Britain then & now / Philip Ziegler.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ziegler, Philip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• History.
• Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Pictorial works.
• Great Britain--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
• Great Britain--Pictorial works.
• Great Britain.
• Frith, Francis.

Genre:

• Pictorial works.
• Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

432 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Britain then and now

Place of Publication:

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.

Summary:

• In the Century and A Half since Francis Frith took his first photographs the face of Britain has changed dramatically. Hamlets have become villages, villages towns, towns cities. The canals have silted up, the railways have had their reign, now the car and the lorry rule supreme. Monumental buildings have been destroyed, new ones have arisen; woods have vanished; roads scar the landscape; hedges have been rooted up. Three generations of Friths and now a photographic postscript by John Cleare record this process in stunning detail and fidelity.
• In his informed and incisive text, Philip Ziegler explains how these changes happened and what they meant to the men and women who lived in those houses, tilled those fields, admired those shop windows, ventured out on those new-fangled bicycles.
• Together pictures and text provide a chronicle of Britain since 1860 which is incomparable in scope and richness.

Contents:

• The Friths 6
• A Photographer's View 14
• The Changing Face of Britain 16
• Part 1 Britain 22
• London 24
• Cities 42
• Towns 60
• Villages 84
• Coast & Countryside 108
• Part 2 The British at Work and Play 132
• Advertising 134
• Beside the Seaside 148
• Communicating 174
• Dressing 186
• Eating & Drinking 206
• Farming 222
• Fishing 244
• Learning 262
• Mining 282
• Playing 292
• Praying 318
• Shopping 336
• Travelling by Rail 358
• Travelling by Road 378
• Travelling by Water 400.

Notes:

• "The Francis Frith Collection."
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-425) and index.

ISBN:

0297823906

OCLC:

44162837