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- طول المنتج
- 12.9 سم
- ارتفاع المنتج
- 19.8 سم
- عرض/عمق المنتج
- 4.8 سم
- الكاتب 1
- Simon Bradley
- تنسيق الكتاب
- غلاف ورقي عادي
- اللغة
- الإنجليزية
- الناشر
- Profile Books
- تاريخ النشر
- 6/10/2016
- وصف الكتاب
- ritain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism. As a self-contained world governed by distinctive rules and traditions, the network also exerts a fascination all its own.
From the classical grandeur of Newcastle station to the ceaseless traffic of Clapham Junction, from the mysteries of Brunel's atmospheric railway to the lost routines of the great marshalling yards, Simon Bradley explores the world of Britain's railways, the evolution of the trains, and the changing experiences of passengers and workers. The Victorians' private compartments, railway rugs and footwarmers have made way for air-conditioned carriages with airline-type seating, but the railways remain a giant and diverse anthology of structures from every period, and parts of the system are the oldest in the world.
Using fresh research, keen observation and a wealth of cultural references, Bradley weaves from this network a remarkable story of technological achievement, of architecture and engineering, of shifting social classes and gender relations, of safety and crime, of tourism and the changing world of work. The Railways shows us that to travel through Britain by train is to journey through time as well as space.
- المراجعة التحريرية
- The Railways - history book of the year: Bradley's loving tribute to the golden age of the railway is a magnificent achievement ... a gorgeous Christmas pudding of a book ... Most eye-catching are the superbly crafted chapters on accidents and murders, yet where his book really shines is in its portraits of the British themselves ... His book is so colourful, so rich and engaging, that even if you don't like railways you should love it. (Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times 2015-11-29)
Simon Bradley's The Railways is magisterial. It's both authoritative and absorbing. A first class journey. (Michael Palin 2015-07-01)
Rich and revealing ... [Bradley's] special delight is in ferreting out the telling, often surprising detail that brings the great themes of his story alive ... a monumental work. (Daily Telegraph 2015-10-10)
Combining authority with intimacy, and technical grasp with humour and humanity, The Railways is by some distance the most ambitious and enriching book I have ever read on this subject. It is destined to become a classic of British social history. (David Kynaston)
'A superbly crafted, lovingly assembled tribute to our railways ... the current, tattered state of our railways should in no way detract from Bradley's narrative. This is a first-class, entertaining analysis of a great, albeit troubled, institution that has now been given a history worthy of its national significance.' (Robin McKie The Observer 2015-10-18)
Bradley has written an authoritative and comprehensive history that entertains and informs in equal measure. This is a celebration of the railways that neither descends into nostalgia nor ventures into train-spotter land ... The reward for Bradley's ambition in writing a comprehensive social history of the railways is that his book will sit happily on the shelves next to railway classics such as Jack Simmons's The Railway in Town and Country, probably the nearest equivalent. This is definitely the book to give to that great uncle who you think is interested in trains. But it is also a fitting present for that railway buff who thinks he knows everything there is to know about the railways. This book will show he is mistaken. (Christian Wolmar Spectator 2015-09-19)
A magnificent study ... Simon Bradley is not an ideal, but the ideal railway historian ...
a rivetingly detailed technical history ... Masterly ... the joy of Bradley's book is that, by telling the story of railways, he has told the story of all of us British over the last 150 years. Turning the pages, we will cheer the ingenuity of the Victorians, curse the name of Beeching and Harold Macmillan, and recall the many moments of life - sobbing as one parted from a lover, delight as the train took us into new landscapes - in which the railways have played a central role. They made us what we are - both as a nation and as individuals, and this book is the classic, beautifully written, learned exposition of that glorious fact.
(AN Wilson Sunday Times 2015-09-27)
It is testament to Bradley's tremendous frame of reference that he is able to write with equal authority on both Branwell Brontë and Timothy Potter ...fascinating ... The entire book is written with a rare combination of easy-going style and Olympian knowledge ... Bradley is one of that happy band of writers who are interested in everything, and also - rarer still - capable of making everything interesting ... this book concertinas the present and the past, the real and the imagined, and, by doing so, turns what might have been Timothy Potter's trainspotter's guide into something much closer to a work of art. (Craig Brown Mail on Sunday 2015-09-13)
Yields a plethora of delightful anecdotes and arcane facts. Bradley has a fine eye for the telling details ... a rich history ... as a work on railways and social life in the last two centuries it is a treasure trove. (Jill Murdoch BBC Who Do You Think You Are magazine 2015-10-01)
A superb and challenging work of railway history, but it is also so much more ... It goes way beyond conventional, introverted, train-spottery literature and deals with some very unexpected themes ... Dr Bradley explodes many myths about the railways ... fascinating ... elegantly written, magisterial and utterly enthralling. (Gavin Stamp Country Life 2015-10-14)
Books of the Year 2015: Bradley's compendious yet rattling The Railways achieves magnificently a difficult double. Learned and deeply researched, it will not only impress railway buffs but tell even them a great deal they didn't know; yet this is also popular history, which will engage and entertain any lay reader remotely curious about train travel in Britain. (Matthew Parris Spectator 2015-11-19)
Simon Bradley entertainingly provides as much social history as industry detail to help today's curious passenger make sense of their past and present "parallel universe". Refreshingly, unlike some railway tomes, he doesn't take his love for the subject too seriously, even referring to a Viz comic character that took the mickey out of trainspotters ... an encyclopaedic book (Scotsman 2015-11-21)
Daily Mail Books of the Year 2015: Now is probably a better time to read about trains than to ride in them. A magnificent, all-encompassing history ... It's a book that's both jaunty and scholarly - a rare combination - and packed with fascinating details right up to the present day. (Craig Brown Daily Mail 2015-11-27)
Bradley's previous book was elegant enough, but here he blossoms as a writer both elegant and droll ... boldly conceived, protean and frequently beautiful. (Andrew Martin Times Literary Supplement 2015-11-13)
- عن المؤلف
- Simon Bradley was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1965. Several moves from north to south and back again as he was growing up nurtured a fascination with the differences between places. After study at Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art, he has taken these interests further as joint editor of the celebrated Pevsner Architectural Guides at Yale University Press London. Having joined the series as a researcher in 1994, he has since contributed the revised 'Buildings of England' volumes on Cambridgeshire, Westminster, and the City of London. He is also co-author of the revised Berkshire volume, and is currently working on a new edition covering Oxford and South Oxfordshire.
Simon's interest in railways began with trainspotting aged eleven, and soon broadened to include railway architecture. His 'St Pancras Station' (Profile, 2011), described by the Sunday Times as ‘a masterpiece of historical context’, brings together railways, architecture and social history in a portrait of this magnificent landmark. A major new book, 'The Railways: Nation, Network and People', explores the history and character of Britain’s railways in greater breadth, from the passenger’s changing experience to the cult of the preserved railway, via the tracks, buildings and operation of the system itself. Chosen as a Radio 4 Book of the Week and as the Sunday Times's History Book of the Year for 2015, it was also shortlisted for the Longman History Today prize.
His latest book is 'Churches: An Architectural Guide', published in March 2016 in Yale's new Pevsner Introductions series. It draws on many years' experience of visiting parish churches across England, not least (but not only) for the Pevsner/Buildings of England series.
Simon has also written for the TLS, the London Review of Books, the Spectator, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Independent, the Evening Standard, and for academic journals including Architectural History.
Simon Bradley is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research. In 2013 he was appointed a Research Associate at St John's College, Oxford. He is married, and lives in London.
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