Splendour & Squalor
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- Short-listed for Spear’s Social History Book of The Year 2010
- “Witty, gossipy and profoundly researched”– Sunday Times
Click here for a report on Victor’s funeral, held at Ickworth on 7th October 2010, twenty-five years after his death in Monte Carlo. The only property at Ickworth now in Hervey family hands is the church, bought by John Bristol … Continue reading
Posted in news | Leave a commentThe House of Lords, apparently ‘reformed’, continues to demonstrate that ‘the new elite has developed the self-regard and advanced sense of entitlement of the old aristocracy without the intervening centuries of uneven service and sporadic self-sacrifice’ [from the epilogue of … Continue reading
Posted in news | Leave a commentWednesday 1st June: Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk. Lunchtime. Plse click here for further information. This event is now closed. Thursday 2nd June: Suffolk Book League, Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street, Ipswich. Evening. Please click here for further information. This event is now … Continue reading
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