Country houses were grand statements of power and status, but they were also places where people lived. This book traces the changes in layout, the new technolo

Comfort, Pleasure and Prestige describes the ways in which the Welsh gentry used domestic technology to ensure that their country-house lifestyle was as comfort

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

By the beginning of the nineteenth century, over ninety-five percent of all the productive land in Ireland was in the hands of Anglo-Irish landowners. They live

This magnificent book describes the great country houses built with American industrial fortunes from the end of the Civil War until 1940. The American Country