The Holy Roman Empire and Capability Brown
Peter Wilson describes the 1000-year history of this unusual central European entity, while Sarah Rutherford talks about the work of one of Britain’s greatest landscape designers

Published: March 3, 2016 at 2:56 PM
Professor Peter Wilson discusses his new book The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History. Meanwhile, garden historian Sarah Rutherford pays a visit to the grounds of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire where she explores the work of the great landscape designer Capability Brown.
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