Be Your Own House Detective: Tracing The Hidden History Of Your Own House; Author: Dowdy, Mac; Joint Author: Austin, David; Hardback; Book

Author: Dowdy, Mac; Joint Author: Austin, David
Hardback; Book; Colour & B&w Photographs & Illustrations Throughou
224 pages
Published: March 1997
BBC Consumer Publishing
ISBN: 0563383143
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Be Your Own House Detective, which accompanies the BBC TV series The House Detectives, will help you trace the history of your house and ensure some fun in the doing of it. The three detectives - David Austin, Mac Dowdy, and Judith Miller - are all experts in their fields. They explain how to gather evidence from both the house and the area around it, and how to analyze the material youhave collected. The also guide you on how to spend time profitably at your local library finding information about local history, records covering your house or street, and even details of your home's earlier inhabitants. Fully illustrated chapters cover the Medieval, Tudor and Jacobean, regency, Victorian and Edwardian periods, allowing your detective work to be simple and entertaining. Be Your OTrace the history of your house with the expert help of this book, written by a combination of excellent talented authors from architectural history and landscape architecture, to antiques and collectables. To tie in with a new series of the programme 6 X 30 minutes in April on BBC2.Many an occupant of an old house would like to know more about its history, and this book explains how to gather evidence from the house itself and the surrounding area. It then describes, in visually-led chapters covering individual architectural periods, how to analyze the evidence collected.