The Cotswolds: A Cultural History available in Paperback
- ISBN-10:
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780195398755
- Pub. Date:
- 02/18/2010
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10:
- 0195398750
- ISBN-13:
- 9780195398755
- Pub. Date:
- 02/18/2010
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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ISBN-13: | 9780195398755 |
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Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Publication date: | 02/18/2010 |
Series: | Landscapes of the Imagination |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 272 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.80(d) |
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Table of Contents
Preface & Acknowledgements x
Introduction: "A Country Made of Men's Visions" xiii
Looking at the Land xv
The History of the Cotswolds xvi
Changing Views: Commentators on the Cotswolds xviii
Living Landscape or Heritage Park? xxi
Recent Views: Behind the Pretty Pictures xxii
The Insiders' View xxiv
Imagination and Images xxv
Responses to the Landscape xxv
Chapter 1 Ancient Echoes: From Prehistory to the Coming of the Anglo-Saxons 1
Exploring Belas Knap 1
Tombs from the Stone Age 3
At the Rollright Stones 5
Bronze-Age Survivals 7
Clues from the Celts 7
Remembering the Romans 8
Tracing the Ancient Ways 11
After the Romans 12
Anglo-Saxon Echoes 13
Chapter 2 Finding God in Gloucestershire: Saints, Churches and Cierics 15
Early Abbeys and the Boy Saint of Winchcombe 15
Sacred Sites and Saxon Sculptures 18
Norman Churches and Carvings 19
Stories on Walls 20
Woolgothic Wonders 20
The End of the Abbeys 22
Fame and Fraud at Hailes Abbey 24
Visitors at the Rectory: Jane Austen and John Wesley 26
John Keble at Eastleach 27
Non-Conformism: A Different Way of Worship 29
Selsey Church: Pre-Raphaelite Showcase 29
What Next? 30
Chapter 3 Living off the Land: Sheep, Crops and Stone 31
Wealth from Wool 31
Fields, Commons and Walls 36
Good Times and Bad Times for Farmers 38
Experiments and Communities: Charterville and Whiteway 39
Old Mont of Enstone: A Life on the Land 41
Farming Today: Super-stars and Strugglers 43
The Stone and the Magician: Quarries and Quarrymen 44
Using the Stone: Stonemasons and Dry-stone Wallers 45
Building Today: The Tradition Continues 48
Chapter 4 The Cotswolds at War: Battlefields, Memories and Memorials 49
The Civil War Begins: The Battle of Edgehill 49
Fighting on the Edge: The Battle of Lansdown 52
A Region at War 53
Damage and Confusion 54
The Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold: The End of the Fighting 55
Images of Cavaliers: Stow-on-the-Wold and Swinbrook 56
The Burford Levellers 58
Two World Wars 60
Bertie, May and Mrs. Fish in Wartime 61
Modern Times 62
Chapter 5 Posh Cotswolds: Royalty, Aristocracy and Celebrities 63
Woodstock Palace: Kings and Queens in the Forest 63
Minster Lovell and a Dreadful Doom 67
Sudeley Castle and the Tudors 68
Blenheim Palace: England's Grandest Stately Home 70
Marlboroughs, Vanderbilts and Churchills 72
Dyrham Park and The Remains of the Day 73
Chastleton and Stanway: Houses with Memories 74
New Owners for Old Homes 75
Chapter 6 Mills, Steam and Machinery: The Industrial Age 77
Hard Labour at Castle Combe 77
"A Truly Noble Manufacture" 79
The Coming of the Machines 82
John Halifax, Gentleman: Perfect Progress at Dunkirk Mill? 83
"They Say the Suffering is Very Great Indeed" 85
Changing Trades 87
Blankets and Bliss in Oxfordshire 87
Carving up the Landscape: Roads and Canals 09
Great Railway Adventures: Isambard Kingdom Brunel 92
Train-Spotting in the Cotswolds: The Reverend Awdry 95
