A Walk in the Park - The Life and Times of a People's Institution

A fascinating, informative, revelatory book' William Boyd, GuardianParks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public parks are an invention. From their medieval inception as private hunting grounds through to their modern incarnation as public spaces of rest and relaxation, parks have been fought over by land-grabbing monarchs, reforming Victorian industrialists, hippies, punks, and somewhere along the way, the common folk trying to savour their single day of rest.In A Walk in the Park, Travis Elborough excavates the history of parks in all their colour and complexity. Loving, funny and impassioned, this is a timely celebration of a small wonder that - in an age of swingeing cuts - we should not take for granted.

Product details

• Authors: Travis Elborough, Elborough Travis
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780099593829
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959382-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Sociology: sport & leisure, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Local History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Sociology: sport and leisure, Social and cultural history