Michael Gilson
Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain
Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain
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Britain's suburban gardens, with their roses and privet hedges, are admired and copied worldwide, but their history of social change in the early twentieth century is often overlooked. "Behind the Privet Hedge" restores the story of Richard Sudell, who advocated for gardens as a means to bring about social change.
Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 01 May 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Britain is a nation of gardeners, and the suburban garden, with its roses and privet hedges, is widely admired and copied across the world. However, the history of how millions across the nation developed an obsession with their colourful plots of land is little understood. Behind the Privet Hedge explores the history of this development and how, despite their stereotype as symbols of dull, middle-class conformity, these new open spaces were seen as a means to bring about social change in the early twentieth century.
Michael Gilson restores to the story a remarkable but long-forgotten figure, Richard Sudell, who spent a lifetime 'evangelizing that the garden be in the vanguard of progress towards a new egalitarian society with everyday beauty at its centre.
Weight: 538g
Dimension: 147 x 223 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789148602
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