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The English Pleasure Garden 1660–1860

Author : Sarah Jane Downing
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747806998
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The English Pleasure Garden 1660–1860 written by Sarah Jane Downing and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During their heyday in the mid-eighteenth century the pleasure gardens were one of the hubs of polite society. Laid out with formal gardens and buildings for dining and amusement, the pleasure gardens were the scene of upper class exercise and entertainment. Most famous were Vauxhall Gardens, Cremorne Gardens and Ranelagh Gardens. In Bath, Sydney Gardens is the only English pleasure garden that has not since been closed and built over. This book tells the story of the pleasure gardens, explaining their beginnings in the seventeenth century, their rising social importance, the variety of entertainment contained within, and their eventual decline into seedy hangouts for gamblers, thieves and prostitutes.

The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century

Author : Warwick William Wroth
Publisher : London, MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century written by Warwick William Wroth and published by London, MacMillan. This book was released on 1896 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1896 volume offers the British Museum curator's scholarly examination of London's eighteenth-century pleasure gardens.

Street Trees in Britain

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1911188240
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Street Trees in Britain written by Mark Johnston and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trees which line many of the streets in our towns and cities can often be regarded as part of a heritage landscape. Despite the difficult conditions of an urban environment, these trees may live for 100 years or more and represent Ôliving historyÕ in the midst of our modern streetscapes. This is the first book on the history of BritainÕs street trees and it gives a highly readable, authoritative and often amusing account of their story, from the tree-lined promenades of the seventeenth century to the majestic boulevards that grace some of our modern city centers. The impact of the Victorian street tree movement is examined, not only in the major cities but also in the rapidly developing suburbs that continued to expand through the twentieth century. There are fascinating descriptions of how street trees have helped to improve urban conditions in spa towns and seaside resorts and also in visionary initiatives such as the model villages, garden cities, garden suburbs and new towns. While much of the book focuses on the social and cultural history of our street trees, the last three chapters look at the practicalities of how these trees have been engineered into concrete landscapes. This includes the many threats to street trees over the years, such as pollution, conflict with urban infrastructure, pests and diseases and what is probably the greatest threat in recent times Ð the dramatic growth in car ownership. Street Trees in Britain will have particular appeal to those interested in heritage landscapes, urban history and the natural and built environment. Some of its themes were introduced in the authorÕs previous work, the widely acclaimed Trees in Towns and Cities: A History of British Urban Arboriculture.

Trees in Towns and Cities

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1909686654
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Trees in Towns and Cities written by Mark Johnston and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on the history of trees in Britain’s towns and cities and the people who have planted and cared for them. It is a highly readable and authoritative account of the trees in our urban landscapes from the Romans to the present day, including public parks, private gardens, streets, cemeteries and many other open spaces. It charts how our appreciation of urban trees and woodland has evolved into our modern understanding of the many environmental, economic and social benefits of our urban forests. A description is also given of the various threats to these trees over the centuries, such as pollution damage during the Industrial Revolution and the recent ravages of Dutch elm disease. Central and local government initiatives are examined together with the contribution of civic and amenity societies. However, this historical account is not just a catalogue of significant events but gives a deeper analysis by exploring fundamental issues such as who owned those treed landscapes, why they were created and who had access to them. The book concludes with the fascinating story of how trees have contributed to efforts to improve urban conditions through various ‘visions of urban green’ such as the model villages, garden cities, garden suburbs and the new towns. Studies in garden and landscape history have often been preoccupied with those belonging to the rich and powerful. This book focuses particularly on working people and the extent to which they have been able to enjoy urban trees and greenspace. It will appeal to a general readership, especially those with an interest in garden history, heritage landscapes and the natural and built environment. Its meticulous referencing will also ensure it is much appreciated by students and academics pursuing further reading and research. It is written by an internationally renowned arboriculturist who combines a passion for trees with a sound understanding of British social and cultural history.

Brass Bands of the British Isles 1800-2018 - a historical directory

Author : Gavin Holman
Publisher : Gavin Holman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brass Bands of the British Isles 1800-2018 - a historical directory written by Gavin Holman and published by Gavin Holman. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the many brass bands that have flourished in Britain and Ireland over the last 200 years very few have documented records covering their history. This directory is an attempt to collect together information about such bands and make it available to all. Over 19,600 bands are recorded here, with some 10,600 additional cross references for alternative or previous names. This volume supersedes the earlier “British Brass Bands – a Historical Directory” (2016) and includes some 1,400 bands from the island of Ireland. A separate work is in preparation covering brass bands beyond the British Isles. A separate appendix lists the brass bands in each county

The Tree Experts

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1911188917
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book The Tree Experts written by Mark Johnston and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trees are now in the public eye as never before. The threat of tree diseases, the felling of street trees, and the challenge of climate change are just some of the issues that have put trees in the media spotlight. At the same time, the trees in our parks, gardens, and streets are a vital resource that can deliver environmental, social, and economic benefits that make our towns and cities attractive, green, and healthy places. Ever since Roman times when amenity trees were first planted in Britain, caring for those trees has required specialist skills. This is mainly because of the challenges of successfully integrating large trees into the urban environment and the risks involved in working with them, often at height and in close proximity to people, buildings and roads. But who are the people with the specialist expertise to care for our amenity trees? While professionals such as horticulturists, landscape architects, conservationists and foresters have a role to play, it is the arboriculturists who are the ‘tree experts’. For centuries arboriculture was often synonymous with forestry or considered an aspect of horticulture, until it emerged in the nineteenth century as a separate discipline. There are now some 22,000 people employed in Britain’s arboricultural industry, including practical tree surgeons and arborists, local authority tree officers, and arboricultural consultants. This is the first book to trace the history of Britain’s professional tree experts, from the Roman arborator to the modern chartered arboriculturist. It also discusses the influences from continental Europe and North America that have helped to shape British arboriculture over the centuries. The Tree Experts will have particular appeal to those interested in the natural and built environment, heritage landscapes, social history, and the history of gardening.

