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1472937260

About Britain : a journey of seventy years and 1,345 miles.

Author: Cole, Tim.

Publication year: 2021

Language: English

Media class: Hardback

Classification: 910.4

Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2021.

ISBN: 9781472937261 (hbk.) : 18.99

Notes:

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 13 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.