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Book cover of The Disintegration of a Heritage: Country Houses and Their Collections, 1979-1992

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Stuart Ritchie

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I was first introduced to this book early in my professional career as it described why so many houses were passed to the National Trust as families disassembled their collections of works of art and libraries of books until the house ceased to be viable in its own right.

I also now appreciate better those stately homes that remain in private ownership and open to the public, with the unrelenting challenge families face to keep those homes going. I also recognized Hugh Massingberd as the then obituary editor at The Daily Telegraph, who took his role most seriously as…

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