Lost Mansions

James Raven is Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, UK, and a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK. His books include Bookscape (2014), The Business of Books (2007), and Lost Libraries (2004). He is a Trustee of the Marks Hall Estate, Essex, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

• 1. Introduction; James Raven 2. Lost Aspects of the Country Estate; Jon Stobart 3. The Destruction of the Country House in Ireland, 1879-1973; Terry Dooley 4. Bowen's Court as an Aesthetic of Living: A Lost Mansion's Significance in the Imagining of the Irish Gentry; Ian d'Alton 5. The Loss of Country Houses and Estates through the Destruction and Obscuring of Identity; Barbara Wood 6. Better off as Ruins? The Scottish Castle Restoration Debate; Michael Davis 7. The Demolished Mansions of Essex and the Marks Hall Estate: Reconstruction and the Heritage of Loss; James Raven