Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House Sustainability Every spire

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Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House Sustainability Every spireFrom the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic values. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire in the years after the Second World War, the nation's stately homes were in crisis. Tottering under the weight of rising taxes and a growing sense that they had no place in twentieth century Britain, hundreds