The Brass Band Bibliography

Author : Gavin Holman
Publisher : Gavin Holman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brass Band Bibliography written by Gavin Holman and published by Gavin Holman. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 9th edition, 2019. A comprehensive list of books, articles, theses and other material covering the brass band movement, its history, instruments and musicology; together with other related topics (originally issued in book form in January 2009)

The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century

Author : Warwick William Wroth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784863400269
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century written by Warwick William Wroth and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Amusement Park

Author : Jason Wood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317045130
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Amusement Park written by Jason Wood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyclone, Revolution, Corkscrew; Luna Park, Pleasure Beach, Dreamland – names and places instantly familiar to rollercoaster and amusement park enthusiasts. But what first gave rise to the concept and nomenclature of the amusement park; how did amusement parks develop in Britain and elsewhere, and what fate awaits historic amusement parks and their rides today? This thought-provoking and timely book brings together leading writers from a variety of disciplines to explore the social history and cultural heritage of the amusement park. Rooted in the British experience but informed by extensive international coverage, it provides a thematic, comparative exploration of the origins, development, decline and significance of the amusement park. The rich set of case studies presented comment on the interrelationships between history, culture and heritage, challenging traditional academic boundaries while offering important contributions to policy-making and regeneration initiatives. The book provides new insights into a neglected aspect of popular culture and will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of history, heritage, tourism, leisure, technology and design.

Pastimes and Pleasures in the Time of Jane Austen

Author : Sarah Jane Downing
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445677806
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Pastimes and Pleasures in the Time of Jane Austen written by Sarah Jane Downing and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated and engaging look at the social activities, games and hobbies during the Regency period in the time of Jane Austen.

Tea Gardens

Author : Twigs Way
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144567002X
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Tea Gardens written by Twigs Way and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part garden history, part social history, this is the first book to celebrate the story of the British tea garden, born in the eighteenth century, at its height in the Edwardian era, and now undergoing a serious revival.

Gardens of History and Imagination

Author : Gretchen Poiner
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743324561
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Gardens of History and Imagination written by Gretchen Poiner and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether on the ground or in the mind gardens carry meaning. They reflect social and aesthetic values and may express hope, anticipation or grief. Throughout history they have provided a means of physical survival. In creating and maintaining gardens people construe and construct a relationship with their environment. But there is no single meaning carried in the word ‘garden’: as idea and practice it reflects cultural differences in beliefs, values and social organisation. It embodies personal, community even national ways of seeing and being in the world. There are ten essays in Gardens of History and Imagination, each of which examines the role of gardens and gardening in the settlement of New South Wales and in growing a colony and a state. They explore the significance of gardens for the health of the colony, for its economy, for the construction of social order and moral worth. No less do they reveal the significance of forming and reforming personal identities in this process. For the immigrants gardening was an act of settlement; it was also a statement of possession for individuals and for Britain. For a long time it was with memories of ‘home’, often selective and idealised, that settlers made gardens but as the colony developed its own character so did gardening possibilities and practices.

The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century

Author : Warwick Wroth
Publisher : Baltzell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781446075739
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century written by Warwick Wroth and published by Baltzell Press. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Musicians of Bath and Beyond

Author : Nicholas Temperley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270780
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Musicians of Bath and Beyond written by Nicholas Temperley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index of Edward Loder's compositions -- General Index

This Must Be The Place

Author : Robert Kronenburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501319302
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book This Must Be The Place written by Robert Kronenburg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Must Be The Place is the first architectural history of popular music performance space, describing its beginnings, its different typologies, and its development into a distinctive genre of building design. It examines the design and form of popular music architecture and charts how it has been developed in ad-hoc ways by non-professionals such as building owners, promoters, and the musicians themselves as well as professionally by architects, designers, and construction specialists. With a primary focus on Europe and North America (and excursions to Australia, the Far East and South America), it explores audience experience and how venues have influenced the development of different musical scenes. From music halls and Vaudeville in the 1800s, via the seminal clubs and theatres of the 20th century, to the large-scale multi-million-dollar arena concerts of today, this book explores the impact that the use of private and public space for performance has on our cities' urban identity, and, to a lesser extent, how rural space is perceived and used. Like architecture, popular music is neither static nor standardized; it continuously develops and has multiple strands. This Must Be The Place describes the factors that have determined the development of music venue architecture, focusing on both famous and less well-known examples from the smallest bar room music space to the largest stadium-filling rock set.

Mega-events and social change

Author : Maurice Roche
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152611710X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Mega-events and social change written by Maurice Roche and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies. This book is concerned with contemporary mega-events, like the Olympics and Expos. Using a sociological perspective Roche argues that mega-events reflect the major social changes which now influence our societies, particularly in the West, and that these amount to a new ‘second phase’ of the modernization process. Changes are particularly visible in the media, urban and global locational aspects of mega-events. Thus he suggests that contemporary mega-events, both in their achievements and their vulnerabilities, reflect, in the media sphere, the rise of the internet; in the urban sphere, de-industrialisation and the growing ecological crisis; and in the global sphere, the relative decline of the West and the rise of China and other ‘emerging’ countries.