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Clive Aslet is editor-atlarge of Country Life and an eminent architectural historian. He lives in London and Ramsgate.
Americans and the British Country House Clive Aslet For centuries Britain’s country houses had been the exclusive preserve of their traditional landed gentry of lords and ladies. But from the late nineteenth century a different kind of proprietor began to take up residence. American money – lots of it – came across the Atlantic in the form of Vanderbilt heiresses and stupendously wealthy industrialists like William Waldorf Astor. Their money purchased grand houses like Cliveden and Leeds Castle and it saved vast piles like Blenheim from dereliction and decay. Clive Aslet’s fabulously illustrated book is the first study of this remarkable and unlikely juxtaposition of two very different cultures, which changed the architecture, the society and the character of our country houses forever.
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Ashes 2013 This summer’s Ashes series is so eagerly awaited that tickets for all five Tests sold out with lightning speed. And this year Aurum is joining with the cricket lover’s paper of choice, The Daily Telegraph, to publish the first book about the series – within weeks of the last day’s play of the final Test. Ashes 2013 will collect the finest writing from the paper throughout the series, from Derek Pringle and Scyld Berry to Simon Hughes and Steve James, blending match reports of every single day’s play with analysis, features and columns from the Telegraph’s matchless team of commentators – Michael Vaughan, Shane Warne and Geoffrey Boycott. It will be the essential souvenir of what is certain to be a hard-fought and memorable summer of cricket.
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