Rural Britain Then & Now
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- Firm Sale - A celebration of the British countryside and how it has changed over the last 140 years using photography from the Francis Frith Collection - the world's leading archive of topological photographs of British locations, providing a continuous record of change from Victorian times to the 1960's. Celebrating all aspects of Britain's rural life, past and present, this book taps into the huge appetite for nostalgia both in Britain and worldwide. Contemporary photographs complement those from the Frith collection to provide a fascinating documentary of social, architectural and economic change. Foreword by Sir Simon Jenkins, ex-editor of The Times, ex-deputy chairman of English heritage and chairman of the Buildings Books Trust.
Author: Roger Hunt
Format: Paperback, 208 pages, 174mm x 222mm, 573 g
Published: 2006, Octopus Publishing Group, United Kingdom
Genre: Regional History
Description
- Firm Sale - A celebration of the British countryside and how it has changed over the last 140 years using photography from the Francis Frith Collection - the world's leading archive of topological photographs of British locations, providing a continuous record of change from Victorian times to the 1960's. Celebrating all aspects of Britain's rural life, past and present, this book taps into the huge appetite for nostalgia both in Britain and worldwide. Contemporary photographs complement those from the Frith collection to provide a fascinating documentary of social, architectural and economic change. Foreword by Sir Simon Jenkins, ex-editor of The Times, ex-deputy chairman of English heritage and chairman of the Buildings Books Trust.
Rural Britain Then & Now