Description: LGBTQ+ histories and identities come out of the National Trust's properties in these touching, poignant and revealing stories.
Brief description: Michael Hall has published several books on architecture, country houses and collecting, including Waddesdon Manor: The Biography of a Rothschild House (3rd ed., 2012), George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America (2014) and Art, Passion and Power: The Story of the Royal Collection (2017). A former Architectural Editor of Country Life and Editor of Apollo, he was Editor of The Burlington Magazine from 2017 to 2024.
Review Quotes:
"'A revelatory masterpiece, a true alternative history of our times'" --Simon Jenkins, former Chair of the National Trust
"Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, A Queer Inheritance does indeed provide an alternative and fascinating history of one of the country's most beloved institutions." --Peter Parker, The TLS "A Queer Inheritance tells a deeply researched and revealing story of our national life centred on a range of deceptively cosy settings." --Stephen Smith, The Guardian "The book is committed to showing the complexities of human life." --Oliver Cox, Apollo