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Robert Macfarlane
is a travel writer and literary critic. His first book, Mountains of the Mind, won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His second, The Wild Places, also won a number of prizes and has recently been adapted into a one-hour film by the BBC. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Andrew Marr
is a writer and broadcaster. He is the of host of The Andrew Marr Show on BBC 1 and also presents BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week every Monday morning. He has also presented Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain and Andrew Marr’s the Making of Modern Britain.
Peter Marren
writes about wildlife, the countryside and history. His books include The New Naturalists and Twitching Through the Swamp. He has also worked with Richard Mabey on Bugs Britannica, which will be published in May 2010.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
is a prize-winning historian: his books include Catherine the Great & Potemkin, Young Stalin and Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Brian Moore
is a former rugby union player. He played in three rugby World Cups and was a member of the England side which won three Grand Slams. In 1991, he was voted Rugby World Player of the Year. He currently writes on rugby for the Daily Telegraph and is well known as a sports pundit for the BBC.
Dr Richard Muir
is the author of many books and articles on the history of the countryside, and has written a number of articles about landscape. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in Geography and Environment at Aberdeen University.
Daljit Nagra
is a poet. He currently lives and works in London as a secondary school English teacher. His first collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! won the 2007 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and The South Bank Show Decibel Award in 2008.
John Julius Norwich
is a writer and historian and the author of The Architecture of Southern England. He has been General Editor of Great Architecture of the World, The New Shell Guides to Great Britain and The Oxford Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Art. He has also written and presented several historical documentary films and is former chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund and of the World Monuments Fund.
Sean O’Brien
is a poet, critic, playwright and Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. He received the Northern Rock Foundation Writer’s Award in 2007. Much of his work has won awards, but most recently The Drowned Book was awarded both the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes. His first novel, Afterlife, was published in 2009.
Michael Palin, CBE
starred in the Monty Python sketches and films, as well as other TV series and films, including A Fish Called Wanda, which won him a BAFTA. He has also presented seven BBC travel documentary series. He is currently president of the Royal Geographical Society.
Jonathon Porritt, CBE
is an environmentalist and Founder Director of the sustainable development charity, Forum for the Future, Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission and author of Capitalism: As If The World Matters.
Gavin Pretor-Pinney
is founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society and co-founder of The Idler magazine. He wrote the international bestseller, The Cloudspotter’s Guide. His next book is called The Wavewatcher’s Companion.
Libby Purves, OBE
is a radio presenter, journalist and author. She currently presents Midweek on BBC Radio 4 and the education programme The Learning Curve. She also writes a column for The Times and is a regular contributor to the Oldie magazine.
Tony Robinson
presents the Channel 4 series Time Team. As an actor he has appeared in several series, including Blackadder. He has written numerous books and won many awards from the RTS and BAFTA for his TV writing. He is president of the Young Archaeology Club.
Alexei Sayle
is a writer and performer, he has written several bestselling short story collections and novels including Barcelona Plates and Mister Roberts. In 2008 he presented Alexei Sayle’s Liverpool for the BBC. He also co-wrote and starred in Alexei Sayle’s Stuff, The All-New Alexei Sayle Show and Merrygoround as well as appearing in many films and radio programmes.
John Sergeant
is a broadcaster, journalist and writer, who has been chief political correspondent at the BBC and political editor of ITN. He has written two bestsellers, one of which is his memoir, Give Me Ten Seconds.
Sir Antony Sher
is an acclaimed stage and film actor and also a writer, theatre director and painter.
Lucy Siegle
is a journalist, author and presenter who specializes in ecological and ethical lifestyle matters. She contributes to the Guardian and the Observer, and magazines such as Marie Claire. She is the author of Green Living in the Urban Jungle.
Mary Smith
now lives in Bedfordshire, she was born and spent most of her childhood in South Devon. She was formerly Head of the French Department in a local Middle School but has now retired and can spend more time on her first love, writing. Her contribution to this book was the winner of the Daily Telegraph’s ‘Icons of England’ competition.
Jon Snow
has been with ITN since 1976 and has anchored Channel 4 News since 1989. He has won a BAFTA and been RTS Journalist of the Year twice, and he has been a trustee of the Tate and National Gallery.
Kevin Spacey
is an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor and director. His role in The Usual Suspects won him his first Oscar in 1996 and in 2000 he won Best Actor for American Beauty. Since 2003 he has been Artistic Director of London’s Old Vic theatre.
Rick Stein, OBE
owns four restaurants in Padstow, Cornwall and is the author of eleven cookery books, including English Seafood Cookery. He has presented a number of cookery series for the BBC, including Rick Stein’s Taste of the Sea and French Odyssey.
