Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reading the past : what is architectural history? What is history? / EH Carr ; The fictions of factual representation / Hayden White -- The authority of the author : biography and the reconstruction of the canon. Biographical dictionary / Sir Howard Colvin ; What is an author? / Michel Foucault -- On classical ground : histories of style. Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830 / Sir John Summerson ; Art history and class struggle / Nicos Hadjinicolaou -- A class performance : social histories of architecture. Life in the English country house / Mark Girouard ; In search of cultural history / EH Gombrich --The illusion of inclusion : the guidebook and historic architecture. The buildings of England / Sir Nikolaus Pevsner ; The Blue guide / Roland Barthes -- Reading architectural herstories : the discourses of gender. Sexism and the star system in architecture / Denise Scott Brown ; Planning and representation in the early modern country house / Alice T Friedman.