Longleat: The Story Of An English Country House

While superficially a history of an English stately home this is really a history of the 13 generations of the Thynne family that has inhabited Longleat. It is a story taken from priceless documents held at Longleat that chronicle the lives of well to do Englishmen over the last 400 years, involving the fall of Charles I, assassination, hunting parties in Victorian England, and the turning of the home in a tourist attraction, as well as more mundane facts concerning the lives of the domestic staff and farmers that relied upon Longleat.