The Face of Britain (book series)

The Face of Britain was a series of topographical books published by B. T. Batsford from the 1930s to the 1950s that has been described as playing a part in the construction of English identity in that period.[1] The series is notable for the covers by Brian Batsford, who worked under the name Brian Cook.[2]

Cover of Lancashire and the Pennines by Frank Singleton. Designed by Brian Cook.

Volumes

This list may be incomplete.

England
  • Chiltern Country by H. J. Massingham (1940)
  • Cotswold Country by H. J. Massingham (1941)
  • East Anglia: A survey of England's eastern counties, etc. by Doreen Wallace (1939, 2nd 1943)
  • English Downland by H. J. Massingham (1936)
  • English Lakeland by Doreen Wallace (1940)
  • The Home Counties by S. P. B. Mais (1942) (2nd edition 1947)[3]
  • The Islands of England: A survey of the islands around England and Wales, and the Channel Islands by J. H. Ingram (1952)
  • Lancashire and the Pennines. A survey of Lancashire, and parts of Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire. by Frank Singleton (1952)
  • Lincolnshire and the Fens by M. W. Barley (1952)
  • Midland England by W. G. Hoskins (1949)
  • North Country by Edmund Vale (1937)
  • North Midland Country: A survey of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire by J. H. Ingram (1948)
  • Shakespeare's Country by John Russell (1942)
  • South-Eastern Survey. A last look round Sussex, Kent and Surrey ... Illustrated from the author's photographs. by Richard Wyndham (1940). Revised as South-East England by Ronald Jessup.
  • Wessex: Dorset, Wiltshire, with West Berkshire & East Somerset by Ralph Dutton (1950)
  • West Country by C. Henry Warren (1938)

Scotland

Wales
  • The Face of Wales by Tudor Edwards (1950)
  • Welsh Border Country by P. Thoresby Jones (1938)

(Northern) Ireland
  • The Face of Ulster: Antrim, Londonderry, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Armagh, Monaghan, Cavan, Donegal and Down by Denis O`Donoghue Hanna (1952)

The television series "Penelope Keith's Hidden Villages" was based on the book series.

See also

References
  1. Brace, Catherine (2001). "Publishing and Publishers: Towards an Historical Geography of Countryside Writing, c. 1930-1950". Area. 33 (3): 287–296. doi:10.1111/1475-4762.00032. ISSN 0004-0894. JSTOR 20004166.(subscription required)
  2. "The Colourful World of graphic artist Brian Cook (1910-1991)". Derbyshire Life and Countryside. 4 August 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  3. "The Home Counties by S. P. B. Mais", Norah Richardson, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Vol. 92, No. 4677 (27 Oct. 1944), p. 633.
  4. "The Highlands of Scotland by Hugh Quigley, R. M. Adam", review by P. B., Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Vol. 84, No. 4370 (21 August 1936), pp. 1042-1043.

Further reading
  • Batsford, Brian Cook. (1987) The Britain of Brian Cook. London: Batsford. ISBN 0713457007


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