Eleanor Doughty

‘This is a marvellous book’ Heirs and Graces is reviewed in today’s Times and I am feeling rather emotional, again. Thank you @AlwynTurner thetimes.com/article/68f240…

@MikePeevey I’ve only just seen this but wanted to say thank you very much! I intended it as a successor so that is extremely kind of you to say. My copy of David Cannadine’s book is much post-itted!

@brushingboots Well deserved. To me, it feels like the successor volume to David Cannadine’s Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. After the decline ended what did they do? Eleanor Doughty tells us.

Today I experienced the incredibly flattering novelty of seeing someone else’s copy of a book that I have written filled with post its and it produced a warm glow like no other

@MinooFramroze And please also refer to my book on the subject which explains why this is wrong!

Media folk : if you long to call people Lord John Mann or Lord George Robertson, please lobby for a mass creation of new hereditary dukes & marquesses/ises (eg I myself wd selflessly accept the marquisate of a discreet Scots or Oxfordshire territory)

It is my huge pleasure to be on @violet_manners’ Hidden Heritage podcast this week talking about the aristocracy and country houses and my book and the last 13 years of writing about this stuff!! It’s really good, listen! podcasts.apple.com/si/podcast/hid…

What's next for Beaulieu, one of the founding estates of the stately homes industry? This week's Great Estates – on trusts, titles and being scions of the Dukes of Buccleuch with Lord Montagu, whose very famous father led the charge in more ways than one telegraph.co.uk/gift/da4bf84e5…

Absolutely deeelighted to have contributed to this lovely bit on Good Friday's The World Tonight about the hereditary peers in the House of Lords – from 18 mins here bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Alec Cobbe, of the Cobbe Collection at Hatchlands Park, Surrey. Facebook.com/castlehoward/p… CobbeCollection.co.uk AlecCobbe.com/bio

This week's Great Estates is on Euston Hall and the Duke and Duchess of Grafton, their first interview of this kind. Ft the duke's approach to being ducal, his vinyl decks alongside the Reynolds in the drawing room + what to do with the rows of Van Dycks telegraph.co.uk/gift/bb94f2610…

This week's Great Estates is on Rousham, one of the most beautiful places in the land – and under threat by a proposed new town. Just how special does a place have to be to be sacred? 'For the UK,' says the artist Francis Hamel, 'this is Taj Mahal level' telegraph.co.uk/gift/d5980be75…

I’m back on Times Radio in a few minutes talking about the House of Lords again! This time with @hwallop!

Or indeed Jon Harvey! Looking forward to it just as much! In about five mins

Looking forward to talking to Jon Pienaar tonight on Times Radio about the hereditary peers and the House of Lords!! About 7.40ish, do tune in!

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 Behind the stately homes and glossy period dramas lies a tougher reality than most imagine. 💼💔 In this episode of History Rage, journalist @brushingboots lifts the curtain on the relentless work and pressure that come with maintaining aristocratic estates today. 🏰💡 🎧 Listen : pod.fo/e/3a194b #HistoryRage #EleanorDoughty #BritishAristocracy #BehindTheScenes #PodcastLife #Heritage

This was just SUCH a brilliant podcast to do – I loved it and you can listen to it now! It is well worth your time if I may say

I wrote about the confrontingly honest and rather brave Cavenagh-Mainwaring family of Whitmore Hall in Staffordshire who are grappling with 940 years of history and how to manage that legacy, with a 17-year-old future heiress in tow telegraph.co.uk/gift/76ee3510b…

It’s #WorldBookDay and I am off to talk to my old school about writing books! Why not treat yourself to my book, HEIRS AND GRACES? The paperback is available to preorder but if you can’t wait get the hardback. It is SUCH good value + it’ll come tomorrow!! penguin.co.uk/books/453305/h…

This week's Great Estates is on Knepp and its future chatelain Ned Burrell, who speaks cogently about his inheritance, about farming and about food security. It would be easy to be romantic about Knepp but he's pragmatic. It's a great piece if I may say telegraph.co.uk/gift/435f14a45…