About Britain: A Journey of Seventy Years and 1,345 Miles by Cole, Tim

About Britain: A Journey of Seventy Years and 1,345 Miles

In 1951, the Festival of Britain commissioned a series of short guides they dubbed 'handbooks for the...
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Author: Tim Cole
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About Britain: A Journey of Seventy Years and 1,345 Miles by Cole, Tim

About Britain: A Journey of Seventy Years and 1,345 Miles

Dhs. 95.94

About Britain: A Journey of Seventy Years and 1,345 Miles

Dhs. 95.94
Author: Tim Cole
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In 1951, the Festival of Britain commissioned a series of short guides they dubbed 'handbooks for the explorer'. Their aim was to encourage readers to venture out beyond the capital and on to 'the roads and the by-roads' to see Britain as a 'living country'. Yet these thirteen guides did more than celebrate the rural splendour of this 'island nation': they also made much of Britain's industrial power and mid-century ambition - her thirst for new technologies, pride in manufacturing and passion for exciting new ways to travel by road, air and sea.

Armed with these About Britain guides, historian Tim Cole takes to the roads to find out what has changed and what has remained the same over the 70 years since they were first published. From Oban to Torquay, Caernarvon to Cambridge, he explores the visible changes to our landscape, and the more subtle social and cultural shifts that lie beneath.

In a starkly different era where travel has been transformed by the pandemic and many are journeying closer to home, About Britain is a warm and timely meditation on our changing relationship with the landscape, industry and transport. As he looks out on vineyards and apple orchards, power stations and slate mines, vast greenhouses and fulfilment centres for online goods, Cole provides an enchanting glimpse of twentieth and early twenty-first century Britain as seen from the driver's seat.

Author: Tim Cole
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Published: 08/09/2022
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781472937285

About the Author

Tim Cole is Professor of Social History at the University of Bristol and Director of the Brigstow Institute, which brings researchers together across the university to work with those outside it exploring what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. When not journeying through the landscape and along the highways and by-ways of Britain, Tim lectures on modern history with an interest in geography and place.

@TimCole_Bristol

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