Behind the Privet Hedge – Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain : Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
178914860X
ISBN-13
9781789148602
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Imprint
Reaktion Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 1st, 2024
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
538 grams
Dimensions
14.70 x 22.30 x 3.20 cms
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Unearths the British national obsession with the suburban garden.
Britain is a nation of gardeners; the suburban garden, with its roses and privet hedges, is widely admired and copied across the world. But it is little understood how millions across the nation developed an obsession with their colourful plots of land. Behind the Privet Hedge explores the history of this development and how, despite their stereotype as symbols of dull, middle-class conformity, these new open spaces were seen as a means to bring about social change in the early twentieth century. Michael Gilson restores to the story a remarkable but long-forgotten figure, Richard Sudell, who spent a lifetime ‘evangelizing’ that the garden be in the vanguard of progress towards a new egalitarian society with everyday beauty at its centre.
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