Enfilade

As reported by Emile de Bruijn at the ever useful Treasure Hunt, the National Trust has recently released a massive bibliography for its properties. It’s an immensely valuable research guide and — one hopes — a model for other such institutions. . . .

The Rotunda, with the Temple of Venus in the distance, at Stowe, Buckinghamshire. ©NTPL/Andrew Butler

Our curatorial and publishing teams have been collaborating on a bibliography listing all the books and articles about the properties of the National Trust. This bibliography has just been made available online. It currently contains over 4,000 entries – the earliest one is a record of a visit by Queen Elizabeth I to Melford Hall in Suffolk in 1578. The property with the most entries is Stowe in Buckinghamshire. This very grand garden full of pavilions and monuments has inspired texts and interpretations almost from its inception. Even in the mid eighteenth century it had its own guidebook explaining the monuments to visitors. . . .