Noble Ambitions by Adrian Tinniswood

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/271 to listen full audiobooks. 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.