Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
James Lees-Milne

Born: 1908
Died: 1997 (aged 89)
Bio: James Henry Lees-Milne was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist and biographer: his extensive diaries remain in print.
Known for:
- Another Self (1970)
- Ancestral Voices (1975)
- Diaries, 1942-1954 (1995)
- Roman mornings (1956)
- Ancient As the Hills (1997)