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Building Britannia - A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings (Hardcover)
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Building Britannia - A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings (Hardcover)
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An ambitious history of Britain told through the stories of
twenty-five notable structures, from the Iron Age fortification of
Maiden Castle in Dorset to the Gherkin. Building Britannia is a
chronicle of social, political and economic change seen through the
prism of the country's built environment, but also a sequence of
closely observed studies of a series of intrinsically remarkable
structures: some of them beautiful or otherwise imposing; some of
them more coldly functional; all of them with richly fascinating
stories to tell. Steven Parissien tells both a national story,
tracing how a growing sense of British nationhood was expressed
through the country's architecture, and also examines how these
structures were used by later generations to signpost, mythologise
or remake British history. Rubbing shoulders with some 'expected'
building choices – the Roman baths at Aquae Sulis, the early
Gothic splendour of Lincoln Cathedral and the Tudor jewel that is
Little Moreton Hall – are some striking inclusions that promise
to open doors into what will be, for many readers, less familiar
areas of social history: these include The Briton’s Protection, a
Regency pub close in Manchester city centre and the Edwardian
Baroque Electric Cinema in Notting Hill, one of the country's
oldest working cinemas. Thus as well as identifying the relevance
of certain iconic structures to the unfolding of the national
story, Building Britannia finds fascination and meaning in the
everyday and the disregarded.
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