture in Britain and Ireland that looks at buildings and their construction in detail while revealing the cultural, material, political and economic contexts that made them Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530-1830 presents an up-to-date and comprehensive history of architecture in Britain during this three hundred year period. Drawing on the most important advances in architectural history in the last seventy years, ranging across cultural, material, political and economic contexts, this book also encompasses architecture in Ireland and includes substantial commentary on the buildings of Scotland and Wales.

Across three chronological sections: 1530-1660, 1660-1760, and 1760-1830, this volume explores how architectural culture evolved from a subject carried solely in the minds and skills of craftsmen to one embodied in books and documents and with new professions architects, surveyors and engineers in charge. With chapters dedicated to towns and cities, landscape, infrastructure, military architecture and industrial architecture, and beautifully illustrated with new photography, detailed graphics and a wealth of historic images, Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530-1830 is an invaluable resource for students, historians and anyone with an interest in the architecture of this period, and promises to become a definitive work of scholarship in the field.

Steven Brindle is a senior properties historian at English Heritage and publishes widely on the history of architecture and engineering, with major works including Brunel: The Man Who Built The World (2005) and, as editor, Windsor Castle: A Thousand Years of a Royal Palace (2018).