Country House Research Articles

Hardware and Software Complex for Power Plant Management

Today, the issues of transferring private households to independent energy sources, including solar panels and solar collectors, are relevant. The article examines software options for hardware systems that can be used to manage energy supply systems for private homes. Technologies for using independent energy sources in the energy consumption system are presented, as well as the mathematical model for their optimization for remote country houses.

The Lost Plays of Ralph Sheldon (1623–1684)

Abstract This article traces the fate of an important group of early English plays in fifty-six volumes, collected by the Warwickshire antiquary Ralph Sheldon (1623-1684) and sold at a Christie’s country house sale at his home nearly a hundred years later. The sale itself in 1781 was an early example of the booksellers ‘ring’ and involved some of the major collectors of early English drama, notably David Garrick, Edmond Malone, and the Earl of Charlemont. The earlier portion of the Sheldon plays, recorded by Anthony Wood in a manuscript list, may have survived as part of the Malone bequest to the Bodleian Library. The Restoration Plays remained largely intact, in some thirty volumes, until the ill-fated sale of Lord Charlemont’s library by his descendants at Sotheby’s in 1865, discussed by Arthur and Janet Ing Freeman in The Library, VII, 23 (March 2022).

THE PLAN, FURNISHING AND FUNCTION OF A JACOBEAN COUNTRY HOUSE: BRAMSHILL, HAMPSHIRE, IN THE 1620s AND 1630s

This article focuses on Bramshill, Hampshire, one of the most important country houses of the early modern period. From 1605 Bramshill was the home of Edward la Zouche (1556–1625), 11th Baron Zouche – a major courtier during the reigns of Elizabeth i and James i – and was reworked in phases up to and just beyond his death. Based on rare-surviving documents from the 1630s as well as analysis of the house’s fabric, this article reconstructs Bramshill’s plan and interiors as they existed in the late Jacobean and Caroline years. It reveals the arrangement of two significant state apartments – for king and queen – and also the lodgings of the owner, his family and guests, as well as service areas. The rich source material additionally allows the furnishings to be analysed. By using Bramshill as an example, the article aims to shed light on English country houses of similar size and date. The early modern period is important as representing an apogee in the history of country house building – reflecting the ambition of owners such as Lord Zouche and the popularity of the royal progress. Visitors to Bramshill in the early seventeenth century included James i, Charles i and Queen Henrietta Maria.

Response to an article in issue 50.1 of this Journal by Elizabeth Edginton: ‘Country house poetry of the English Civil War: a metaphorical exploration of contemporary debates in UK child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy research and an update on TIGA-CUB’

Response to an article in issue 50.1 of this Journal by Elizabeth Edginton: ‘Country house poetry of the English Civil War: a metaphorical exploration of contemporary debates in UK child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy research and an update on TIGA-CUB’

Elite hostesses as disruptive forces: the country house in interwar Britain

ABSTRACT British high society in the interwar years was led by a small group of hostesses who were instrumental in heralding consistency after the upheaval of the Great War. Yet, they were also beacons of change, introducing the famous names of the day to each other. Likewise, the country house was entering a period of adjustment as many changed hands or were utilised more often due to the advent of the motor car and quicker travel. This article analyses the role of two hostesses who were at the centre of two of the greatest scandals of the 1930s and argues that the seclusion of the country house was significant to events. Wallis Simpsons role as de facto hostess at Fort Belvedere is explored through the writings of her contemporaries and analysed in the context of the Abdication Crisis. Nancy Astor's role as chatelaine of Cliveden House is explored in relation to her involvement with the Cliveden Set.

Disrupting the estate: Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie at Coleshill

ABSTRACT This article explores some of the ways in which queer women living in country houses have used their economic privilege and class leverage for their own purposes, disrupting and reshaping country house living to make space for their own independent endeavours. It takes as its case study the life of Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie (1895–1985), an innovative woman potter in the early British studio ceramics movement who rejected aristocratic, familial and societal expectations of duty and lineage to self-fashion an identity as an artist. Pleydell-Bouverie created a separate household on her family estate of Coleshill where she prioritised pleasurable domesticity with her female partners alongside creative expression and productivity. This essay investigates Pleydell-Bouverie’s use of the estate – both the conditions it afforded her and its ecological materiality – as a resource in her experimental artistic practice and in her alternative, non-heteronormative mode of living.

