Gracing the banks of the River Thames, this exquisite gem survived the Civil War thanks to a shrewd political operator, and is one of the finest Stuart houses in the country

Ampthill Park House, Bedfordshire, part I The home of Sir Timothy and Lady Clifford

A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National ...

Without the generosity of one remarkable man, Sir James Roberts, the Brontë Parsonage Museum might never have come to be. Roberts’ own rags-to-riches story sounds like something from a book. He was bo

A blueprint for Sissinghurst IN 1925, Sissinghurst Castle ...

These days, there’s a lot of talk about the politics of personality, but standing in an extensive cave system near West Wycombe, we were transported to a time when politics was at the centre of a scen