About Britain is a series of 13 books published by Collins for the

Festival of Britain The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition and fair that reached millions of visitors throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951. Historian Kenneth O. Morgan says the Festival was a "triumphant success" during which people: ...

in 1951 under the general editorship of

Geoffrey Grigson Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (2 March 1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist and naturalist. In the 1930s he was editor of the influential magazine ''New Verse'', and went on to p ...

who also wrote the first two volumes in the series."About Britain: driving the landscape of Britain (at speed?)"
by Tim Cole in Jon Agar & Jacob Ward (Eds.) (2018) ''Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain''. London: UCL Press. pp. 123-141.

Titles

# ''West Country'' by Geoffrey Grigson # ''Wessex'' by Geoffrey Grigson # ''Home Counties'' by R. S. R. Fitter # ''East Anglia'' by

R. H. Mottram Ralph Hale Mottram FRSL (30 October 1883 – 16 April 1971) was an English writer. A lifelong resident of Norfolk, he was well known as a novelist, in particular for his "Spanish Farm trilogy",Cameron SelfMousehold Heath, Norwichin ''Literary Nor ...

# ''Chilterns to Black Country'' by W. G. Hoskins # ''South Wales and the Marches'' by W. J. Gruffydd # ''North Wales and the Marches'' by W. J Gruffydd # ''East Midlands and the Peak'' by W. G. Hoskins # ''Lancashire and Yorkshire'' by Leo Walmsley # ''The Lakes to Tyneside'' by

Sid Chaplin Sid Chaplin (20 September 191611 January 1986) was an English writer whose works (novels, television screenplays, poetry and short stories) are mostly set in the north-east of England, in the 1940s and 1950s. Biography Chaplin was born into ...

# ''The Lowlands of Scotland'' by John R. Allan # ''Highlands and Islands of Scotland'' by Alastair M. Dunnett # ''Northern Ireland'' by E. Estyn Evans

References

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* Books about the United Kingdom 1951 non-fiction books Series of non-fiction books {{UK-book-stub