Chapter 7 "Heaven on Earth": William Morris at Kelmscott Manor and Broadway Tower 97
William and Janey 99
"A Little House out of London" 100
A Serpent in Paradise 101
The "Old Grey House by the River" 104
Later Years at Kelmscott 106
Kelmscott Today 108
Views from Broadway Tower 110
Chapter 8 Seeking the Simple Life: Arts and Crafts in Sapperton and Chipping Campden 113
Back to the Land: In Search of a Rural Alternative 115
Gimson and the Barnsleys: The Start of a Dream 115
Pinbury Park: A Workshop in the Woods 117
Settling in at Sapperton 119
Ernest Gimson: Master Designer 120
Ashbee's Vision: The Start of the Guild of Handicrafts 121
Creating Camelot: The Guild at Chipping Campden 122
Good Years for the Guild 125
The End of the Dream 126
Chipping Campden Today 127
Chapter 9 Arty Crafty Cotswolds: The Next Generation 129
Campden Crafts 129
Fine Furniture in Broadway 131
Plain Pottery in Winchcombe 133
Women Designers in the Cotswolds 135
"Arty Crafty" Lifestyles 137
Designing Cotswold Homes 138
Owlpen Manor: "Resuscitated Dream-Place" 139
Arts and Crafts on Display: Two Museums and Rodmarton Manor 141
Cotswold Crafts Today 142
Chapter 10 A Cotswold Life: Laurie Lee in the Slad Valley 143
Lees in the Valley 143
Scenes from Slad 145
After Rosie 146
Return to Slad 148
A Child in the Valley 149
The Return of the Native? 149
Slad Today 150
Chapter 11 Picturing the Scene: Writers, Artists and Musicians in the Cotswolds 153
William Shakespeare: "Wild Hills" and Justice Shallow's country 154
On Bredon Hill with Housman 156
Ivor Gurney: Poetry and Music at Cranham and Crickley 156
James Elroy Flecker on Painswick Hill 158
Hilaire Belloc: A Brief Voyage on the Evenlode 160
A Poet Laureate in Chipping Campden 160
A Supertramp in Nailsworrh 162
T. S. Eliot at Burnt Norton 164
U. A. Fanthorpe at Wotton-under-Edge 166
John Buchan's Adventures in Wychwood Forest 167
J. B. Priesdey's Hitherton-on-the-Wole 168
Barbara Pym in Finstock 169
Jilly (and Joanna) in Rutshire 170
Artists and Writers in Broadway 171
The View from Far Oakridge: Rothenstein, Beerbohm and Drinkwater 174
Stanley Spencer in Leonard Stanley 175
Music from the Cotswolds: Vaughan Williams and Holst 177
Chapter 12 Eccentric Cotswolds: Collectors, Dreamers and Dangerous Games 179
Snowshill Manor: A House of Curiosities 179
"Curiouser and Curiouser" 181
Sezincote House: A Mogul Fantasy 183
Batsford Arboretum: Inspiration from the East 185
Mitfords in the Cotswolds 185
A Very Unusual Childhood 187
Games, Quarrels and Horror at Swinbrook 188
Swinbrook Today 190
Woodchesrer Mansion: The House That Was Never a Home 191
Toddington Manor: Damien Hirst's Treasure Cave 194
Chapter 13 Shaping the Landscape: Gardens and Gardeners in the Cotswolds 197
Cirencester Park: Alexander Pope's "Enchanted Forest" 198
Eighteenth-Century Elegance: Rousham, Painswick and Stanway 199
Capability Brown at Blenheim 201
Humphry Repton (and Jane Austen) in the Cotswolds 202
Chastleton House: A Jacobean Wonderland 203
Owlpen Manor: Gardens of Paradise 204
Arts and Crafts Gardens in the Cotswolds 205
Major Lawrence Johnson at Hidcote Manor 205
Two Women's Visions: Kiftsgate Court and Barnsley House 206
The Gardener Prince at Highgrove 208
Chapter 14 The Cotswolds at Play: Sports, Games and Leisure Pursuits 211
Hunting Country 213
Equestrian Spores 213
Ancient Races 215
Cricket on the Wolds 215
The Cotswold Olimpicks 217
Festivals, Fairs and Merrymaking 219
Cheese Rolling, River Football and Other Strange Pursuits 220
Morris Dancers (And Some Strong Reactions) 221
Leisure and Pleasure 223
The Heart of England: Rambling and Ramblers 224
Further Reading 227
Index of Literary, Artistic & Historical Names 235
Index of Places & Landmarks 240