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Regional Books Series
The Regional Books was a book series of topographical guides to the British regions published by Robert Hale and Company"Rural Mappings" by Catherine Brace in from 1952. It was edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald
Brian Seymour Vesey-Fitzgerald (1900-1981) was a naturalist and writer of books on wildlife, cats, and dogs.
Life and work
Vesey-Fitzgerald began his career as a journalist with Reuters. He then became the naturalist on the staff of ''The Field ... .
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The Regional Books Torridon Highlands
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Ralph Whitlock
Ralph Whitlock (1914–1995) was a Wiltshire farmer, broadcaster, conservationist, journalist and author of over 100 books. Background and education Whitlock was born in Pitton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire six months before the outbreak of the First World War. He was the son of a tenant farmer, the eldest of three children. His family name is noted on the first parish register in Pitton, where his family had been shepherds and farmers since the early 1600s. Whitlock was later to chronicle the history of his native village in ''The Lost Village'', which noted the changes in Pitton from the 1920s to the 1980s. A subsequent volume, ''The Victorian Village'' recounted 19th century life there. Educated at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, Whitlock had planned to attend university to study history but family circumstances during the Great Depression thwarted any such hopes and he followed his father into farming. Whitlock's collection of correspondence, diaries and papers is housed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hale (publishers)
Robert Hale Limited was a London publisher of fiction and non-fiction books, founded in 1936, and also known as Robert Hale. It was based at Clerkenwell House, Clerkenwell Green. It ceased trading on 1 December 2015 and its imprints were sold to The Crowood Press. Robert Hale Robert Hale was born in 1887/8, and worked in publishing from leaving school.Obituary in ''The Times'' (London, England), Friday, 24 August 1956; page 11; Issue 53618. He was at John Long Ltd., a London firm taken over by Hutchinson & Co. in 1926, when he had become manager there. After the takeover he was managing director of the subsidiary. He moved to Jarrolds Publishing, working with the accountant S. Fowler Wright, another imprint of Hutchinson & Co. In the later 1920s he was a friend of Margery Allingham, a Jarrolds author, and her husband Philip Carter. Hale left Hutchinson & Co. in 1935, founding a company of his own. It was noted for its prolific list, and tight management. His choice of telegrap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books About The United Kingdom
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1950s Books
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of (book Series)
The Portrait of books is a series of topographical works describing the cities, Counties of England, counties, and regions of Britain and some of the regions of France. The series was published by Robert Hale (publishers), Robert Hale from the late 1960s to the early 1980s and is part of a genre of topographical books in which Robert Hale specialised."Rural Mappings" by Catherine Brace in Its immediate predecessors were the County Books series, County Books and The Regional Books (book series), Regional Books series while the The Regions of Britain (book series), Regions of Britain series was published contemporaneously in the 1970s. There was also a Villages series. A number of the Portrait series were republished in new editions titled "The Illustrated Portrait of...". Described variously as neither literature, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Books Series
The County Books series, by Robert Hale and Company of London, covered counties and regions in the British Isles. It was launched in March 1947, and began with Kent, Surrey and Sussex. The series was announced as completed in 1954, in 60 volumes, with ''Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh and the South'' by Maurice Lindsay. The announced intention was to give "a true and lively picture of each county and people". Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald was general editor of the County Books, and he also edited a series of '' Regional Books'' for Robert Hale. Both series were eulogistic about the countryside. The County Books See also * Portrait Books series * The Regional Books The Regional Books was a book series of topographical guides to the British regions published by Robert Hale and Company [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Ellison
