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Introducing Hopetoun House, Part 3: Blurring the Lines
Hunting in early modern Scotland was a grand display of social status, intertwined with property rights and land management. Although…
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Charles Hope, Earl of Hopetoun, Hope family, Hopetoun House, Hopetoun Papers Trust, Lady Margaret Hope, William Adam, William BruceIntroducing Hopetoun House, Part 2: A Dynamic Complex
Hopetoun House, commissioned in 1698 by Lady Margaret Hope for her son Charles, was designed by Sir William Bruce and…
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Archival Sources, Hope family, Hopetoun House, Hopetoun Papers Trust, Scottish Architecture, Sir William BruceIntroducing Hopetoun House, Part 1: Archival Sources
The project examines the eighteenth-century Scottish country house, particularly Hopetoun House, as a reflection of socio-economic shifts during the 1700s.…
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