Palaces, chateaux, country houses books

Fresh new format for Tarquin Blake's popular follow up to the successful Abandoned Mansions of Ireland  Read More >>

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Mademoiselle de Montpensier: Writings, Chateaux, and Female Self-Construction in Early Modern France examines questions...  Read More >>

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This book explores the landscape of Stradbally Hall from the perspective of four groups, with varying positions...  Read More >>

The Western District of Victoria. Even the name conjures up establishment families, history and grandeur. This area...  Read More >>

Versailles as you’ve never seen it… A lavish, large-format journey through the Palace’s breathtaking rooms and grounds...  Read More >>

The story of the estate at Boconnoc, situated near Lostwithiel in south-east Cornwall, is an extraordinary one....  Read More >>

Guide to this popular visitor site, with illustrations and text to bring the Priory's history to life.  Read More >>

The story of Venice’s Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, ‘the Unfinished Palazzo’, told through the lives of three of its...  Read More >>

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This book, gives a vivid picture of British-Indian social life from the eighteenth century to Independence, as well...  Read More >>

Father owned Yorkshire country estates and Huddersfield. Developed business in Malaya and bought Ardverikie, Scottish...  Read More >>

This extensive new research volume on the architectural, landscape and ownership histories of the Duke of Beaufort's...  Read More >>

Non-fiction: history, biography, memoir: a Scottish Downton Abbey, in which Mary C. Gladstone confronts the honor...  Read More >>

The City Palace at Udaipur is part of an exemplary living cultural heritage that has survived in an unbroken line...  Read More >>

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A Scottish Downton Abbey. After escaping from WW2 Singapore, Angus Macdonald, the future Laird of Lee Castle drowned....  Read More >>

In 2008 Tarquin Blake found his first abandoned 'Big House' and so began exploring the lost architecture of Ireland....  Read More >>

Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom: A History addresses the phenomenon of historic...  Read More >>

First published history of this famous grade 1 listed Norfolk hall and estate. Fully illustrated with reproductions...  Read More >>

The first charming mystery to feature the urbane banker sleuth, Mark Treasure.  Read More >>

The first charming mystery to feature the urbane banker sleuth, Mark Treasure.  Read More >>

Originally constructed in the late 16th century for the notorious Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury, Hardwick...  Read More >>