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Title: Noble Ambitions
Author: Adrian Tinniswood
Narrator: Roger May
Format: mp3
Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
Release date: 10-07-21
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating
Genres: Architecture
Publisher's Summary:
As the sun set slowly on the British Empire in the years after the Second World War, the nation's stately homes were in crisis. Tottering under the weight of rising taxes and a growing sense that they had no place in 20th-century Britain, hundreds of ancestral piles were dismantled and demolished. Perhaps even more surprising was the fact that so many of these great houses survived, as dukes and duchesses clung desperately to their ancestral seats and tenants' balls gave way to rock concerts, safari parks and day trippers.

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