Ravilious in Picture

Ravilious in Picture
Author: James Russell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: North Downs (England)
ISBN: 9780955277733

Sussex in Photographs

Sussex in Photographs
Author: Philip Bedford
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2020-03-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1445693135

A stunning collection of images showcasing the scenic splendour, intrinsic character and contrasting treasures of Sussex through the seasons.

All in the Downs

All in the Downs
Author: Shirley Collins
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2018-06-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1907222413

A memoir from one of Britain's legendary singers, folklorists, and music historians. A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral part of the folk-music revival for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, All in the Downs, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life. All in the Downs combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016. Through it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. All in the Downs pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land. Generously illustrated with rare archival material.

The Shaping of the Sussex Landscape

The Shaping of the Sussex Landscape
Author: Peter Brandon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2009-12-16
Genre: Human geography
ISBN: 9781906022167

How did Sussex get to look like what it looks like today? What does its distinctive landscape tell us about how people lived and worked in the past? What impact have invasion, technology, war and, most importantly, sheep made on it? This book explores how today's landscape is the joint and ongoing creation of nature's long shift.

The South Country

The South Country
Author: Edward Thomas
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2015-05-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1473395909

This early work by Edward Thomas was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The South Country' is one of Thomas's works on the subject of nature. Philip Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth, London, England in 1878. His parents were Welsh migrants, and Thomas attended several schools, before ending up at St. Pauls. Thomas led a reclusive early life, and began writing as a teenager. He published his first book, The Woodland Life (1897), at the age of just nineteen. A year later, he won a history scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford. Despite being less well-known than other World War I poets, Thomas is regarded by many critics as one of the finest.

Ravilious in Pictures

Ravilious in Pictures
Author: James Russell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2010
Genre: War in art
ISBN: 9780955277740

'Ravilious in Pictures: The War Paintings' celebrates and commemorates the wartime career of Eric Ravilious, who died on active service in Iceland at the age of 39. One of a series of books, it creates a vivid portrait both of the artist himself and of life in wartime Britain.

The South Downs

The South Downs
Author: Peter Brandon
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2022-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0750998350

The South Downs has throughout history been a focus of English popular culture. With chalkland, their river valleys and scarp-foot the Downs have been shaped for over millennia by successive generations of farmers, ranging from Europe's oldest inhabitants right up until the 21st century. "... possibly the most important book to have been written on the South Downs in the last half-century ... The South Downs have found their perfect biographer." Downs Country.

Landscapes at Risk?

Landscapes at Risk?
Author: Edward Holdaway
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135158886

The purpose of this book is to examine the role that Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) have in the protection of the landscape. The authors draw upon experience in the UK and abroad.

The Wild Places

The Wild Places
Author: Robert Macfarlane
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2008-06-24
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1440638659

From the author of The Old Ways and Underland, an "eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth's surface." --Bill McKibben Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a finalist for the Orion Book Award Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question that Robert Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a series of breathtaking journeys through some of the archipelago's most remarkable landscapes. He climbs, walks, and swims by day and spends his nights sleeping on cliff-tops and in ancient meadows and wildwoods. With elegance and passion he entwines history, memory, and landscape in a bewitching evocation of wildness and its vital importance.

Environment, Archaeology and Landscape: Papers in honour of Professor Martin Bell

Environment, Archaeology and Landscape: Papers in honour of Professor Martin Bell
Author: Catherine Barnett
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803270853

Dedicated to Martin Bell (University of Reading), this book outlines how wetland and inland environments can be related and investigated using multi-method approaches. Papers fall under three themes: coastal and intertidal archaeology; mobility and human-environment relationships; heritage resource management, nature conservation and rewilding.