Bøger af Nicholas Russell

Berthold Lubetkin and Erno Goldfinger were two leading architects who designed high-rise council housing after the Second World War; a type of building that now holds a poor reputation.

Household Names is all about the iconic Russell Hobbs automatic kettles of the 1950s and 60s and the people who invented, designed and made them, set in the wider context of the British economy and culture in the second half of the twentieth century.

The concept of this book arose out of an international workshop, which we organized and held at the University of Wales Conference Centre at Gregynog.

Robert Bakewell is usually regarded as one of the legendary pioneers of the agricultural revolution in late eighteenth-century Britain. However, this book examines the ideas and techniques of earlier generations of agricultural and sporting improvers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, demonstrating earlier sources of many of Bakewell's opinions and procedures.