Adrian Tinniswood

The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War

Friday 4 October
Meet at the Stables Car Park Warwick Castle
2.00pm

This talk will take place in Warwick Castle’s State Dining Room.

In the decades before the First World War – the Great War – the owners of the nation’s stately homes revelled in a golden age of glory and glamour. Nothing lay beyond their reach in a world where privilege and hedonism went together with duty and honour. 

This was a time when ancestral seats stood side-by-side with the fabulous palaces of Jewish bankers and Indian princes, when dukes and duchesses mixed with society hostesses who had learned to dance in the chorus line and self-made millionaires who had been raised in the slums of Manchester and Birmingham.

Adrian Tinniswood explores the country house during this golden age, when Britain ruled over a quarter of the world’s population, when its stately homes were at their most opulent and when, for the privileged few, life in the country house was the best life of all.

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