Britain has more than 3,000 stately homes, and many are open to us hoi polloi. Indeed, visiting a stately home has become a staple leisure activity: what could be more British than a weekend drive to ...

It’s said that Sir Christopher Hatton – a favourite of Elizabeth I – was the finest dancer in England; he first caught the Queen’s eye at a ball, performing a vigorous galliard. Could he have matched ...

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Introduction: The stately homes and England -- Prelude: Houses of taste (to 1815) -- 1. The Victorian idea of heritage -- 2. Hosts and guests: the opening of the country house -- 3. Philistines, ...

BEAULIEU (Reuters) - Pausing to catch her breath on step 53, Belinda Sheldon leans on her vacuum cleaner and eyes the last stretch of staircase that winds up through Palace House, a stately home in ...

"These notices were prepared for, and originally appeared in, the Art journal, but they have been rearranged, here and there rewritten, and in every case materially ...