Country house owners who might once have been looked up to with a certain awe are now, in the public eye, regarded as weird. No wonder some of them want to present themselves as businesspeople instead ...

In 1903, the diamond magnate Julius Wernher bought Luton Hoo, a grand mansion in Bedfordshire, and set about making it grander still. The final bill for his architects, Charles Mewès and Arthur ...

The evolution of the English country house from 1939 to 2022. Over the past year our architecture editor John Goodall has illustrated a period in the development of the English great house. In this ...

Here are five other films where summering at a country house leads to significant power imbalances and lifelong consequences. The Coming-of-Age Country House Movie ‘The Go-Between’ (1971) ...

House Republicans on Monday open the next act of their Washington farce, desperately searching for a speaker after ousting the incumbent and rejecting two would-be replacements while still ...