In the second half of the 19th century the Rothschild family, bankers and financiers, built or acquired no fewer than seven great houses in and around the Vale of Aylesbury, while a little to the south Benjamin Disraeli, soon to be Prime Minister, was also moving in. This pamphlet outlines their story. (36-page pamphlet, published by Rothschild Waddedon Limited, 1996)