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From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain

Between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed. The grand narratives of the Enlightenment, concerned with kings and statesmen, gave way to a new…

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