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