Awards and Recognition
- 1986 Somerset Maugham Award Frontiers
- 1987 PBFA Topography Prize Wetland (with Patrick Sutherland)
- 1997 British Press Awards Feature Writer of the Year (shortlist)
- 1998 British Book Awards Illustrated Book of the Year (shortlist) Restoration
- 2002 Duff Cooper Prize (shortlist) Sea Room
- 2004 Royal Society of Literature W.H.Heinemann Prize Power and Glory
- 2005 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- 2006 Royal United Services Institute Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature (shortlist) Men of Honour
- 2009 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History
- 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize (longlist) Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History
- 2009 Spears Book Awards Family History of the Year Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History
- 2010 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
- 2012 Spears Book Awards Social History of the Year The Gentry
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