Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76.

"Drawing on thousands of memoirs, unpublished letters and diaries, and the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and bibulous butlers, historian Adrian Tinnis

With all the wit and authority that made his "Life in the English Country House" an enduring classic, Girouard uses letters, diaries, inventories, books of etiq

The country houses designed by Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) are some of the most original and memorable works of architecture in Britain. He was rightly judged