In the story of English architecture, and the history of Cambridge University in particular, Down...

Margaret Mercer Elphinstone (1788-1867), with her powerful mind and independent spirit, was never...

The first publication to tell the full story of Swaine Adeney Brigg, the makers of luxury leather...

Published in memory of the architectural historian John Cornforth, these great house inventories ...

The value of inventories in charting how houses were arranged, furnished and used is now widely a...

The partnership of Philip Rundell and John Bridge began in London toward the end of the eighteent...

A remarkable private collection formed over the last thirty years is the focus of this richly ill...

Astory of the making on location of this classic film at a seventeenth-century mansion in the Nor...

The book begins by the North Sea. It is a late summer's afternoon, and a bright sun has dispersed...

The manuscript, here shown in facsimile with commentary, was made by a clergyman in a bid for the...