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Stately Home News @statelyhomenews.bsky.social · 17h

Free online lecture - Castle Howard's 21st Century Renaissance, by Dr Christopher Ridgway, Curator @CastleHowardEstate.bsky.social. Friday 17 Oct 6pm (1pm-2:15pm ET). Moderated by Curt DiCamillo @AmericanAncestors.bsky.social.
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Historic Houses @historic-houses.bsky.social · 23h

On 28th October, our DG @bencowell.bsky.social will be speaking as part of the autumn talks series at The Georgian Group.

He'll be discussing the revival of country houses & why #Budget2025 must be heritage proofed to avoid unintended damage.

🎟️Book your ticket here: tinyurl.com/yye9ccm5

The British Country House Revival

£15 members/£18 non-members Fifty years ago, there were widespread fears about the future of Britain’s country houses. The V&A’s ‘Destruction of

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 1d

Aerial image of Pakenham, Suffolk. St Mary's Church is flanked by 2 historic houses: Nether Hall on the far side & Newe House on this side. The village lies amid ancient parkland and farmland between Ixworth and Bury St Edmunds. #Pakenham #Suffolk #Aerial #image #NetherHall

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The Irish Aesthete @theirishaesthete.bsky.social · 2d

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Kindly Regarded Here

Writing about follies more than 70 years ago, illustrator and author Barbara Jones described these structures as ‘built for pleasure, and pleasure is personal, difficult to define. Follies are fash…

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 3d

LANSIAD LLYFR | BOOK LAUNCH

Dr Shaun Evans
Mewn sgwrs gyda | In conversation with Dr Lowri Ann Rees

COMING OF AGE CELEBRATIONS ON WELSH LANDED ESTATES: GENTRY, CULTURE & SOCIETY c.1770-1920

5.30pm, 23/10/2015
Lecture Room 2 Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University

Croeso i bawb | All welcome!

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 26d

Coming of Age Celebrations on Welsh Landed Estates by Shaun Evans is the first comprehensive study of gentry coming of age celebrations, offering insights into the social & cultural dynamics of estate communities in 18th & 19th century Wales. Learn more: buff.ly/xHOSKU4 @ystadaucymru.bsky.social

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 3d

Date for your diary. Please come up and say hello. It would be lovely to meet people I know from BlueSky.
Earlham Library, Colman Road, Norwich, NR4 7HG. (It’s free!)

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The Irish Aesthete @theirishaesthete.bsky.social · 5d

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Look Up

The extraordinary ceiling in the drawing room of Fota House, County Cork. This part of the building dates from the mid-1820s when Sir Richard Morrison was employed by Fota’s owner, John Smith…

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 6d

Aerial view of Kirby Muxloe Castle, Leicestershire – built in the 1480s by William Hastings, ally of Edward IV. Work stopped abruptly after Hastings was executed by Richard III in 1483, leaving his castle unfinished #Aerial #image #KirbyMuxloeCastle #Leicestershire #Moat

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 5d

I am utterly thrilled to find my piece on the aristocracy and racing on the front of today’s Racing Post – truly, little could be more thrilling! What a fun piece to write, pegged to the publication of my book HEIRS AND GRACES, a history of the modern British aristocracy

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 5d

I’m glad to say that it’s online here, and, self-evidently, in today’s paper
www.racingpost.com/news/feature...

‘Even the rich ones tend to be cash-poor and racing requires you to be cash-rich’ - the changing role of the aristocracy in racing

Eleanor Doughty explores the place of the aristocracy in racing through the years

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Stately Home News @statelyhomenews.bsky.social · 6d

No. But did he honestly say why he wasn't living it up in the Hall with his family and friends?

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Stately Home News @statelyhomenews.bsky.social · 6d

I'm guessing that his income is mostly used to fund a large and extended family, including a lot of non-income producing assets (e.g. homes, collections, etc). It's amazing how quickly a family office can chew through conservatively-sourced revenue!

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Stately Home News @statelyhomenews.bsky.social · 6d

Perhaps they can change the photo caption to mention the holiday lets, as a subtle plug - I don't think his book sales alone are going to fund the Hall restoration!

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Stately Home News @statelyhomenews.bsky.social · 6d

Was the bedroom photo from Elveden Hall? It seems out of place in the article, compared to all the empty rooms, with no mention of it in the final edition.

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 7d

Aerial view of Kirby Muxloe Castle, Leicestershire – built in the 1480s by William Hastings, ally of Edward IV. Work stopped abruptly after Hastings was executed by Richard III in 1483, leaving his castle unfinished #Aerial #image #KirbyMuxloeCastle #Leicestershire #Moat

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote a bit for @thehousemag.bsky.social about the last of the hereditary peers and it was great fun!
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

'We’ve been on borrowed time all my life': the end of hereditary peers

The departure of the last of the hereditary peers will be a sadness to some, but Eleanor Doughty looks back on a long history of aristocratic indif...

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Office of Public Works @opwireland.bsky.social · 6d

St Patrick’s Hall in Dublin Castle is getting ready to welcome Ireland’s 10th President this November!
Go behind the scenes as chandeliers, some with over 500 pieces of crystal, are carefully lowered, cleaned, polished, & winched back into place. This painstaking process takes 2 weeks to complete!

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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 8d

Shotley Park, a Grade II listed house in Consett, has been on fire overnight. County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service have been working to put out the blaze last night and during today. There was an application in 2024 to turn it into a hotel🧵

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The Irish Aesthete @theirishaesthete.bsky.social · 9d

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Something of a Rarity

Originally from Yorkshire, in 1657 Montifort Westropp settled in Limerick city and three years later was comptroller of the port there. Subsequently he purchased various parcels of land in Co. Clar…

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 9d

It was my huge pleasure – after years of trying – to interview the Earl of Iveagh at Elveden for this week's Great Estates. On being a Guinness and that famous name, on sitting in the Lords as an Irishman, on the brewery, his lovely pa and more, he was fantastic
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/1cfb8b6...

‘The Guinness curse is dreamt up – we’re the luckiest family alive’

Swapping his family’s famous stout for onions, the 4th Earl of Iveagh reflects on a ‘wonderful association’

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 8d

Delighted to share some initial research that Stephanie Pratt (Crow Creek Dakota) & I have started at Knole @researchnt.bsky.social. How can its transatlantic connections also centre Indigenous presence? What new interpretation might such frameworks allow?

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Indigenous Plant Stories in an English Treasure House

Delve into the links between Knole and Indigenous American histories as we investigate its colonial connections.

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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 7d

As part of our autumn online lecture series
Michael Hall, author of 'A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National Trust', to be published by Bloomsbury in February 2026, reconstructs a strange, #queer saga at Clumber Park the seat of the Dukes of Newcastle. Read more bit.ly/4o5qqi6 🧵

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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 7d

We've got a little update from the excavations on the lawns of the Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire.
Angus Wainwright, NT Archaeologist, says: "We teamed up with @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social and Cambridge Archaeology Field Group to carry out this dig in front of hundreds of visitors." 🧵

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 9d

Beaumanor Hall, Loughborough aerial view - grand Victorian estate built in the 1840s. Used during WWII as a secret listening station intercepting enemy signals, it’s now a Leicestershire County Council conference & training centre. #aerial #image #Loughborough #BeaumanorHall

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