The Story of Bath

Name: The Story of Bath
Brand: The History Press Ltd
SKU: 9780750964029
Price: 22.09 EUR
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English

By (author): Cathryn Spence Dr Cathryn Spence

This richly illustrated history explores the many challenges and triumphs faced by one of Britains most fascinating cities. The Story of Bath charts the long history of this important city from its beginnings in the Roman period through to the present day. Its lively narrative takes in Baths medieval reinvention as a health resort and focuses on its Georgian heyday, when a new classical town was achieved as the elegant backdrop to the social round of polite society. The rediscovery of the Roman Baths and growing industries led to Baths expansion in the late nineteenth century, while the Blitz and the consequent conservation battles of the Sack of Bath are highlighted in the twentieth century. Accompanied by evocative archival images, Cathryn Spence brings to life the many facets of this remarkable World Heritage Site.

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Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
Publication Date: 03 Oct 2016
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780750964029

About Cathryn SpenceDr Cathryn Spence

Dr Cathryn Spence is a museum professional lecturer and historic gardens consultant. She is currently researching the eighteenth-century artist Thomas Robins in preparation for a substantial monograph on the painter and his patrons to be published in 2018. She is the Curator of Archives at the American Museum in Britain and was previously Director of the Building of Bath Museum now the Museum of Bath Architecture. She has also worked at the National Portrait Gallery and the V&A Museum. In addition to her work as a consultant Cathryn is also an independent researcher her specialism being the architectural cultural and social history of Georgian Britain. She wrote a regular monthly column for several years for The Bath Magazine; much of the research undertaken for those articles served as the basis for the four books she has published with The History Press.