History and Heritage: July - December 2017 by Pavilion Books

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Hidden Villages of Britain Histories and Tr adition Past and Present

Clare Gogerty Batsford | 9781849944489 | £16.99 | September 2017 | HB Colour photographs throughout | 192 pages | 210 x 235 mm

The official tie-in to the successful Channel 4 series ‘Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages’ Inspired by Batsford’s classic books on rural Britain, ‘Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages’ has taken its viewers the length and breadth of the country to explore some of our most picturesque villages. Hidden Villages of Britain is the companion volume to the successful TV series, bringing together the most beautiful examples of British village life in one lavishly illustrated volume. Pictured alongside Brian Cook’s iconic illustrations from the classic Batsford series, the book follows Penelope’s journey through Britain, showcasing its idyllic villages as they appeared then and now. The history, life and traditions of each village are explored, from fireworks in Lewes, to the tar barrel burning at Ottery St Mary. A true celebration of British village life and an evocative read for the armchair traveller. Clare Gogerty is an award-winning editor and writer. She is the former editor of Coast magazine and is also the author of The National Trust Book of the Coast. She writes on a variety of subjects, including UK travel, homes and interiors.

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THE National Trust’s

Tour of Britain Alan Titchmarsh, Anna Groves & Sally Palmer National Trust Books | 9781911358190 | £25.00 | July 2017 HB | Colour photographs throughout | 256 pages | 254 x 240 mm

An illustrated journey around many of Britain’s most beautiful and fascinating places Following the ‘Secrets of the National Trust’ series airing on Channel 5 in Spring 2017, with Alan Titchmarsh as the lead presenter, comes this lavishly illustrated book about the best of Britain, showcasing the most notable houses, gardens, landscapes, natural history and artistic treasures. The tour travels through England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, discovering spectacular and iconic landscapes – perfect beaches, dramatic hills, peaceful woods and wildlife reserves – and exploring breathtaking and historic properties, including country houses, castles, cottages, quirky follies and even strange cave houses. Many of the places tell fascinating stories and contain remarkable treasures. From walled gardens to painstakingly perfect topiary to riotously delightful cottage gardens, all sorts of beautiful sites and grand masterpieces are discovered, along with ancient landmarks. Alan Titchmarsh has been the star of many TV shows including ‘Gardeners’ World’ and ‘The Alan Titchmarsh Show’ and has also written 50 gardening books and nine novels. He writes on gardening for various newspapers and lives in Hampshire. Anna Groves is a frequent contributor to National Trust Magazine and editor of guide books for the Trust. Sally Palmer is the editor of the National Trust Magazine, the highest circulating magazine in the UK.

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Woods A Celebr ation

Robert Penn National Trust Books | 9781911358114 | £20.00 September 2017 | HB | Colour photographs throughout 232 pages | 255 x 195 mm

A guide to the natural history surrounding some of Britain’s most iconic woodland This beautiful book is by the bestselling woodsman Robert Penn, author of The Man Who Makes Things Out of Trees. The National Trust manages hundreds of woods, covering over 60,000 acres of England and Wales. They include many of the oldest woodlands in the land and some of the oldest living things of any kind – trees that are thousands of years old. From Dean to Epping, from Hatfield to Sherwood, this book covers the natural history of our forests and how they have changed the face of our landscape. Covering the different species of trees that give our woods their unique characters, the plants and animals that inhabit them and the way their appearance changes throughout the seasons, Woods is a beautifully illustrated celebration of Britain’s trees and the ancient stories that surround them. Robert Penn is an author, journalist, TV presenter and cyclist. He presented ‘Tales from the Wild Wood’ – a six-part series about British woods on BBC4. He is also the author of the The Man Who Makes Things Out of Trees and the bestselling It’s All About the Bike.

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The Queen and crown The Extr aordinary Life of Elizabeth II

Sarah Gristwood Pavilion | 9781911595076 | £16.99 | November 2017 | HB Illustrated throughout | 160 pages | 246 x 189 mm

A lavishly illustrated biography of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II is the most high-profile monarch in the world and this will be the most up-to-date biography available, beautifully illustrated with archival photography. Spanning from 1927 to present day, The Queen and Crown reveals the details of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch’s extraordinary life. Sarah Gristwood follows the twists and turns of Elizabeth Windsor’s life and its key turning points – including her teenage years during the war, meeting and marrying the Duke of Edinburgh, and her accession to the throne in 1952. The extraordinary events in this enduringly popular queen’s life are plotted alongside the everyday duties of her role as monarch. Later chapters outline what it means to be queen and the responsibilities of the role, and then go on to examine the Queen’s Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees, the Royal Wedding and what is to come next for the royal family. Sarah Gristwood is a bestselling biographer and former film journalist. Among her books are two bestselling Tudor biographies, Arbella: England’s Lost Queen and Elizabeth and Leicester; and a biography of a much-loved children’s author: The Story of Beatrix Potter. A regular media commentator on royal and historical affairs, she is also a Fellow of the RSA, and an Honorary Patron of Historic Royal Palaces.

