Britains Living Past is a celebration of the best of the past, featuring traditions, pastimes, and working practices that still matter to the community. It showcases the rich diversity of historic survivors, from maritime traditions to circus performances, and includes skilled people at work.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Britain's Living Past is a captivating celebration of the best of the past, preserving traditions, pastimes, and working practices that continue to matter to communities today. Author Tony Burton and photographer Rob Scott have embarked on a journey across the length and breadth of the nation, capturing the amazing sights and experiences that have shaped our history. From the maritime heritage of shipwrights and rope makers to the organized chaos of Ashbourne Tuesday football matches and the exotic spectacle of Giffords traditional circus, the book brings to life centuries-old traditions that are still an integral part of everyday modern life.

Britain's Living Past: A Celebration of the Best of the Past

Britain's Living Past is a celebration of the best of the past, of things that have been preserved because they still matter to the community. It is a book in which the emphasis is very much on the word 'living'; looking at traditions, pastimes, and working practices, some centuries old, that survive today not as museum pieces or in pages of a history book but as part of everyday modern life.

From Reminders of Britain's Great Maritime Past to the Organized Mayhem of Ashbourne Tuesday Football Match

From reminders of Britain's great maritime past in the crafts of the shipwright and the rope maker, to the organized mayhem that is the Ashbourne Tuesday football match and the exotic splendor of Giffords traditional circus, writer Tony Burton and photographer Rob Scott have traveled the length and breadth of our great nation to recreate for the reader the amazing sights they have seen. Together they have traveled from Shetland in the far north to the tip of Cornwall. They have sailed along the Scottish coast in a paddle steamer and learned how to make Melton Mowbray pork pies by hand. They have watched ponies galloping through the streets of Appleby and resisted the temptation to try too many of the sweets in the world's oldest sweet shop.

A Book That Delights in the Rich Diversity of Our Historic Survivors

This is a book that delights in the rich diversity of our historic survivors. For both author and photographer it has been a pleasure to witness many skilled people at work: to discover the complexity of building a fairground organ or to marvel at the skill and athleticism of circus performers. This is a book of rich variety that celebrates the great survivors from our islands history.

Weight: 1240g
Dimension: 260 x 255 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781844865444