the bobt: a trip to the archives
To mark April's Renaissance, the bibleofbritishtaste presents new stories and themes. Some are being commissioned from generous and talented friends. But these are not them. Today's story is an amuse gueule from its archives of thousands... 
At Brewery House, in the Somersetshire Hills
I met Ursula Brooke at lovely Shulbrede Priory, the family house of her late husband Thomas Ponsonby,now home to her sister-in-law Kate and her husband Ian Russell. Some time after they had generously allowed me...
Shulbrede Priory near Lynchmere.
On the borders of Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire, Shulbrede Priory is the surviving corner of the rather obscure religious house of Wlenchmere, founded at the end of the twelfth century and suppressed by Henry VIII in...