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100 Houses, 100 Years Twentieth Century Society Batsford | 9781849944373 | £25.00 | September 2017 | HB Colour photography throughout | 208 pages | 246 x 189 mm

A visual celebration of Britain’s diverse housing heritage from 1914 to 2014 100 houses tell the story of British housing design in this beautifully produced book from the Twentieth Century Society. One house is showcased for each year from 1914, giving a fascinating insight into the diverse housing styles of the 20th and 21st centuries. There are houses built as part of garden cities, semidetached suburban houses, housing estates, eco-houses, almshouses, converted factories and affordable postwar homes. Each house is accompanied by beautiful photography and text written by leading architectural critics and design historians, including Gavin Stamp, Elain Harwood and Barnabas Calder. The book also contains essays that explore the social and political aspects of housing design in Britain over the last 100 years, making it a must-have for all fans of design history and architecture. The Twentieth Century Society is a British charity that campaigns for the preservation of architectural heritage from 1914 onwards. The society’s interests extend to buildings or artefacts that characterize 20th century Britain. It provides support and advice to architects and planning authorities to protect the best 20th century architecture and design, whether through listing or sympathetic development and management.

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Britain’s Postmodern Buildings Elain Harwood & Geraint Franklin Batsford | 9781849944502 | £25.00 | October 2017 | HB Colour photographs throughout | 176 pages | 246 x 189 mm

A comprehensive and accessible guide to the best of British Postmodern architecture From the striking TV-am studios in Camden to the iconic SIS Building in central London, Elain Harwood, the author of Britain’s Post-War Listed Buildings, celebrates the very best of British buildings that encapsulate this controversial architectural style. Postmodern architecture, which emerged in the 1980s, has been much maligned, categorized as gimmicky, gaudy and lacking in architectural rigour. It developed as a move away from Brutalist architecture and heralded a return to ‘wit, ornament and reference’ adopting both modern and classic designs. The functional and utilitarian shapes and spaces of the modernist style were replaced by diverse aesthetics, including the use of sculptural forms and ornaments. This book gives an illuminating history of the genre, key concepts and characteristics as well as details of each of the key British buildings in the Postmodern style. Elain Harwood is the historian at Historic England responsible for its post-war research and listing programme. Her publications on the subject include many articles for Twentieth Century Architecture, the journal of the Twentieth Century Society, and England’s Post-War Listed Buildings. Geraint Franklin is an architectural historian from Historic England. He is the author of a forthcoming book on the firm Howell Killick Partridge & Amis, to be published in collaboration with RIBA and the Twentieth Century Society.

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How to Love Brutalism John Grindrod Batsford | 9781849944427 | £12.99 | October 2017 | HB 30 line drawings | 160 pages | 192 x 136 mm

A personal and passionate discussion of why controversial Brutalist buildings are loved This book will explain what it is about Brutalist buildings that elicits such strong feeling. It will help readers to understand the true power of concrete, but also consider some of the subtler and lesser-known aspects of Brutalist buildings. Brutalist architecture flourished from the 1950s to the mid-1970s; this architectural style, typified by buildings such as Trellick Tower in London, is controversial, but John Grindrod, who grew up among these buildings, wants to explain his passion. This book will be enlightening for those new to the subject, bringing humour, insight and honesty to the subject, but will also interest those already immersed in built culture. Illustrated with striking drawings, the book is divided up into a series of mini essays that explain the Brutalist world from a human aspect, as well as an architectural, historical and even pop cultural angle. John Grindrod is the author of Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain, described by the Independent on Sunday as ‘a new way of looking at modern Britain’. He has written for the Guardian, Financial Times, the Twentieth Century Society Magazine and The Modernist. He has worked as a bookseller and publisher for over 25 years, currently working at Faber and Faber. He runs the popular website www.dirtymodernscoundrel.com.

