This is a recording of a talk called the English Castle in the 19th Century, by John Goodall, which was recorded on 15th November 2022.
Some of the most spectacular country houses built or rebuilt in the nineteenth century were not houses at all – they were castles. From Alnwick to Cardiff and Arundel to Peckforton, great aristocratic families – and others – gave leading architects some of the most extraordinary commissions of the age.
John Goodall, the Architectural Editor of Country Life, is the author of the acclaimed study The English Castle: 1066–1650 (2011). His latest book, The Castle: A History, published earlier this year, takes the story up to the present day in an account of the changing meanings of castles over the centuries.
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Image: Courtyard of Arundel Castle By Mark Tollerman from London, UK - DSC_0879_0321Uploaded by snowmanradio, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31007515
