The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker
The story of Britain through its census, since 1801
$32.36
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
12 December 2017
Summary
At the beginning of each decade for 200 years, the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles.
The census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic Wars to the age of the internet, through the agricultural and industrial revolutions, possession of the biggest empire on earth, and the devastation of the 20th century’s two World Wars.
In The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker, Roger Hutchinson looks at every census between the first in 1801…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349141220 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349141223 |
| Author: | Roger Hutchinson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 12 December 2017 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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A quirky mix of broad-sweep history and fascinating nuggets of fact or biography … Hutchinson traces the real-life social changes behind Flora Thompson’s Lark Rise novels, winkles out Britain’s longest-lived citizens and its most prolific mother (Mary Jonas, who bore 33 children before dying aged 85 in 1899). But beneath these eye- catching incidental details lie deeper swells - Evening Standard
A warm-hearted book about a uniquely British triumph, a resource of a depth unrivalled anywhere in the world … His achievement, beneath the joy of the detail, teeming with Dickensian energy, is to suggest that the census is also a story of enterprise, vision, trust and reliability - a force of enlightenment. This is not a dense book. Rather it is light, wry and compassionate - The TimesCompelling … Hutchinson’s book is a sobering reminder of how often we have ignored facts and listened to panic merchants - Sunday TelegraphAbout The Author
Roger Hutchinson
Roger Hutchinson is a full-time writer living on the island of Raasay. Born in 1949 he launched and edited the radical magazine Styng in the north of England, before moving to London and becoming editor of both Oz and IT in the early seventies. In 1975 he became a freelance journalist and went on to author several books on subjects as diverse as the professional tennis circuit, the Royal Family, Bruce Lee and man-eating sharks. Two years later he moved to Skye and joined the West Highland Free Press. He is currently a feature journalist, columnist and reviewer for the WHFP, Scotsman, Herald, Guardian and the Press & Journal. He has won several awards, including North of Scotland Feature Writer of the Year and UK Weekly Sports Writer of the Year. His last book, The Soap Man, was short-listed for The Saltire Book of the Year Award.
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