The Clifton Dynasty is a gripping history tracing the fortunes of thirty generations of the Clifton's over 850 years. Set within a changing social, cultural and political scenario, each century reveals a compelling drama and new personality. Readers time-travel from the founding of the Norman family to life within the mediaeval manor, into the Tudor household of Sir Gervase 'the Gentle' to that of his grandson, Sir Gervase 'the Great' and Civil War. Witness Restoration and Revolution, Catholic recusant, Georgian domesticity and Regency splendour. Encounter Sir Robert Clifton, Victorian politician of the people, meet the Irish heirs, and enjoy an Edwardian summer. Finally, brave twentieth century austerity and post war climax as Lt.-Col. Clifton, dispossessed of land, and vacates Clifton Hall.