Power and patriarchy in the British country house: introduction to the special issue

Power and patriarchy in the British country house: introduction to the special issue

Situating love and loss: making a film, re-making a world

ABSTRACT The title of the author’s film ‘HOW PERFECT IS THIS HOW BLESSED ARE WE’ (HD video, 22 min and 11 s) is taken from the inscription on a bench on the top of a hill, at the highest point in the landscape of Compton Verney, designed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown in his ideal vision of the British country house. By appropriating this statement of contentment as a critical tool to inquire how perfect it really is and who is the ‘we’ that is so blessed, Suleman inserted their body into the landscape as a reminder of historical absences and erasure, and the legacy of colonialism and queer-phobia. The film is narrated, however, in the register of an address to an absent lover. A personal history and a lover’s yearning doubles as a critique of violent and exclusive histories.

Limmeridge House vs Blackwater Park: the Country House and Male Plot in The Woman in White

Limmeridge House vs Blackwater Park: the Country House and Male Plot in The Woman in White

장년세대 노년생활 주거선택에 관한 연구

1. CONTENTS (1) RESEARCH OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to find out what characteristics the elderly generation exhibits when choosing a residence to live in their old age after retirement. In other words, we tried to analyze what was an effective response strategy from the perspective of housing policy to minimize the mismatch between demand and supply in the housing market as well as housing stability by appropriately supplying the most preferred housing in the location they prefer. (2) RESEARCH METHOD As a tool for empirical analysis, frequency analysis was first conducted using the SPSS 26.0 statistical program, and response distribution and sample characteristics for all questionnaires were identified. Based on the evaluation data on the matters to be considered when choosing a place of residence after retirement, variables were classified through factor analysis and reliability analysis for each factor, and significant differences in the general characteristics of the sample were found and verified through chi-square analysis. (3) RESEARCH FINDINGS About 80% of the population of the elderly generation hope to move to the Gyeonggi-do area or the outskirts of Seoul within 5 years after retirement and live in a country house, apartment, or residential complex with an area of 20 to 30 pyeong(66~99㎡) or less. It was also found that they wanted to live independently around their children. There is a need for housing policies that respond to their needs to be quickly established in the short and long term. 2. RESULTS Analysis of what is an effective response strategy from the perspective of housing policy to minimize the mismatch between demand and supply in the housing market as well as stable housing for the elderly by appropriately supplying the most preferred housing in the location most preferred by the elderly. In addition, by analyzing housing preference according to general characteristics, the type of housing desired after retirement and the desired area were derived, and the residential area preferred and desired by the elderly generation was identified and presented as basic data for policy establishment.

The Moral Economy of English Country Houses in Ben Jonson’s “To Penshurst” and Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall

The Moral Economy of English Country Houses in Ben Jonson’s “To Penshurst” and Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall

“Lost in Flowers & Foolery”: A Gendered Reading of the 9th Earl of Devon’s Flower Watercolors

William Courtenay, 3rd Viscount Courtenay and 9th Earl of Devon (1768–1835), has been most remembered for his romantic relationship with author and slave owner, William Beckford (1760–1844), which scandalized London society in 1784. However, the 9th Earl’s life after this event has received little attention despite his artistic contributions to the built environment of his ancestral home of Powderham Castle in Devon. In the 1790s, he created a series of flower watercolors on paper and cabinets under the supervision of his drawing master, William Marshall Craig (c.1765–1827). These artworks complicate ideas about gendered expectations of amateur artistic subjects, with flower painting being largely understood as a feminine accomplishment. This article explores the Earl’s watercolors in the context of the spaces at Powderham to argue they are evidence of his effeminate behavior and participation in female activities alongside his thirteen sisters. The association of these objects with a man attracted to those of his own sex contribute to studies of queerness, amateur art, and the country house in the late eighteenth century.

