The latest post on my blog concerns a family of Lancashire cotton-spinners and their houses around Manchester and near Cartmel: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2026/05/635-...

My latest blog post concerns two rather obscure Scottish houses (one long demolished) and the influential family which owned them in the 17th and 18th centuries: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2026/04/633-....

The latest post on my blog concerns the Bingham family, and the entirely delightful Bingham's Melcombe (Dorset), which they owned for some 650 years until 1895: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2026/03/629-...

Yet another new post on my blog (I'm flying this month while the weather outside is frightful); this time concerning a family with a very smart house in Sussex, where every generation has worked in a different field, which is so unusual: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2026/01/625-...

The latest post on my blog concerns a wonderful Jacobean house in Wiltshire and the family which owned and altered it in the 18th and 19th centuries: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2026/01/624-...

The latest post on my blog concerns a family I have wanted to know more about for more than forty years, since I encountered them as relatives of a family whose papers I was cataloguing. Also, one for the pantheon of silly surnames. landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/12/621-...

The latest post on my blog concerns a Devon family, whose fortune was made by a 17th century physician and mysteriously evaporated in the 19th century: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/12/619-...

My latest blog post also tells the intriguing story of Westcombe Park, Greenwich,where the 9th Earl of Pembroke and Roger Morris built a pretty villa in 1727-30 which was later greatly extended: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/11/618-...

The latest post on my blog concerns a prosperous mercantile family from the Midlands who made a fortune and secured a baronetcy amid the turmoil of the Civil War and Commonwealth: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/11/618-...

There's a new post on my blog concerning an Anglo-Irish family with a seat in Co. Offaly that was rebuilt in the 1890s but burned in the Troubles in 1923: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/11/617-...

The latest posts on my blog concern a family of Herefordshire gentry who became bankers in the 18th century and barons in the 20th century, and acquired seats in Gloucestershire as well as Herefordshire: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/11/616-... and landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/11/616-...

Just a quick mention of the fact that my blog (landedfamilies.blogspot.com) will pass a significant milestone in the next day or two: 5 million page-views. From my first post early in 2013 it has been quite a journey!

The latest post on my blog concerns a recusant family whose seat in Staffordshire was sacked and burned in the Civil War and eventually replaced by a seat in Sussex, which burned down twice. An unhappy relationship with flames. landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/10/615-...

The latest post on my blog, concerning the #Bickley family, is a story of 'rags to rags in three generations', with lots of outstanding genealogical puzzles: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/10/614-...

And here's the missing link to my post on the Bickfords of Dunsland and the Cohams (now Coham-Flemings) of Coham House: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/09/613-...

The latest post on my blog concerns two interlinked Devon families: the Bickfords of Dunsland (whose house passed to the National Trust and burned down just before it was due to open to the public) and the Cohams (now Coham-Flemings) who have been at Coham House for A Very Long Time.

The draft VCH history of Coates near Cirencester by Alex Craven, with input from Grace Owen, Beth Hartland and Jan Broadway, has been published on the @ihr.bsky.social website: www.history.ac.uk/sites/defaul....

As a holiday task while in Cornwall last week I have updated an early post on my blog about the #Adams family of Bowden House, #Totnes #Devon with much new genealogical information: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2013/04/30-a...

Another new post on my blog, this time about a Welsh family who built a handsome seat in #Pembrokeshire in the early 19th century: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/08/610-...

The latest post on my blog concerns a merchant family from Newcastle, and later London, who had seats in Northumberland and Leicestershire: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/08/609-...

The latest post on my blog concerns a family who were among the founders of Barclays Bank and last supplied its chairman in the 1980s: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/07/607-...

#Job alert! Come and join us for 12 months in our lovely @chppc.bsky.social team @ihr.bsky.social. We're seeking a fixed-term #Lecturer in Historic Environment, who'll work on @vchlondon.bsky.social projects & more. Closing date 29 August. Please share! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The latest post on my blog concerns a Shropshire family who held an estate on the edge of Shrewsbury from the 14th to the 19th centuries: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/06/606-...

Today has been our 45th wedding anniversary, celebrated with Lobster Thermidor and Strawberries Romanoff. Retro or what? I am a child of my time!

The latest post on my blog concerns a Yorkshire family which has held the same estate since the early 17th century... and are still there, although the great house is now a wedding venue in separate ownership. landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/06/604-...

My latest posts concern some of the Best families: one of obscure peers with a rather attractive minor seat in Dorset, and the other, who from Yorkshire roots built an estate in Berkshire in the C19. landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/05/602-... and landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/05/601-...

The latest post on my blog concerns a Kentish brewing family with a clutch of seats around Maidstone: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/04/600-...

The latest post on my blog concerns a Scottish family with a seat on the southern edge of the central belt which they seem to have more often let than occupied! landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/04/599-...

The latest posts on my Landed Families blog concern a family of courtiers with seats around Oxford until the early 20th century: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/03/598-... and landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/03/598-...

The latest post on my blog concerns a family who made their money from a C19 Sheffield brewery and still hold a 1600 acre Yorkshire estate with a comfortable C18 house and a fine folly belvedere tower: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/01/596-...

The latest piece on my blog concerns a Scottish family with a legal tradition and a seat on the River Tay: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/01/595-...

My first blog post of 2025 concerns the families of the super-rich newspaper tycoons, the Viscounts Camrose and Kemsley, and their many houses, only one of which remains in their possession today: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/01/594-...

The latest post on my blog tells the rather remarkable story of Richard McCarthy, later Berridge, the son of an Irish soldier who made a fortune in the brewing industry in London and became the largest landowner in Ireland. And who was a serial philanderer.

The latest post on my blog follows the complex story of the junior branch of Berney family in Norfolk and their many houses: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2024/12/592-...

We have battened down the hatches against Storm Darragh as far as we can. Suddenly being 300ft up overlooking the Bristol Channel feels a little precarious!

The latest post on my blog concerns one of Norfolk's oldest families, whose self-inflicted wounds have repeatedly deprived them of country houses: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2024/12/591-...

The latest post on my blog concerns a family of lawyers with an important London estate and a seat in Suffolk: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2024/11/590-...

Yet another refugee from Twitter here. I hope many of those who followed my posts on British and Irish country houses there will do so here too. Every new post on my blog flagged: landedfamilies.blogspot.com