The Englishman's Castle: A History of House, Large and Small, in Town and Country from AD 100 to the Present Day

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At the Tower of London, for example, you can visit Edward I’s recreated apartment in Traitors’ Gate, with its 13th-century tiles, wall paintings and furnishings reimagined.

Focusing on the 20 developed economies in the survey, the UK had the smallest homes, averaging 76m 2. An Englishman's Castle is a BBC television serial first broadcast in 1978, written by Philip Mackie and directed by Paul Ciappessoni. No less importantly, contemporary films and fiction create new castles in our imagination – just look at Hogwarts. PAGES , 16 QUAINT COLOURED PLATE, 42 OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS, RED CLOTH , HARD COVER , DUST JACKET , AS LITTLE FRAYED , NO OTHER MARKINGS , GHOOD CONDITION. Afterwards, appreciate a tranquil moment at the haunting ruins of England’s first Cluniac Priory in nearby Priory Park.In ‘An Englishman’s Castle’ he gives the performance of a lifetime – subtle and underplayed but incredibly moving.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. When I studied economics in school, at the age of 16, we were told there were four factors of production: land, labour, capital, and ‘entrepreneurship’ – the one nobody could spell. We cater for all tastes and requirements but if you cannot find quite what you're looking for, we can have the furniture made to your specifications by one of our bespoke manufacturers.

Our Englishman’s castle appears in the background – complete with replacement windows and satellite dish – and his sports car is parked in front. While average home sizes vary considerably across the major economies, the amount we spend on our homes is remarkably similar, with an OECD study published in 2022 finding that, in the vast majority of member states, the median debt-servicing burden on a mortgaged property was 15% of disposable income, give or take a percentage point. While working on a client project recently I came across an interesting article containing estimates of the average size of residential property across a disparate set of 24 countries. Just as one might measure labour productivity by looking at the amount produced per unit of labour, so too one might measure land productivity by looking at the amount produced per unit of land.