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O.G.S. Crawford (1886-1957) thought history held the answers to everything. A field archaeologist, he later became a photographer flying over the Western Front during WW1 - an experience that made him a pioneer of aerial archaeology. An impassioned Marxist, it seemed to him that contemporary 1930s Britain would soon disappear, conquered by history's inevitable march to world socialism, and he made a photographic study of everyday things - churches and advertising hoardings - as future evidence of how unenlightened British society had once been. Later there came angry disillusionment and a book, too bitter to be published, called Bloody Old Britain. In recounting Crawford's extraordinary story, Kitty Hauser uses many of his photographs and penetrates neglected but fascinating aspects of British life and belief that have themselves become history.Product Identifiers
PublisherGranta Books
ISBN-139781847080776
eBay Product ID (ePID)87842180
Product Key Features
Book TitleBloody Old Britain: O.G.S. Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life
AuthorKitty Hauser
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Dimensions
Item Height199mm
Item Width130mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorKitty Hauser
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom