Black Diamonds - Catherine Bailey

This is the first book by Catherine Bailey, a successful and award winning television producer and director with a range of critically acclaimed documentaries to her credit. Subtitled "the Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty", this meticulously researched work, traces the history of the Fitzwilliam family, in the earlier half of the twentieth century, when they were one of the Britain’s richest families. Their wealth was chiefly based on coal and their history is inextricably linked with the fortunes of that industry. The Fitzwilliams’ ancestral home was the palatial Georgian gem, Wentworth House, situated five miles from Sheffield and in the heart ...  Read the complete review