A diligent student of the upper crust

A relaxed-looking Mark Girouard was interviewed by BD after winning a WH Smith Award for his book, Life in the English Country House. During the interview he revealed how bored he’d been working on Pevsner’s Buildings of England series, and how his love of grand houses had started in his ...

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