Wentworth Woodhouse the house and estate of the family new He was the natural choice

He was the natural choice when the UN were looking for an experienced detective to create a trail of evidence linking the mass graves of Bosnia to the people who ordered the worst war crimes seen in Europe since the Second World War

while many others worked in vital wartime industries

It is told in the no nonsense style of a pioneer cop who has seen the worst that human beings can do to each other

The Peasants Revolting Lives celebrates those who have endured against the odds

Wentworth Woodhouse the house and estate of the family new He was the natural choiceIt was the home of a knight, a baron, a viscount, two marquises and nine earls. The family had estates not only in South Yorkshire, but also in North Yorkshire, the Midlands and Ireland, at their greatest extent covering nearly 120,000 acres. One head of household was beheaded. Another saw one of the last wolves in the British Isles. One owner built the Palladian mansion at Wentworth, which has the longest frontage of any country mansion in Britain,