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Behind the privet hedge
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- Book Synopsis
- Britain is a nation of gardeners; the suburban garden, with its roses and privet hedges, is widely admired and copied across the world. But it is little understood how millions across the nation developed an obsession with their colourful plots of land. 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.
- About The Author
- Michael Gilson is an award-winning editor and journalist, and Associate Fellow of the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781789148602
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books, (01 May 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 328
- Weight
- 538 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 138 x 32 mm
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