Participation beyond expectation: Contemporary art installation provokes unexpected responses in an English country house

Participation beyond expectation: Contemporary art installation provokes unexpected responses in an English country house

ПРИМЕНЕНИЕ РАДАРНЫХ И ОПТИЧЕСКИХ ДАННЫХ ДЗЗ ДЛЯ ОЦЕНКИ КОЛИЧЕСТВА ПОСТРАДАВШИХ ДОМОВ, ПЛОЩАДИ И ГРАНИЦ ЗОН ЗАТОПЛЕНИЯ

The article presents the result of determining the flooding zone and the affected houses and buildings of the town of Atbasar from the spring floods of 2017. This result was obtained using three available remote sensing data Sentinel-2A, Landsat-8 and Sentinel-1B of medium spatial resolution. At the first stage, remote sensing data of the near, short-wave, thermal infrared (IR) range and polarization by contrast level were visually analyzed. Images were selected based on a high level of contrast between two classes: a water object and a non-water object (land). At the second stage, threshold values were calculated from a sample of pixels related to water bodies, and then binary images were created. In the third stage, binary images were logically summarized to eliminate the cloud effect and find the resulting binary image of the flood zone from spring floods. In the fourth stage, the resulting binary image was superimposed on the GIS data of the town of Atbasar, where the locations and the number of affected houses and buildings were located. According to this study, it was found that more than 200 country houses were flooded in the northern part, and 9 houses in the eastern part of the town of Atbasar. According to media reports and official bodies, the number of affected houses in Atbasar was about 400. The number of affected houses found by the method of logical summation with three remote sensing data was 52%. The accuracy of the location can be significantly improved by using high spatial resolution remote sensing data. The results of this study may be useful for the emergency service, local government agencies, and insurance companies in assessing damage from spring floods.

Bad manors: Bergerac as anti-heritage polemic

The BBC’s Bergerac (1981–91) premiered less than a week after ITV’s Brideshead Revisited, which codified the core elements of heritage productions. Heritage and preservation were subjects of contentious cultural and political debate during Margaret Thatcher’s time as prime minister, which largely coincided with Bergerac’s run. While its case-of-the-week stories offer little generic innovation for the police procedural, Bergerac’s content and visual style anticipate the backlash to 1980s–90s heritage productions that emerges near the end of the decade. Jersey’s history, Offshore Financial Center status and its idiosyncratic relationship to the United Kingdom make it ideal for exploring intense scepticism towards unfettered capitalism, the privileges of wealth and the need for a more inclusive definition of heritage, one that accounts for people of economically marginalized status, which, on Jersey, tends to be anyone who is not a millionaire. Practically every episode of Bergerac concentrates on wealthy lifestyles, class disparity and action located at stately country houses. The goal, though, is not to romanticize them, but to critique them through its disapproving protagonist, Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac. Bergerac operates as a polemic against wealth, consumption and Thatcherism. In doing so, it consistently advocates for a less exclusive definition of ‘heritage’ that challenges the one associated with Thatcher, lavish television adaptations, like Brideshead, and Merchant-Ivory’s films.

Insomnia in Forensic Detainees: Is Salience Network the Common Pathway for Sleep, Neuropsychiatric, and Neurodegenerative Disorders?

Forensic hospitals throughout the country house individuals with severe mental illness and history of criminal violations. Insomnia affects 67.4% of hospitalized patients with chronic neuropsychiatric disorders, indicating that these conditions may hijack human somnogenic pathways. Conversely, somnolence is a common adverse effect of many antipsychotic drugs, further highlighting a common etiopathogenesis. Since the brain salience network is likely the common denominator for insomnia, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, here, we focus on the pathology of this neuronal assembly and its likely driver, the dysfunctional neuronal and mitochondrial membrane. We also discuss potential treatment strategies ranging from membrane lipid replacement to mitochondrial transplantation. The aims of this review are threefold: 1. Examining the causes of insomnia in forensic detainees with severe mental illness, as well as its role in predisposing them to neurodegenerative disorders. 2. Educating State hospital and prison clinicians on frontotemporal dementia behavioral variant, a condition increasingly diagnosed in older first offenders which is often missed due to the absence of memory impairment. 3. Introducing clinicians to natural compounds that are potentially beneficial for insomnia and severe mental illness.

