"I have always maintained that British history in the eighteenth century is primarily a history of country houses."
— Lewis Namier

January 1, 1970

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Letter to Sir Archibald James (18 November 1955), quoted in D. W. Hayton, Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier (2019), p. 400