Central Bristol History Tour - Softcover

Beeson, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1445682435 ISBN 13: 9781445682433

Publisher: Amberley Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Central Bristol History Tour is a unique insight into the fascinating history of this famous old port city and shows just how much it has changed during the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Readers are invited to follow local author and historian Anthony Beeson as he guides them through its streets and alleyways, pointing out the well-known and less well-known landmarks along the way.

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About the Author

Anthony Beeson was born in 1948 into a well-established Brighton family. Having worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art Library, he moved to Bristol in 1972 to become Fine Art Librarian, and over the following thirty-seven years developed the Bristol Art Library into one of the finest British public collections of art books. He is an established author and lecturer having had ten volumes published on the history of Bristol, Brighton and Dorset as well as many articles on antiquities and art in academic journals. He is an acknowledged Classical iconographer and an expert on Roman and Greek art and architecture. He is the Hon Archivist of the Association for Roman Archaeology and a member of the Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics and has appeared on the television programme Time Team. In 2000 he reassembled the many hundreds of pieces of the lost Newton St Loe Orpheus mosaic in the entrance hall of Bristol museum and in 2017 interpreted and produced the official report on the exceptional and internationally famous Roman mosaic of Pegasus and Bellerophon found at Boxford in Berkshire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1445682435
• ISBN 13: 9781445682433
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96