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Dr Amy Boyington is a public historian and popular social media historian (@history_with_amy). Her past roles have included Senior Properties Historian at English Heritage, Trust Director at The Lutyens Trust, and Post-Doctoral Researcher at both Kensington Palace and Queens’ College, Cambridge. She is the author of Hidden Patrons: Women and Architectural Patronage in Georgian Britain.
A dashing overview of the high arts of sumptuous Georgian country-house feasting, including the all-too-often overlooked hard labour behind the scenes, undertaken by countless toiling servants, who kept the whole glittering show on the road. In a book that is as lively and colourful as its subject, Amy Boyington reveals how dining rooms came to occupy such a central role in the lives of the aristocracy and gentry of the 18th century, and served as an index of wealth, status and taste. In this brilliant study, the dining room emerges as the crucial theatre of country house hospitality. Amy Boyington draws together all the action, props and scenery of this world; crucially she links the architecture, decoration and table presentation with an understanding of how the table was served and what role feasting had in elite Georgian society. This richly illustrated book is in itself a feast of historical research fit for country house buffs everywhere.
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