The Regions of Britain (book series)

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The Regions of Britain is a book series of topographical guides to the British regions published by Robert Hale and Company,[https://books.google.com/books?id=e-nNU3d368sC&pg=PA56 "Rural Mappings"] by Catherine Brace in {{cite book|editor=Paul J. Cloke |title=Country Visions|year=2003|publisher=Pearson Education|location=Harlow|isbn=978-0-13-089601-8|page=56}} by Eyre & Spottiswoode and by Eyre Methuen in the 1970s. The series included a blend of historical and contemporary material"What country, friend, is this?" Cella Henderson, The Guardian, 6 July 1974, p. 6. and it was the practice of the publishers to use authors native to the regions they wrote about such as S. H. Burton of DevonJenner, Michael. (1996) Traveller's Companion to the West Country. Godfrey Cave Associates. p. 11. {{ISBN|1854718266}} who wrote about the West Country, Marcus Crouch on the Home Counties was from Middlesex, and Arthur Raistrick who wrote about the Pennines was from Yorkshire.Muir, Richard. (1997) The Yorkshire Countryside: A Landscape History. Keele University Press. p. 20. {{ISBN|1853311987}} John Talbot White, a noted naturalist of Goldsmiths College,"Country writer's suicide followed redundancy", The Guardian, 27 April 1983, p. 2. wrote two volumes for the series including on Kent, Surrey and Sussex, an area of Britain about which he wrote three other books after having become fascinated by it after he was evacuated from London to the Kent/Sussex border as a boy during the Second World War."Obituary: Country writer", The Guardian, 27 April 1983, p. 2.

This is an incomplete list of volumes:

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The Lake District1970 (revised ed. 1974)Roy Millward and Adrian Robinson
The Upper Thames1970J. R. L. Anderson"'I will go with thee... Guide books reviewed", Adrienne Keith Cohen, The Guardian, 24 May 1975, p. 18.
The West Country1972S. H. Burton
Islands of Western Scotland: Inner and Outer Hebrides1973W. H. Murray
The North Country1973G. Bernard Wood
The Scottish Border and Northumberland: Berwickshire, Roxburghshire, Northumberland1973John Talbot White
The Highlands and Islands1974Francis Thompson
The Home Counties1975Marcus Crouch
The Peak District1975Roy Millward and Adrian Robinson
The Cotswolds1977Josceline Finberg
The South East Down and Weald: Kent, Surrey and Sussex1977John Talbot White
The Pennine Dales1978Arthur Raistrick
The Welsh Borders1978Roy Millward and Adrian Robinson
East Anglia1979Peter Steggall

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