Provincial Towns, part 2: Middle and Southern England (6-vol. EP set)

This is the final part of a new Eureka Press series which reprints in facsimile the local town handbooks published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on the occasion of the annual conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. It covers the middle and southern parts of England and includes town handbooks of Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham, Canterbury, Dover, Portsmouth, Bath, and Bristol. Edited by local historians and scientists, the handbooks provided objective data on each city or town, together with many fold-out maps and ideal contemporary source materials for those researching Victorian and Edwardian England in such fields as topography, social and economic history, and background data of 19th century English literature.