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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 1d

No, said a lisping Bobbety: 'Actually, when you come to think of it, it is weally wather embawassing as most Nobel Pwize winners have done more to pwomote war than peace.'
More of this in HEIRS AND GRACES – out now! Both Bobbety and his uncle Bob were 10/10 top lads
www.penguin.co.uk/books/453305...

Heirs and Graces

There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We're fascinated by their houses and estates, t...

www.penguin.co.uk

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't much to add about the Nobel Prize but this. Bobbety Salisbury was once showing some American senators around Hatfield when they came upon a picture of Bob Cecil, one of the architects of the League of Nations. They said how amazing it must be to have a Nobel Prize winner in the family...

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 2d

My book remains very much available to buy! If you’d like your hardback signed and dedicated I will gladly send you a bookplate so get in touch if you’d like one
www.penguin.co.uk/books/453305...

Heirs and Graces

There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We're fascinated by their houses and estates, t...

www.penguin.co.uk

Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 2d

I’m glad to say that it’s online here, and, self-evidently, in today’s paper
www.racingpost.com/news/feature...

‘Even the rich ones tend to be cash-poor and racing requires you to be cash-rich’ - the changing role of the aristocracy in racing

Eleanor Doughty explores the place of the aristocracy in racing through the years

www.racingpost.com

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 2d

I am utterly thrilled to find my piece on the aristocracy and racing on the front of today’s Racing Post – truly, little could be more thrilling! What a fun piece to write, pegged to the publication of my book HEIRS AND GRACES, a history of the modern British aristocracy

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 2d

As it says in the piece, there are no contents and in any case he’s divorced so he’d be on his own. And it’s huge and boarded up for works! Who’d want to live there? These houses are not good homes. I understand that he has a perfectly nice house on the estate.

Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps! I don’t think we need worry whether he’s solvent though

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sure you’ll observe that he doesn’t particularly need the money from his book sales or indeed anything else

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 2d

It’s from one of the holiday lets – not sure why it was included since, as you say, I cut those lines from the copy

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote a bit for @thehousemag.bsky.social about the last of the hereditary peers and it was great fun!
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

'We’ve been on borrowed time all my life': the end of hereditary peers

The departure of the last of the hereditary peers will be a sadness to some, but Eleanor Doughty looks back on a long history of aristocratic indif...

www.politicshome.com

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 5d

It was my huge pleasure – after years of trying – to interview the Earl of Iveagh at Elveden for this week's Great Estates. On being a Guinness and that famous name, on sitting in the Lords as an Irishman, on the brewery, his lovely pa and more, he was fantastic
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/1cfb8b6...

‘The Guinness curse is dreamt up – we’re the luckiest family alive’

Swapping his family’s famous stout for onions, the 4th Earl of Iveagh reflects on a ‘wonderful association’

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes things drop into your inbox and you think: yes please! This was one of them. Fair play to Ned Iveagh for being so game having turned me down before – and for posing with a pint of Guinness for the snapper. This interview could have been triple the length: he was so clear and so interesting

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 5d

It was my huge pleasure – after years of trying – to interview the Earl of Iveagh at Elveden for this week's Great Estates. On being a Guinness and that famous name, on sitting in the Lords as an Irishman, on the brewery, his lovely pa and more, he was fantastic
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/1cfb8b6...

‘The Guinness curse is dreamt up – we’re the luckiest family alive’

Swapping his family’s famous stout for onions, the 4th Earl of Iveagh reflects on a ‘wonderful association’

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 6d

How bad do we think this will be?

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 6d

Presume this must have been about Skinner because I feel a bit violated after watching it (rather behind the live)

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 7d

Love my optimism for planning my evening dog walk around the sunset on a day when the sun does not actually appear to have actually risen at all

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 7d

Truly this was the best way to spend a Friday afternoon! I absolutely loved it!

History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 7d

Big thanks to "Heirs and Graces" author @brushingboots.bsky.social for raging today that the aristocracy still exist, keeping their houses from the National Trust!

We covered snobbery, death duties, class, and Wentworth Woodhouse's ruin.

🔥 Patreon, Dec 15!

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 7d

Big thanks to "Heirs and Graces" author @brushingboots.bsky.social for raging today that the aristocracy still exist, keeping their houses from the National Trust!

We covered snobbery, death duties, class, and Wentworth Woodhouse's ruin.

🔥 Patreon, Dec 15!

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 8d

You can buy the book here, in all formats! It's even better than this review says it is! And given how long it is, it is absolutely outstanding value for money
www.penguin.co.uk/books/453305...

Heirs and Graces

There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We're fascinated by their houses and estates, t...

www.penguin.co.uk

Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 8d

How lovely to see a review of my book HEIRS AND GRACES, a history of the modern British aristocracy in this month's Critic by Adrian Tinniswood. It’s also online here! How nice! (I'm not sure I am actually 'besotted', as much as a serious scholar of a serious subject)
thecritic.co.uk/bobo-boofy-a...

Bobo, Boofy and all | Adrian Tinniswood | The Critic Magazine

Victor Hervey showed early promise. After trying to wring the necks of the postmistress’s ducks as a child, he went to Eton.

thecritic.co.uk

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 8d

That is important context indeed (which she omitted)!

Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 8d

Undoubtedly! But I think it’s important to say that that ‘they’ is a 2008 ‘they’

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 8d

To be fair this book came out in 2008 so it's not part of any kind of new movement

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 8d

It's not a new book though – pretty sure I bought that about 15 years ago

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Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social · 9d

This time in a fortnight I will be ON A STAGE at the Cheltenham Festival with the Duke of Beaufort, Lady Violet Manners and the Countess of Harrowby talking about the aristocracy and my book! It's going to be really good! Do come! Tickets here
www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/the-c...

The Changing Aristocracy | Cheltenham Festivals

There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, yet we are fascinated by their houses and estates, their

www.cheltenhamfestivals.org