Norman F. Ellison (1893–1976) was an English radio presenter and author who made radio programmes about nature and the countryside for the BBC's ''Children's Hour'', under the pseudonym Nomad the Naturalist, and wrote on the same subjects both as Nomad and in his own name. Born in Liverpool in 1893, he signed up as a private in the 1/6th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment, at the outbreak of World War I, and served in the trenches in Belgium. He saw action on The Somme and at Flanders but was discharged in 1917 suffering from trench foot. His war diaries were published in 1997. In later life, he lived at West Kirby, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire. He and Eric Hosking would watch birds together at Hilbre Island. Six of his books were illustrated by his friend Charles Tunnicliffe. Bibliography * ''Down Nature's Byways'', University of London Press, 1938. * ''Out of Doors with Nomad'' (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press, 1947. * ''Our British bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Wightman
Ralph Wightman (26 July 1901 – 28 May 1971) was an English lecturer, journalist, author, and radio and television broadcaster. He wrote many books on farming and the countryside and in the 1950s and 1960s became a well-known national figure, especially as a regular guest on the BBC radio programme ''Any Questions?'' Life A younger son of Tom Wightman, a farmer and butcher of Piddletrenthide in Dorset, Wightman was educated at Beaminster Grammar School and Armstrong College, Newcastle, part of the University of Durham, where he graduated BSc in agricultural chemistry.The Ralph Wightman Story at dorset-ancestors.com, accessed 1 February 2014‘WIGHTMAN, Ralph’, in '' Who Was Who 1971–1980'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1989 reprint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Kaye-Smith
Sheila Kaye-Smith (4 February 1887 – 14 January 1956) was an English writer, known for her many novels set in the borderlands of Sussex and Kent in the English regional tradition. Her 1923 book ''The End of the House of Alard'' became a best-seller, and gave her prominence; it was followed by other successes, and her books enjoyed worldwide sales. Interest in her novel '' Joanna Godden'' (1921) was revived after it was adapted as a film titled ''The Loves of Joanna Godden'' (1947), which had a different conclusion. In the 1980s, this novel and ''Susan Spray'' were reissued by Virago press. Life The daughter of a physician and his wife, Sheila Kaye-Smith was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, near Hastings, in Sussex. She lived most of her life in that county, apart from a period in London in her youth. She was a distant relative of writer M. M. Kaye (''The Far Pavilions''). In 1924 Kaye-Smith married Theodore Penrose Fry, an Anglican clergyman. The following year she published a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wilkinson Addison
Sir William Wilkinson Addison (4 April 1905 – 1 November 1992) was an English historian, writer and jurist. He is significant for his research and books on Essex and East Anglian subjects. Biography William Addison was born in 1905 at Mitton, now in the Ribble Valley of Lancashire, England. His direct ancestors were from King's Meaburn—then Westmorland, now Cumbria—and were 14th-century tenants from Grasmere to Bowness. The Addison family were borough administrators and recorders at Clitheroe, one a Constable of Lancaster Castle, and supported the restoration of parish churches and two grammar schools, one of which, Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, William Addison attended.Kneale, Kenneth (1992); ''Essex Heritage'', Leopards Head Press, pp.3-14. Morris, Richard; "Sir William Addison (1905-1992) – a retrospective" in Loughton and District Historical Society: Newsletter 165', March/April 2005, pp.3-5 After Addison's marriage in 1929 to Phoebe Dean, daughter o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmond Hawkins
Desmond Hawkins, OBE (20 October 1908 – 6 May 1999), born in East Sheen, Surrey, was an author, editor and radio personality. Career The political and artistic upheavals of the 1930s meant a proliferation of serious magazines. Desmond wrote for ''Purpose'', '' The Listener'', '' Time & Tide'' and the ''New Statesman''. He became literary editor of ''Purpose'' and of ''The New English Weekly'', and T. S. Eliot made him fiction chronicler of his critical journal ''The Criterion''. Before the Second World War Desmond had edited two books and had published two novels, the first of which was The Times's novel of the week. Desmond also had programme ideas accepted by the BBC and 1936 saw his first appearance in Radio Times with a programme called ''A Nest of Singing Birds'' – an anthology he compiled of English poets on English birds. Working extensively for the BBC as a freelance, particularly on the Sunday programme ''Country Magazine'' and on the daily ''War Report'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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