Twentieth Century Revival Architecture and The Gentry

This case study focuses on the 20th century revival houses of a Midwestern University city, Urbana, Illinois. English Revival houses are most closely associated with faculty families viewed as constituting a “gentry class” housed in a traditional “faculty row.” Other people (businessmen, managers, operatives and self-employed professionals) have occupied the Colonial Revival and Dutch Colonial houses and Cape Cod cottages. Initially, the Early American style (the Colonial Revival diluted for use on ranch houses) was employed by developers and builders to house lower-middle class families in the new subdivisions of the 1960s. The occurrence of various style houses in Urbana is compared with national architectural trends as reflected in a leading builders' magazine.     

The Irish rebellion of 1798

The Rebellion in Wicklow 1798 Ruan O'donnell, 1998 Dublin, Irish Academic Press pp.441, ISBN 0.7165.2659.X, £39.50 (hb)

On the Road to Rebellion: The United Irishmen and Hamburg 1796–1803 Paul Weber, 1997 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp.205, ISBN 9.781851.82311.6, £30.00 (hb)

The Summer Soldiers: The 1798 Rebellion in Antrim and Down A. T. Q. Stewart, 1995 Belfast, The Blackstaff Press pp. 294, ISBN 0.85640.558.2, £12.99 (pb)

1798: Rebellion in County Down Myrtle Hill, Brian Turner & Kenneth Dawson (eds), 1998 Gortrush, Colourpoint pp.286, ISBN 1.898392.44.7, £8.99 (pb)

The Sites of the 1798 Rising in Antrim and Down Bill Wilsdon, 1997 Belfast, The Blackstaff Press pp. 191, ISBN 85640.615.5, £7.99 (pb)     

维多利亚晚期英国宗教的世俗化

在维多利亚晚期,英国宗教一方面呈现出“信仰危机”,经常去教堂做礼拜的信徒日渐减少,教堂冷清;另一方面,宗教教派十分活跃,广泛地参与现世的社会活动。这些现象的出现源于英国宗教的历史传统及其社会的深刻变革。