Cliveden Astors) at the Cliveden swimming pool led to the Profumo Affair which so damaged the Macmillan government. Spring Cottage was awarded Grade II listed status in 1986, and in 1997 the hotel company which leased Cliveden House from the National Trust also acquired the lease to the cottage. A reported £750,000 was spent restoring and refurbishing the dilapidated building before it reopened in 1998 as a self-contained luxury holiday let. The cottage and its garden are not open to the public. Cliveden Reach, between Cookham Lock and Boulter's Lock, is one of the most scenic stretches of the Thames. A
Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence of its work, the CSTPV maintains databases, manifestations, and consequences of terrorism and other forms of political violence. CSTPV has been able to expand its research and teaching work as the result of a donation from the Worldwide Support for Development (WSD), chaired by Japanese religious leader Haruhisa Handa. Hence it was also named as Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. The Centre was founded in 1994 by Paul Wilkinson and Bruce Hoffman and created the Rand-St. Andrews terrorism incident database which provides data for their studies. In 1985 whilst head of Politics and International Relations