O literackich łupach wojennych w bibliotekach prywatnych. Przypadek zbiorów Clasa Rålamba w Länna Gård

After arriving in Sweden, the literary spoils of war taken from Poznań in the Swedish deluge in the 1650s ended up in the private country house library of nobleman Clas Rålamb (1622–1698), who had been sent by Swedish King Charles X Gustavus (reigned 1654–1660) to manage the difficult situation in this Polish town while it was under Swedish command. With the help of a still extant inventory from the 1690s drawn up at the country house before the books were donated to Uppsala University Library, where they remain today, the contents and possible arrangement of this library are briefly described and discussed in this article. Some notable characteristics are the sections on theology and duplicates being larger than what would normally be expected from a country house library of this kind. It is assumed that these factors, among others, indicate that Rålamb did not make any sort of selection when seizing the books from monasteries and churches in Poznań. In addition, it suggests that their primary role in their new environment was to increase the cultural capital of their owner. Large numbers of the confessionally Catholic books were of little practical use in a Sweden characterized by Lutheran Orthodoxy.

Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Revolutionary Garden Georgic

This article appraises the role of the country garden in the interwar development of Sylvia Townsend Warner's writing and politics. Reading Warner's interrogation of genre and form as an example of the Georgic, it examines her published texts alongside personal papers and garden spaces to demonstrate how she worked to interrogate, and highlight, the social costs of misrepresentative literary landscapes. As she considered what it meant to inhabit a rural country cottage, and then a small country house, as a poet with keenly felt social responsibilities, her texts and gardens provided a way to work through her landscape anxieties. The cultivation of landscape on and off the page informed her development of a radical way of writing about landscape, and the gradual development of a radical politics.

A Socially Realistic Study of Crime and Corruption in P.D. James’ Works

P.D. James is a well - known author of both crime and mysteries who is recognized with enlarging the mystery subgenre. Even though she uses aspects of traditional detective fiction, James is particularly concerned in establishing the psychological motivations of her characters. James is renowned for her sophisticated written style, which is accentuated by literary allusions and quotations, as well as for the vivid, realistic characters and locations she creates. Writing detective fiction is one of James's passions and she strives to use the techniques that make "serious fiction" gratifying while still adhering to the genre's rules. She was interested in realism as early as her writings show. Her literary style is distinct from the classic "country house mystery" of conventional British detective fiction, in which static characters exist solely to further the plot of the mystery. Despite being constructed in the traditional "whodunnit" way, these novels rely on developed, convincing characterizations.

Country house poetry of the English Civil war: a metaphorical exploration of contemporary debates in UK child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy research and an update on TIGA-CUB

ABSTRACT Using the country house poetry of the English Civil War as a metaphor, this article traces some of the key debates in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy (CAPPT) research over the last 25 years. It identifies three main trends: initial confidence that child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapists (CAPPTs) could apply their existing theoretical methods to empirical research; recognition of the need to use qualitative methodology and to engage with quantitative approaches; and a period of retrenchment, with particular questioning of the use of randomised controlled trial (RCT) methodology. The article also reports the results of a service evaluation undertaken subsequent to the feasibility Trial on Inter-Generational Attachment and Children Undergoing Behaviour problems (TIGA-CUB) to determine whether to proceed to a large-scale, definitive trial, and the inclusion of TIGA-CUB in an on-going, innovative research project on RCT methodology. The article concludes that, if CAPPTs want RCT methodology more appropriate to their ways of working, the profession and the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) will need to develop a more pro-research environment, as well as career pathways which combine clinical work and publicly funded research.