From Roman villas to Downton Abbey: Britain’s country houses
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I Think the Country Houses Should Be Doing More to Acknowledge the Darker Side of the Imperial Projects
There is a genuine surgeon public interest in country houses, says the author. He believes that people of previous generations have looked at country houses as embodiment of embodiments of taste. In recent years there has been discussion about how some of britain's country houses were financed by colonialism and slavery. Do you think the country houses should be doing more to acknowledge the link between the darker side of the imperial projects?
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