Historians and other scholars from the UK and Australia present 16 essays that draw on landed family and estate papers from the UK and Ireland to examine the experiences of families in country houses during World War I. They discuss Robert Heard, the lives of fighter pilots and the country house elite, the correspondence between Edward Richards-Orpen and his wife Margaret, combatants from the landed classes in Ireland, Brodsworth Hall's community, Norman Leslie, Augusta Bellingham and the Mount Stuart Hospital, Roger Bellingham, Tommy Agar Robartes, the Percy family and their staff, Lady Londonderry, the Hely-Hutchinson brothers of Seafield, King Elmes, T.E. Lawrence and Pierce Joyce, William Upton Tyrrell, and the Talbot family of Kiplin Hall. Essays were first presented at the 12th Annual Historic Houses of Ireland Conference in 2014 at Maynooth U., Ireland. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Drawing on archival materials, and incorporating never-before-seen images, this volume presents a spectrum of experiences from owners, to servants and tenants, as well as the local communities that lived in the shadow of the big house. These personal narratives identify lost or forgotten figures, uncover unknown stories and military records, and excavate the more hidden histories of those who endured the war at home. [ Subject: Country Houses, WWI, Irish Revolution, Estates, Social & Cultural History, Ireland & UK]
