The Regions of Britain (book series)

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 Goldsmith's 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]

The Lake District by Roy Millward, first edition, 1970.

This is an incomplete list of volumes:

Title Date Author
The Lake District1970 (revised ed. 1974)Roy Millward and Adrian Robinson
The Upper Thames1970J. R. L. Anderson[7]
The West Country1972S. H. Burton[3]
Islands of Western Scotland: Inner and Outer Hebrides1973W. H. Murray
The North Country1973G. Bernard Wood
The Scottish Border and Northumberland: Berwickshire, Roxburghshire, Northumberland1973John Talbot White
The Highlands and Islands1974Francis Thompson
The Home Counties1975Marcus Crouch
The Peak District1975Roy Millward and Adrian Robinson
The Cotswolds1977Josceline Finberg
The South East Down and Weald: Kent, Surrey and Sussex1977John Talbot White
The Pennine Dales1978Arthur Raistrick
The Welsh Borders1978Roy Millward and Adrian Robinson
East Anglia1979Peter Steggall

See also

References
  1. "Rural Mappings" by Catherine Brace in Paul J. Cloke (Ed.) (2003). Country Visions. Harlow: Pearson Education. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-13-089601-8.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  2. "What country, friend, is this?" Cella Henderson, The Guardian, 6 July 1974, p. 6.
  3. Jenner, Michael. (1996) Traveller's Companion to the West Country. Godfrey Cave Associates. p. 11. ISBN 1854718266
  4. Muir, Richard. (1997) The Yorkshire Countryside: A Landscape History. Keele University Press. p. 20. ISBN 1853311987
  5. "Country writer's suicide followed redundancy", The Guardian, 27 April 1983, p. 2.
  6. "Obituary: Country writer", The Guardian, 27 April 1983, p. 2.
  7. "'I will go with thee... Guide books reviewed", Adrienne Keith Cohen, The Guardian, 24 May 1975, p. 18.
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