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Derby Through Time (Paperback, UK ed.)
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Derby Through Time (Paperback, UK ed.)
Series: Through Time
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List price R494
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Discovery Miles 4 470
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Derby is an exceptional and underrated city. It was an important
centre of the Midlands Enlightenment, boasting Dr Erasmus Darwin
and John Whitehurst FRS among its eighteenth-century residents. It
produced an artist of international repute in Joseph Wright ARA and
has been a centre for the production of fine porcelain and fine
clocks for almost three centuries. It was a county town for five
centuries and was in its Georgian heyday much admired by writers
such as Daniel Defoe. Despite the best endeavours of a peculiarly
unappreciative and iconoclastic bunch of city fathers over the
years, many of its fine Georgian and Regency features have managed
to survive. In 90 pairs of photographs ranging from 1765 to the
present, Maxwell Craven has attempted to show why it is still a
city of which its citizens can be proud and how it has changed, in
places out of all recognition.
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