New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

English Heritage
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Three Places, Two Nations, One Town
by Adam Menuge, with Catherine Dewar
Berwick-upon-Tweed has been described as a place where an
absorbing historical tale can still be read in the dense fabric of
its old streets and buildings. This book presents something of the
wealth of historic interest encapsulated in Berwick, Tweedmouth
and Spittal, and explains how these places came to assume such
varied and distinctive forms.
112p, 110 col & b/w illus, paperback, 9781848020290, $16.00,
English Heritage, September 2009, Informed Conservation.
Aldington, Craig and Collinge
by Alan Powers
This volume draws on the recollections of the partners and on contemporary
documents to describe the distinctive ideology of Aldington, Craig and
Collinge through their built and unbuilt projects. Powers positions them
against the shifting background of modernism in Britain, in which Aldington
and Craig played a role as educators and polemicists. Co-published by RIBA.
160p, 30 col & 100 b/w illus, paperback, 9781859463024, $40.00,
English Heritage, December 2009, Twentieth-Century Architects.
architecture � conservation
Europe’s Deadly Century
Perspectives on 20th-century Conflict Heritage
edited by Neil Forbes, Robin Page and Guillermo Perez
The physical remains of war, conflict and ideological struggle lie everywhere
around us. The question of what to do with this common past lies
at the center of this important book. From a variety of professional backgrounds,
the contributors consider a wide range of conflict-heritage
sites in the context of international and national histories and regional
and local historical narratives.
c.200p, paperback, 9781848020399, $40.00, English Heritage,
October 2009.
McMorran & Whitby
by Edward Denison
McMorran & Whitby are arguably one of the most unsung practices of post-war
British architecture. Led from the late 1950s by Donald McMorran and George
Whitby, their work found notable favor with public institutions, such as the police,
county and city councils, and universities. This book contains an inspiring
combination of contemporary photography and previously unpublished archival
material. Co-published by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
160p, 30 col & 100 b/w illus, paperback, 9781859463208, $40.00,
English Heritage, December 2009, Twentieth-Century Architects.
Measured and Drawn
Techniques and Practice for the
Metric Survey of Historic Buildings
Second Edition
by David Andrews, Jon Bedford,
Bill Blake, Paul Bryan, Tom Cromwell
and Richard Lea
Metric survey of our historic environment is a crucial
part of our understanding of significant places.
Measured and Drawn shows how, working closely
with historians, conservators and archaeologists,
such records are achieved by metric survey. It is part
of an ongoing series of technical guides on heritage
documentation, and provides an introduction to
the techniques currently available to conservation
professionals and building archaeologists.
64p, 73 col & b/w illus, paperback, 9781873592724,
$30.00, English Heritage, November 2009.
London Wallpapers
Their Manufacture and Use 1690–1840
by Treve Rosoman
In this new, revised edition of the long out-of-print
London Wallpapers, there is a substantially enlarged
list of wallpaper manufacturers in all their various
guises: stationers, paper stainers, paper hanging
manufacturers, paper hangers, etc. Also included
for the first time is a particularly fine watercolor of
a hand-block printer at work c.1880, a time when
the process had achieved its apogee. Methods and
processes for wallpaper making, printing, and
hanging are also covered in detail.
76p, 16 b/w illus, 40 col pls, paperback, 9781848020481,
$40.00, English Heritage, November 2009.
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