Sir Roy Strong
is a writer, art historian, lecturer, critic, columnist and regular contributor to both radio and television. He has been Director of both the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. With his late wife he designed one of England’s largest post-war formal gardens, The Laskett.
Alice Temperley
launched Temperley London in 2000. It has quickly grown to become one of the most desirable fashion brands in the world. She has won awards from Glamour and Elle, the Walpole Award for British Design Excellence, and has been named one of Britain’s top thirty businesswomen.
Sir Nigel Thompson, KCMG, CBE
was chairman of CPRE from 2003 to 2008. He trained as a civil and structural engineer and spent his career at Ove Arup Partners, working with architects designing buildings.
Dr Simon Thurley
is a leading architectural historian and Chief Executive of English Heritage. He has been Director of the Museum of London, and Curator of Historic Royal Palaces. He has written several books and is a regular broadcaster, presenting programmes such as Houses of Power.
Alan Titchmarsh
is a gardener, author and broadcaster. He has written over forty books and novels, and now has his own daytime ITV show, featuring conversation, music and the arts. He also presents a BBC Radio 2 music programme on Sunday evenings.
Sir Mark Tully
was born in Calcutta and now splits his time between England and India. He was Chief of the Bureau for BBC New Delhi for twenty-two years and has written books such as No Full Stops in India, The Heart of India and India’s Unending Journey.
Charlie Waite
is a landscape photographer who has published around thirty books and held exhibitions across Europe, the USA, Japan and Australia. His company, Light & Land, runs tours, courses and workshops worldwide. His website is www.charliewaite.com.
Chris Watson
is a sound recordist who specializes in wildlife sounds from around the world. He has released solo CDs and worked across film
, television and radio. He won a BAFTA award for Best Factual Recording on the BBC’s Life of Birds.
Francis Wheen
is a journalist, writer and broadcaster. He is the author of several books, including a biography of Karl Marx, which won the Isaac Deutscher prize. He is the Deputy Editor of Private Eye.
Michael Wood
is a historian, writer and broadcaster. He is the author of several highly praised books on English history, including In Search of the Dark Ages, Domesday Quest and In Search of Shakespeare. He has over eighty documentary films to his name, among them In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great and The Story of India. He is currently working on an English history series for the BBC.
Benjamin Zephaniah
is a writer, poet and musician. He writes poetry that is musical and political, gaining much of his reputation through performance. He has published novels for teenagers, as well as plays, and released numerous records.
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
BAL= Bridgeman Art Library;
MEPL = Mary Evans Picture Library
15: Palace Pier, Brighton, photo by Tony Ray Jones, c. 1966: National Media Museum/SSPL; 18: ‘View from Avebury steeple of Silbury Hill’, engraving from Stonehenge: a Temple Restored to the British Druids by William Stukeley, 1740: Private Collection/BAL; 31: assortment of standard letter boxes, c.1935: British Postal Museum and Archive/ © Royal Mail Group Ltd/BAL; 35: Ancient Trees, Lullingstone Park, pencil drawing by Samuel Palmer, 1828: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon/BAL; 39: Killin station, Perthshire, 1950s: Milepost 92 1/2 – railphotolibrary.com; 42: Southend, poster by Harold L. Oakley, 1941: © TfL from the London Transport Museum collection; 45: ‘The Haunt of the Gulls’, engraved illustration from Leisure Hour, 1888: Private Collection/BAL; 48: A Hare Running, With Ears Pricked, pen & ink drawing by James Seymour (1702-52): Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection/BAL; 54: A Lych Gate, pencil drawing by John Sell Cotman, early 19th century: © Trustees of the British Museum; 57: Military Orchid, book-plate, 1869: MEPL; 65: ‘England, with all thy faults, I love thee still (Cowper)’, cartoon by Carl Giles: © Express Syndication; 69: Castle Combe, Wiltshire: Charles Hewitt/Getty Images; 76: ‘Scarborough Braces You Up – The Air Does It’, NER poster, 1900-1922: NRM – Pictorial Collection; 84: plan of a garden, including an orchard, from The New Orchard Garden by William Lawson, 1618; 88: Hart’s Tongue Ferns, wood engraving by Reynolds Stone, 1971: © Estate of Reynolds Stone; 92: Trilobite from Golden Grove, 6th November 