Bearing Up : The Long View

Francis Fulford

The obituary of the landed estate in Britain has been written many times over the last hundred years as landowners have experienced the deprivations of war, agricultural decline and penal taxation.

In Bearing Up : The Long View, Francis Fulford looks at the troubled history of landowning and identifies the characteristics which have enabled many estates to survive while others have foundered. Surveying the scene today, Fulford draws on his own experiences to suggest a strategy of survival in the twenty-first century.

With four new chapters and eight pages of illustrations,this fully revised edition brings the story up to date in Blair’s Britain.

A regular contributor to radio and television, Fulford, together with his wife Kishanda and four rumbustious children, attracted an audience of three and a half million for the recent Channel 4 fly-on-the-wall documentary The F***ing Fulfords.

Francis Fulford is the twenty-third generation of Fulfords to live at Great Fulford, a far-from-pristine but idyllic mansion at the centre of a three thousand acre Devonshire estate. His outspoken property column in Country Illustrated is essential reading for anybody with an interest in rural affairs in general and country property in particular.

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