Black Diamonds
- author
- Catherine Bailey
- Narrator
- Gareth Armstrong
- Length
- 15 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher
- Oakhill
- Catalogue #
- 12248
- Categories
- History - British
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Wentworth, today, is a crumbling and forgotten palace in Yorkshire. Yet just 100 years ago it was the ancestral pile of the Fitzwilliams – an aristocratic clan whose home and life were fuelled by coal mining. This is the story of their spectacular decline and a class war that literally ripped apart the local landscape.