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The article examines that on November 1985, Princess Diana and John Travolta took to the dance floor in the Cross Hall of the White House, as the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever played. Topics include reports that concrete exhibition spaces were transformed into composite country houses, demonstrating the chronological progression of taste from the Lumley Horseman through to a silver cigar humidor from 1978 in the form of Easton Neston.

The article offers information on several complaints that organizations such as the National Trust are ‘rewriting' history, the real challenge is how historic properties can present a fuller and more complex account of the past. Topics include reports that the playwright turned-architect Sir John Vanbrugh observed the widespread enthusiasm for touring old buildings.