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Introduction

The Sutherland Papers contain thousands of documents relating to the lives of ordinary people who interacted with the Leveson-Gower family between the sixteenth century and twentieth centuries. Letters written to the family by tenants on their estates in Staffordshire feature alongside letters sent to the fourth Duchess Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1867-1955) from the allied front during the Second World War.

Click on the links below to learn more about the thousands of people’s stories which survive in the Sutherland Papers.

Local Lives and Local People
Life on the Sutherland Estates
Misfortune & Money in the Sutherland Papers
Patronage in the Sutherland Papers
Real Life Stories in the Sutherland Papers
Women’s Lives in the Sutherland Papers
Artists & Architects
Tracing Our Ancestors in the Sutherland Papers