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"State ownership makes conservation political and Thurley knows his cannot help but be a political book" Rosemary Hill, Sunday Telegraph.
-- (06/23/2013)"In this absorbing book, the chief executive of English Heritage explores how, between 1900 and 1950, the British state amassed more than 800 buildings, monuments and historic sites and gave the public access to them. Thurley is a well-placed guide to the characters who enabled this collecting spree and to the challenges that they faced; he tells a vivid story of how the country successfully established a vast open-air museum" - Apollo Magazine, 1st July 2013
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"Everyone involved with looking after historic buildings today. . .should read Simon Thurley's. . .well-researched and readable book [...]. Dr Thurley, as the chief executive of English Heritage since 2003 - and a former Director of the Museum of London and Curator of Historic Royal Palaces - is in an exceptional position to tell this tale, which he does at a cracking pace."--Jeremy Musson, Historic House-- (11/01/2013)
". . .[This] is a timely book documenting the long and passionate struggle for preserving historic buildings and sites."--R. C. Richardson, THES-- (03/06/2014)
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