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Clive Aslet
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<h2 id="early-life">Early life</h2> <p>Aslet was educated at <a href="/facts/King%27s_College_School/Isw9wVRg">King's College School</a> in Wimbledon and <a href="/facts/Peterhouse,_Cambridge/gI8yefaI">Peterhouse, Cambridge</a>, where he earned a degree in the history of <a href="/facts/Architecture/FccThs8G">architecture</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="career">Career</h2> <p>After graduating, he joined <i><a href="/facts/Country_Life_(magazine)/JBBGHVKp">Country Life</a></i> magazine in 1977 as architectural writer, becoming architectural editor in 1984, deputy editor in 1989, and editor-in-chief in 1993. In 1997 he was named <a href="/facts/British_Society_of_Magazine_Editors/MnXnfub6">British Society of Magazine Editors</a>' Editor of the Year. After 13 years as editor-in-chief, from 13 March 2006, Aslet left and took on a newly created role of <a href="/facts/Editor-at-large/2WvrT13F">editor-at-large</a>, which allowed him to write more books as well as articles for newspapers such as <a href="/facts/The_Daily_Telegraph/aHa5nNw5">The Daily Telegraph</a>, the <a href="/facts/Daily_Mail/a4uUpVJG">Daily Mail</a>, and <a href="/facts/The_Sunday_Times/15om0zLf">The Sunday Times</a>. He has regularly broadcast on radio and television current affairs programmes including <i><a href="/facts/Newsnight/lfQIek1h">Newsnight</a></i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p><p>Aslet has published over 30 books, including, in 2012, his first novel, <i>The Birdcage.</i> </p><p>In 2019, he established the publishing imprint Triglyph Books with the photographer Dylan Thomas. </p><p>Two years later he was one of the small team that founded the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture at Downing College, Cambridge. </p> <h2 id="books">Books</h2> <p>Aslet is the author of: </p> <ul><li>Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain’s Greatest Architect? (Triglyph Books, 2024) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-7397314-3-4)</li> <li>Living Tradition: The Architecture and Urbanism of Hugh Petter (Triglyph Books, 2023) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-9163554-5-3)</li> <li>Old Parkland: Community, Architecture and the American Ideal (Triglyph Books) 2022 (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-9163554-8-4)</li> <li>Collecting Nature: The History of the Herbarium and Natural Specimens (with Svante Helmbaek Tirén; Bokförlaget Stolpe AB, 2022) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-91-89425-64-4)</li> <li>The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People (Yale University Press, 2021) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-300-25505-8)</li> <li>Mawson: The Art and Craft of Garden Making (Stolpe Publishing, 2021) <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-91-89069-98-5)</li> <li>The Academy: Celebrating the work of John Simpson at the Walsh Family Hall, University of Notre Dame, Indiana (Triglyph Books, 2021) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-9163554-2-2)</li> <li>Building Beautiful: Classical Houses (with John Simpson; Rizzoli, 2021) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-8478-7063-9)</li> <li>The Real Crown Jewels of England: 100 Places That Make Us Great (Little Brown, 2020) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-4721-3375-5)</li> <li>Old Homes, New Life: The Resurgence of the British Country House (with Dylan Thomas; Triglyph Books, 2020) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-9163554-0-8)</li> <li>The Birdcage (Cumulus, 2014), (Sandstone Press, 2016) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-910985-00-7)</li> <li>The Age of Empire: Britain's Imperial Architecture (Aurum, 2015) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-78131-225-4)</li> <li>Strands of History: Northbank Revealed (Wild Research, 2014) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-9576966-2-4)</li> <li>An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams: The Americans who Revived the Country House in Britain (Aurum, 2013) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-78131-094-6)</li> <li>The Edwardian Country House: A Social and Architectural History (Frances Lincoln, 2012) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-7112-3339-3)</li> <li>War Memorial: The Story of One Village's Sacrifice from 1914 to 2003 (Penguin, 2012) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-241-96065-3)</li> <li>The Arts and Crafts Country House: From the Archives of Country Life (Aurum, 2011) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-84513-680-2)</li> <li>Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside (Bloomsbury, 2010) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-7475-8872-6)</li> <li>The English House (Bloomsbury, 2008) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-7475-7797-3)</li> <li>The Landmarks of Britain: The Five Hundred Places that Made Our History (Hodder and Stoughton, 2006) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-340-73511-4)</li> <li>A Horse in the Country: A Diary of a Year in the Heart of England (Fourth Estate, 2001) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-84115-375-9)</li> <li>The Story of Greenwich (Fourth Estate, 1999) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-85702-825-6)</li> <li>Inside the House of Lords (with Derry Moore; HarperCollins, 1998) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-00-414047-6)</li> <li>Anyone for England? (Little Brown, 1997) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-316-88172-2)</li> <li>Countryblast: Your Countryside Needs You Now (John Murray Publishers Ltd., 1991) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-7195-4945-8)</li> <li>The American Country House (Yale University Press, 1990) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-300-10505-6)</li> <li>Quinlan Terry: The Revival of Architecture (Viking, 1986) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-670-80831-1)</li> <li>The National Trust Book of the English house (Viking, 1985) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-670-80175-6)</li> <li>A History of Elveden (Christie, Manson & Woods Ltds., Sales Catalogue, 1984)</li> <li>Enchanted Forest: The Story of Stansted in Sussex (with the 10th Earl of Bessborough; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-297-78491-3)</li> <li>The Last Country Houses (Yale University Press, 1982) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-300-02904-8)</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.cliveaslet.com">Official website</a></li> <li>Triglyph Books (Official website)<a href="https://triglyphbooks.com">[1]</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Clare Fisher (2 February 2006). "Clive Aslet takes on editor-at-large role on Country Life". journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2007. <a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/recruit031.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/recruit031.shtml</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Mark Hedges appointed editor-in-chief of Country Life as Clive Aslet takes on editor-at-large role". ipcmedia.com. 30 January 2006. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2009. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110724105130/http://www.ipcmedia.com/press/article.php?id=73773" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110724105130/http://www.ipcmedia.com/press/article.php?id=73773</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>