Haddon Hall near Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK. It is the former seat of the Dukes of Rutland.
cr: Hans uit Heudsen
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Boat House, The Manor, Priors Marston,
Warwickshire, United Kingdom,
Landscape architect: Charles Gilchrist
Clive Nichols Photography
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A room in Can Papiol house-museum in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Penedès, Catalonia).
Since the year 1790 and throughout the 19th century, this was the home of one of the wealthiest families in the small city of Vilanova i la Geltrú: the Papiol family, who owned many vineyards around the city. The house has preserved its 19th century interiors, and nowadays it's a house-museum that allows visitors to see what a 19th century upper class family home was like.
The house includes a library with about 6,000 books written between the 16th and the 19th centuries, as well as a music room, a billiard room, a ballroom where the family hosted music parties and literary meetings, a dining room, the bedrooms, a small private chapel, the servants' rooms, areas for servants to do domestic work and for farmers to do their work, stables, and a little Romantic garden.
Photo by mirades_nostres on Instagram.
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Felix Kelly (1914 - 1994) - Pyrton Manor, Oxfordshire. 1973. Oil on board.
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The Manor House, Cotswolds / England (by Amanda).
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Did nobles interact with commoners regularly, and if so did they do so outside formal sessions? For instance would nobles leave their manors and engage one to one, or was this likely to end in violence?
I've actually written quite a bit about this: it was considered to be an important part of a noble's political education for them to learn how to "condescend" gracefully to the commons without either being overly "familiar" or "giving insult." It's a bit like how we expect modern politicians to be very good at surface level social interaction - shaking hands, kissing babies, remembering people's names, etc.
A nobleman who couldn't do that - John of Gaunt was famous for being utterly crap at it - would get a bad reputation as overly proud (in one direction) or obsequious.
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