1841, watercolour by John Phillips: © Oxford University Museum of Natural History/BAL; 96: Hadrian’s Wall: © Derry Brabbs; 100: ‘Rutlandshire with Oukham and Stanford’, from Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain by John Speed, 1611-12: Private Collection/BAL; 103: Skiddaw: © Derry Brabbs; 109: a tug-of-war at the Tintern fete, South Wales: © David Hurn/Magnum Photos; 112: A Windy Day on the Beacon, 1855: MEPL; 115: leaflet for Motor Coach Tours circa 1950: Amoret Tanner/Alamy; 119: limestone plateau, Malham Cove, Yorkshire, 1969: Edwin Smith/RIBA Library Photographs Collection; 123: view of Eton College over the Thames: 2d Alan King/Alamy; 126: The Broads, poster by Anton Abraham von Anrooy, 1928: © Swim Ink 2, LLC/Corbis; 130: artist’s reconstruction of the Euston Arch: Joe Robson/AVR London; 136: Common Thick-Knee: 19th era 2/Alamy; 145: inn sign from The English Inn Past and Present by A. E. Richardson and H. Donaldson Eberlein, 1925; 149: Penshaw Monument, Sunderland: © Aidan O’Rourke; 151: racehorses on the Ridgeway near Lambourn, c.1955: John Gay/English Heritage NMR/MEPL; 154: Little Red Riding Hood puzzle page: Private Collection/© Look and Learn/BAL; 162: Sheepfold MI87, Tilberthwaite Glen, Cumbria rebuilt by Andy Goldsworthy: NVM Digital; 168: ‘The Sheep of his Pasture’ by Edward Calvert, c.1828, from an edition of 350 prints published for the album ‘A Memoir’ by Calvert’s son: Private Collection/BAL; 181: Westonbirt House, Gloucestershire, 1879: MEPL; 192: breakwaters, East Anglia: courtesy Margaret Howell; 195: cliffs at Ilfracombe, Devon: 2d Alan King/Alamy; 198: ‘A section through the roadway of Holborn Viaduct, London: looking east, showing the middle level sewer’, wood-engraving after W. Haywood, 1854: Wellcome Library, London; 205: Hunsdon House, anonymous 16th-century lithograph: Private Collection/BAL; 208: view of Hampstead Heath, 1840: Alan King engraving/Alamy; 212: Green Man, woodcut, c. 1630: MEPL; 219: ‘Wistman’s Wood’ drawn by Alfred Dawson from a sketch by J. L. W. Page, from An Exploration of Dartmoor … by John Lloyd Warden Page, 1889; 222: ‘The High Style’ from Perils of Crinolines, 1859: MEPL; 234: ‘The East Front of Kelmscott Manor’, frontispiece of News from Nowhere by William Morris, woodcut by Charles March Gere, 1892: Private Collection/BAL; 238: The Old Yarmouth Road at Blofeld by John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), chalk drawing: © Trustees of the British Museum; 242: newly-ploughed field, Holkham, 1970: Edwin Smith/RIBA Library Photographs Collection; 246: white horse, Uffington, Berkshire, 1949: Fred Ramage/Keystone Features/Getty Images; 254: five-a-side football coaching, 1980, photograph by Henry Grant: Museum of London; 258: woodcut illustration by Gwen Raverat to Mountains and Molehills by Frances Cornford, 1934: © Estate of Gwen Raverat. All rights reserved, DACS 2010; 264: front cover of ‘John Bull’, June 1950: Private Collection/© The Advertising Archives/BAL; 268: Spurn point, Yorkshire: David Baker/Alamy; 271: Middleton Dale, Derbyshire, 19th-century engraving: 19th era/Alamy; 275: single tree in a field by John Cooper:Private Collection/© Special Photographers Archive/BAL; 281: ‘Cornwall’, GWR poster, 1923-1947: NRM - Pictorial Collection; 284: drawing of Mick Aston: © Ruth Murray; 290: Great Tew, Oxfordshire, 1938: MEPL; 296: Totnes Castle, Devon: © Andrew Payne/Alamy; 302: Balcombe Viaduct, illustration by Curtis Tappeneden to An Eccentric Tour of Sussex by Peter Bridgewater, 2007, Snake River Press; 305: Canal Inn by George Mackley, 1969, wood engraving: © Bolton Museum and Art Gallery/BAL; 309: Serpentine Swimming Club: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Europe; 315: girl sitting in an orchard, photo by John Gay: © English Heritage/NMR; 318: Brighton beach, Sussex, photo by Edwin Smith, 1950s: Edwin Smith/RIBA Library Photographs Collection; 321: Salisbury Cathedral from the North West, pencil drawing by John Constable, 1829: Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge/BAL; 324: Red Rose Campion from Gerard’s Herbal, 1597; 328: Bodmin Moor, Cornwall: © The Marsden Archive; 331: Lancaster bomber, Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, East Kirby: photo Charlie Waite; 337: ‘The Cricket Match’, illustration by Robert W. Buss to The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, first published 1836; 340: Alfred the Great, engraving after William Small (1843-1931) : Private Collection/BAL; 344: detail of a map of the west country by William Hole from Poluolbion by William Drayton, 1616.
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