Exploring Rolt's Landscapes: Writing, Heritage and Conservation - Couverture rigide

Boughey, Joseph

 
9781803992716: Exploring Rolt's Landscapes: Writing, Heritage and Conservation
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1803992719 ISBN 13 : 9781803992716
Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

L.T.C. Rolt played a crucial role in the revival of Britain’s inland waterways and pioneered the first preserved narrow-gauge railway. He is still a towering figure in the fields of inland waterways, preserved railways and post-war conservation: a bridge and a locomotive have been named after him, and there is a Rolt Prize, Rolt Fellows and an annual Rolt Lecture.

In this series of linked essays, Joseph Boughey explains aspects of Rolt’s earlier life and work, and sets his writing and practice in a broader context, considering such themes as the landscapes Rolt knew; the nature of travel and ‘country’ writing; the organicist movement of the 1930s and ’40s; English canals and navigable rivers from the 1930s to the ’50s the background to early railway preservation; and the nature of craft, craftspeople and preservation.

Exploring Rolt’s Landscapes focuses on an earlier period of Rolt’s life before he devoted his life to writing professionally. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the rich history of Britain’s waterways.

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À propos de l?auteur

Joseph Boughey is one of Britain's leading living waterways historians, co-author of British Canals: The Standard History. He taught estate management and environmental management and planning at Liverpool John Moores University until 2010. He has written for the Journal of Transport History, the Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society and the Waterways Journal, for which he was on the editorial board. He was a Council member of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, and a Trustee of the Raymond Williams Foundation. He has spoken about Rolt on television and was 'canal consultant' for the series Canals: The Making of A Nation. Since 2013, he has had a regular column in Narrowboat magazine.

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Éditeur
The History Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1803992719
ISBN 13 
9781803992716
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
216
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