Hello everyone and welcome to the history of England.

Episode 348 The Great Rebuilding

First of all folks, a reminder to sign up for the English Revolution pole and prize

draw.

A chance to tell the world what you think calls the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and if

you wish to enter a draw to win a 1644 silver penny, worn with pride at the time as a

royalist badge, admitted to the king in a city of Oxford under siege.

Let's go to the historyofingland.co.uk to enter.

But for the next two episodes, we are going to turn away once more from revolution and

all that, and instead turn to matters domestic and social.

We are going to talk vernacular architecture, and then next time how the rich and famous

lived in their great, prodigy houses.

Also, I have decided to get all teachyly on you, so for each episode I have also written

an article with pictures and plans and so on.

So if you want to know more and visualize these things we are going to talk about, go to

the only place that matters.

The historyofingland.co.uk be there or be square.

So the subject of today's episode is a phenomenon that seems to occur around this time of the

16th and 17th centuries in vernacular architecture.

The sort of place you and I would have lived in.

It is a period that was called very grandly in the way that historians used to be grand,

the great rebuilding.

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