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Londonopolis A Curious History of London

Martin Latham

The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf Frances Spalding

Batsford | 9781849944564 | £8.99 | July 2017 | PB

National Trust | 9781911358220 | £16.99 | October 2017 | HB

50 illustrations | 224 pages | 198 x 129 mm

150 photographs & illustrations | 160 pages | 190 x 250 mm

An alternative and quirky history of the great city of London

The moving story of Virginia Woolf, revealed through her own letters

This curious history of London whisks the reader into the warren of backstreets, palaces, markets and museums of the great metropolis. The cockneys, politicians, gangsters and royalty that populate the city are introduced along the way. Readers will find out which tube station once housed the Elgin Marbles and what lies behind a Piccadilly doorway that helped Darwin launch his theory of evolution. Spanning above and below ground and from the medieval period to the modern day, Londonopolis is a celebration of the weird and the wonderful that makes this mysterious city so magical.

Virginia Woolf often wrote as many as six letters a day. This collection is illustrated with contemporary photographs and paintings, many of them by members of the Bloomsbury Group, and aims to evoke the literary and artistic life of the day. The letters, at times witty and irreverent, at times melancholy and introspective, are revealing for their insights into the complex personality of the novelist herself. ‘A true letter’, she insisted, ‘should be like a film of wax pressed close to the graving of the mind’. The book contains biographical notes on the main recipients of the letters, together with background on Virginia’s life and work.

Dr Martin Latham has a PhD in history from London University and was a lecturer at Hertfordshire University before becoming a bookseller. He has managed Waterstones bookshop in Canterbury for 24 years.

Frances Spalding is a writer whose previous books include British Art Since 1900 and biographies of the painters Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell.

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Favourite Poems of the National Trust

Jane McMorland Hunter, illustrated by Jane Robbins

Favourite Poems of England Jane McMorland Hunter

Batsford | 9781849944595 | £9.99 | July 2017 | PB with flaps

192 x 136 mm

Colour illustrations throughout | 176 pages | 192 x 136 mm

An anthology of classic poems perfect for bedside reading

A diverse poetry anthology celebrating England and all that is English

From Chaucer to Carroll, Shakespeare to Shelley, this gorgeous anthology by the National Trust includes all the nation’s favourite poets from through the ages. There is also work by poets who are connected to National Trust properties, such as Vita Sackville-West, who lived at Sissinghurst, and Thomas Hardy, whose cottage is looked after by the National Trust. The poems in this book are organized by themes to make it easy to find a poem that can console or amuse, or for special occasions like readings at christenings and weddings.

From the rolling hills, to those lost in battle over the centuries, to London’s bustling streets and a nation obsessed with the weather, Favourite Poems of England encompasses a breadth of poetry from our most renowned writers, such as William Wordsworth, D. H. Lawrence and William Blake, alongside verses from less prestigious names that equally capture many inspiring visions of our ‘sceptered isle’. The poems are presented alongside stunning illustrations, which pay further tribute to the beauty of this green and pleasant land.

Jane McMorland Hunter has written several books, including Ode to London and Favourite Poems of England. She lives in London. Jane Robbins studied Graphic Design and has taught art as well as working as an artist and designer.

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Shanghai Then and Now

Beijing Then AND Now

Vaughan Grylls

Brian Page

Pavilion | 9781911216926 | £14.99 | December 2017 | HB

Pavilion | 9781911216827 | £14.99 | June 2017 | HB

140 photographs | 144 pages | 244 x 279 mm

Photographs throughout | 144 pages | 244 x 279 mm

Classic archive images matched with the same view today

Over four million of this trademark series sold to date

The breathtaking contrast between past and present make this a fascinating addition to the long-running Then and Now series. Rare archival images of this thrilling cosmopolitan city are matched with specially commissioned photos of the same sites as they appear today. Vaughan Grylls has rounded up the key sites that make up this fascinating and diverse metropolis, from Jesuit cathedrals, Jewish synagogues and Buddhist temples to neoclassical banks, art deco hotels, and the skyscrapers of the Pudong district.

Beijing has been a city of regional importance for many centuries, first becoming the Chinese imperial capital in 1267. The city has been known by various names through the ages, reflecting a turbulent history of change. As the political and cultural heart of modern China, Beijing has grown dramatically since the Communist revolution of 1949. Beijing Then and Now shows how dramatic modernization has affected the city and how, despite all the new building and modern infrastructure, some of the great historic sites have been preserved and maintained.

Vaughan Grylls is a photographer, author and artist. His photography has been shown in the Photographers’ Gallery, Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Arnolfini. He is the author and photographer of Oxford Then and Now, Cambridge Then and Now, Hong Kong Then and Now and Singapore Then and Now.

Brian Page became captivated by China at an early age; his grandparents lived in China from 1915 to 1949 and his mother was born and raised there. He is currently a professor at the University of Colorado.

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