Bath and West. A bicentenary history

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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'