My twentieth podcast is up! It's my first multi-author interview, as I talk with Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery about their book Consumption and the Country House, which examines the spending patters of the elite on their country houses during the 18th century. Enjoy!
Country houses possess a remarkable endurance as a subject of study. Ever since the publication of Mark Girouard's seminal Life in the English Country House in 1978, scholars have spent an increasing amount of attention exploring their design and construction, the lives of their owners, the duties p...