As They Really Were - Hardcover

Keith Middlemas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711232903 ISBN 13: 9780711232907

Verlag: Frances Lincoln, 2012

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Cr�ticas:

'a magnificent achievement which deserves to take its place amongst the very best studies of communities. Keith middlemas demonstrates a command of an array of historical knowledge and skills but, above all, he demonstrates the central importance of sympathy, imagination and literary ability in the endeavour to recreate the past.'

(Northern History)

Provides a fascinating historical insight of interest and relevance well outside the borders of Alnwick

(Good Book Guide)

An enthralling, informal insight into a world on the brink of change.

(History Today)

The very skilful, delicate, slightly caricatured profiles show everyone, from the Duke of Northumberland to beggars, in a manner derived from Kay, Dighton, Bewick and Morland.

(Country Life)

These pencil portraits, although thought to have been created for his own pleasure and family amusement, are well drawn and skilful, the character of each face sharply delineated without sentimentality.

(Northumbrian)

Rese�a del editor:

In 1831 a talented and successful Alnwick artist recorded in his notebook something over a hundred portrait sketches of his fellow citizens. Percy Foster (born in 1801) went on to modest fame as a painter and exhibitor at the Royal Academy, the Scottish Academy and elsewhere, but this record of Alnwick townsfolk, made in the year of the first ever census, is a unique document in British history. There is no other comparable group of images of such a representative cross-section of local society, which ranged in this case from the Duke in his castle, but here presented without the slightest deference, to lawyers, shopkeepers, small businessmen, labourers, servants and mothers with children.

The miraculous survival of this record, with each character and occupation identified and recorded in terms of clothing, attitude and attributes, has allowed Keith Middlemas to launch an investigation into the social, cultural, economic and political structures of one of the major market towns of Northern England at a time when the impact of the industrial revolution and political reform were about to change everything fundamentally. By using other historical records to illuminate the picture he is able to portray in vivid reality many aspects of the life, activities and relationships of people long thought to be lost to history. The result is a unique and tantalising glimpse of historical reality, and a moving portrait of a community on the brink of transformation.

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