Gentry: Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English ClassAdam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds and many times of grief of his chosen cast illuminate the grand events of history. We may well be a nation of shopkeepers, but for generations England was a country dominated by its middling families, rooted on their land, in their