The Regions of Britain (book series)

The Lake District by Roy Millward, first edition, 1970.

The Regions of Britain is a book series of topographical guides to the British regions published by Robert Hale and Company,[1] by Eyre & Spottiswoode and by Eyre Methuen in the 1970s. The series included a blend of historical and contemporary material[2] and it was the practice of the publishers to use authors native to the regions they wrote about such as S. H. Burton of Devon[3] who wrote about the West Country, Marcus Crouch on the Home Counties was from Middlesex, and Arthur Raistrick who wrote about the Pennines was from Yorkshire.[4] John Talbot White, a noted naturalist of Goldsmiths College,[5] wrote two volumes for the series including on Kent, Surrey and Sussex, an area of Britain about which he wrote three other books after having become fascinated by it after he was evacuated from London to the Kent/Sussex border as a boy during the Second World War.[6]

This is an incomplete list of volumes:

Title Date Author
The Lake District 1970 (revised ed. 1974) Roy Millward and Adrian Robinson
The Upper Thames 1970 J. R. L. Anderson[7]
The West Country 1972 S. H. Burton[3]
Islands of Western Scotland: Inner and Outer Hebrides 1973 W. H. Murray
The North Country 1973 G. Bernard Wood
The Scottish Border and Northumberland: Berwickshire, Roxburghshire, Northumberland 1973 John Talbot White
The Highlands and Islands 1974 Francis Thompson
The Home Counties 1975 Marcus Crouch
The Peak District 1975 Roy Millward and Adrian Robinson
The Cotswolds 1977 Josceline Finberg
The South East Down and Weald: Kent, Surrey and Sussex 1977 John Talbot White
The Pennine Dales 1978 Arthur Raistrick
The Welsh Borders 1978 Roy Millward and Adrian Robinson
East Anglia 1979 Peter Steggall

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Rural Mappings" by Catherine Brace in Paul J. Cloke, ed. (2003). Country Visions. Harlow: Pearson Education. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-13-089601-8.
  2. ^ "What country, friend, is this?" Cella Henderson, The Guardian, 6 July 1974, p. 6.
  3. ^ a b Jenner, Michael. (1996) Traveller's Companion to the West Country. Godfrey Cave Associates. p. 11. ISBN 1854718266
  4. ^ Muir, Richard. (1997) The Yorkshire Countryside: A Landscape History. Keele University Press. p. 20. ISBN 1853311987
  5. ^ "Country writer's suicide followed redundancy", The Guardian, 27 April 1983, p. 2.
  6. ^ "Obituary: Country writer", The Guardian, 27 April 1983, p. 2.
  7. ^ "'I will go with thee... Guide books reviewed", Adrienne Keith Cohen, The Guardian, 24 May 1975, p. 18.
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