The first comprehensive re-evaluation for 100 years. New and original research. Re-assesses the chronology of late seventeenth century English furniture design.

The eighteenth-century home, in terms of its structure, design, function, and furnishing, was a site of transformation – of spaces, identities, and practices.

Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714 analyzes Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire.

A study of the material world of English ambassadors at the end of the 17th century, illustrating the way in which architecture and the arts played an important