Escape to the Country (Archives): Some Historical Reflections
Philippa Woodcock and Juliette Desportes reflect on their use of and engagement with country house archives.
The piece follows a recent visit at Brucefield House for the annual meeting of Scottish Association of Country House Archivists (SACHA) in late March 2026, which offered a thought-provoking space to reflect on the central relationship between historical practice and the archives which shape past and present. It also provided an unusual opportunity for an early-modernist and a modern historian to collaborate and exchange ideas with practitioners and owners.