About Britain

About Britain is a series of 13 books published by Collins for the Festival of Britain in 1951 under the general editorship of Geoffrey Grigson who also wrote the first two volumes in the series.^[1]^[2]

Titles

West Country by Geoffrey Grigson
Wessex by Geoffrey Grigson
Home Counties by R. S. R. Fitter
East Anglia by R. H. Mottram
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
The Lowlands of Scotland by John R. Allan
Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Alastair M. Dunnett
Northern Ireland by E. Estyn Evans

References

^ Festival of Britain exhibition. University of Reading. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
^ "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. ISBN 9781911576570

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[1] Festival of Britain exhibition. University of Reading. Retrieved 26 July 2019.

[2] "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. ISBN 9781911576570

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