The Great Rebuilding
The remarkable wave of rebuilding and new building that took place across society, between 1570 and the outbreak of the Civil War.
Few major events in English social history have so completely escaped the notice of historians as the revolution in the housing of the generality of people that occurred between about 1570 and the outbreak of the Civil War. The wave of ostentatious building that produced the country houses in the Elizabethan and Jacobean period has been amply recorded; but the remarkable wave of rebuilding and new building among all other social classes, except the poorest, has received little or no attention. This movement was so widespread all over England, except in the four most northerly counties, as to warrant the description of the Great Rebuilding.
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