Castle Howard
From ballrooms to billets – the fate of our country houses and their owners in wartime
Judith Lewis focuses on how wives and daughters, left in charge of ancestral homes, coped with vandalism, dispossession and even ruin as a result of requisition in the second world war
Guilt and gingerbread
Though many of her distinguished forebears campaigned vigorously against privilege and conservative elitism, they were still too posh for Toynbee’s comfort
Rescuing old Nick
In the conclusion to his very substantial study of England’s least known and most misunderstood Baroque architect, Owen Hopkins discusses…
Dwelling in marble halls
Phrases such as ‘Some aspects of…’ are death at the box-office, so it is not exactly unknown for the titles…
North star
There are festivals of everything, everywhere. So why get excited about the Ryedale Festival (11–27 July) apart from the fact…
