Bath and West. A bicentenary history
Details:
- Author(s) Hudson, Kenneth
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1976
- Pages 251pp; illus
- Publisher Moonraker Press
- Place Published Bradford on Avon
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Commissioned history. Has sections: 'Getting the Society launched'; '1787-1805. The next two secretaries'; 'Experiment and uncertainty'; 'Into the doldrums'; 'The Acland revival'; 'Appealing to a wider public'; 'Age of showmanship'; 'Foreign competition and war as incentives to efficiency'; 'Depression and dullness between the wars'; 'A permanent home'. Appendices include: 'Membership, income and expenditure at 10 year intervals, 1859 onwards'; List of secretaries and presidents'; 'Aims, rules and orders of the Society, 1777'