BRITAIN IN PICTURES - CHECKLIST
Series Note: The aim of the Britain in Pictures book series was "to tell a social history of Britain, spurred no doubt by the war and a desire to instill pride in the population for the great accomplishments" of the country. It was thus designed as a moral booster and remind and educate citizens about Britain's national identity that could then be seen as under threat.
"Collins published this series to acknowledge and celebrate the nation's unique contribution to the arts, science, industry and culture, exploring topics from chess and golf to printed books, photographers, caricaturists and cartographers. Britain's quaint eccentricities are also captured in British Hills and Mountains, Windmills and Watermills, Waterways and Canals, Ship Builders and Fishermen, each composed by the noted authorities and talents of the day; each beautifully illustrated."
Each octavo-sized book in this series was beautifully and affordably produced with "one-colour printed paper boards with matching dust jackets, and the exquisite colour and black-and-white images". In addition to this attractive physical format the content was written by such great literary, political and artistic greats of the time as Cecil Beaton, John Betjeman, Edmund Blunden, Neville Cardus, R. J. Cruikshank, Graham Greene, Jacquetta Hawkes, George Orwell, David Low, Rose Macaulay, Francis Meynell, John Piper, Vita Sackville-West and Edith Sitwell.
Source of the quotations above: Neville Beale, "Buying into Britain in Pictures", The Guardian, 16 October 2009.
Further reading:
- Collecting the Britain in Pictures series at abebooks.com, 17 March 2022
- Michael Carney, Britain in Pictures: A History and Bibliography, London: Werner Shaw, 1995
Abbreviations used in the checklist below:
-- BIP: Britain in Pictures series
-- BC: British Commonwealth in Pictures series
-- EP: English Poets in Pictures series
Serial Number / Title / Author(s) / Year of Publication
1. THE ENGLISH POETS : Lord David Cecil (1941)
2. ENGLISH SPORT : Eric Parker (1941)
3. ENGLISH MUSIC: W J Turner (1941)
4. THE GOVERNMENT OF BRITAIN : G M Young (1941)
5. AUSTRALIA (BC) : Arnold Haskell (1941)
6. EAST AFRICA (BC) : Elspeth Huxley (1941)
7. SHELLEY (EP) : Ed - Dorothy Wellesley (1941)
8. BYRON (EP) : Ed - D Wellesley (1941)
9. CANADA (BC) : Lady Tweesmuir (1941)
10. INDIA (BC) : Sir Firozkhan Noon (1941)
11. ENGLISH VILLAGES : Edmund Blunden (1941)
12. BRITISH MEDICINE : R McNair Wilson (1941)
13. BRITISH STATESMEN : Sir Ernest Barker (1941)
14. BRITISH SCIENTISTS : Sir Richard Gregory (1941)
15. ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSES : Vita Sackville-West (1941)
16. ENGLISH FARMING : John Russell (1941)
17. ENGLISH EDUCATION : Kenneth Lindsay (1941)
18. SOUTH AFRICA (BC) : Sarah G Millin (1941)
19. TENNYSON (EP) : Ed - D Wellesley (1942)
20. KEATS (EP) : Ed - D Wellesley (1942)
21. THE STORY OF SCOTLAND : F Fraser Darling (1942)
22. BRITISH MOUNTAINEERS : F S Smythe (1942)
23. ENGLISH NOVELISTS : Elizabeth Bowen (1942)
24. ENGLISH SOCIAL SERVICES : Sir George Newman (1941)
25. BRITISH CARTOONISTS, CARICATURISTS AND COMIC ARTISTS : David Low (1942)
26. NEW ZEALAND (BC) : Ngaio Marsh & R M Burdon (1942)
27. BRITISH MERCHANT ADVENTURERS : Maurice Collis (1942)
28. THE ENGLISH CHURCH : Bishop of Chichester (1942)
29. ENGLISH WOMEN : Edith Sitwell (1942)
30. ENGLISH CHILDREN : Sylvia Lynd (1942)
31. LIFE AMONG THE ENGLISH : Rose Macaulay (1942)
32. BRITISH DRAMATISTS : Graham Greene (1942)
33. BRITISH REBELS AND REFORMERS : Harry Roberts (1942)
34. BRITISH ROMANTIC ARTISTS : John Piper (1942)
35. BRITISH PORTS AND HARBOURS : Leo Walmsley (1942)
36. THE BIRDS OF BRITAIN : James Fisher (1942)
37. BRITISH ORIENTALISTS : A J Arberry (1943)
38. BRITISH CRAFTSMEN : Thomas Hennell (1943)
39. THE STORY OF IRELAND : Sean O'Faolain (1943)
40. THE BRITISH COLONIAL EMPIRE (BC) : Noel Sabine (1943)
41. BRITAIN AND THE MIDDLE EAST (BC) : Sir Ronald Storrs (not published)
42. CHILDREN'S VERSE (EP) : Ed - Dorothy Wellesley (Not published)
43. COLERIDGE (EP) : Ed - D Wellesley (1942)
44. WORDSWORTH (EP) : Ed D Wellesley (1942)
45. BRITISH TRADE UNIONS : Sir Walter Citrine (1942)
46. FAIRS, CIRCUSES AND MUSIC HALLS : M Willson Disher (1942)
47. BRITISH ENGINEERS : Metius Chappell (1942)
48. ENGLISH CITIES AND SMALL TOWNS : John Betjeman (1943)
49. BRITISH HISTORIANS : E L Woodward (1943)
50. BRITISH SOLDIERS : S H F Johnston (1944)
51. THE ENGLISH AT TABLE : John Hampson (1944)
52. WILD LIFE OF BRITAIN : F Fraser Darling (1943)
53. BRITISH POLAR EXPLORERS : Admiral Sir Edward Evans (1943)
54. ENGLISH CONVERSATION : Lord David Cecil / Lettice Fowler (Not published)
55. BRITISH DIARIES AND JOURNALS : Kate O'Brien (1943)
56. BRITISH BIOGRAPHIES : Rebecca West (Not published)
57. HORSES OF BRITAIN (Lady Wentworth) (1944)
58. BRITISH SEAMEN (David Matthew) (1943)
59. ENGLISH GARDENS (Harry Roberts) (1944)
60. ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS (Kenneth Matthews) (1943)
61. WOMEN'S INSTITUTES (Cicely Mc Call) (1943)
62. THE STORY OF WALES (Rhys Davies) (1943)
63. BRITISH CLUBS (Bernard Darwin) (1943)
64. THE LONDONER (Dorothy Nicholson) (1944)
65. WILD FLOWERS IN BRITAIN (Geoffrey Grigson) (1944)
66. THE ENGLISH BIBLE (Sir Herbert Grierson) (1943)
67. ENGLISH INNS (Thomas Burke) (1943)
68. BRITAIN IN THE AIR (Nigel Tangye) (1944)
69. BRITISH SEA FISHERMEN (Peter F Hanson) (1944)
70. BRITISH MARINE LIFE (C M Yonge) (1944)
71. BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHERS (Cecil Beaton) (1944)
72. BRITISH POSTAGE STAMPS (S C Johnson) (1944)
73. BRITISH MAPS AND MAP-MAKERS (Edward Lynam) (1944)
74. THE BRITISH RED CROSS (Dermot Morrah) (1944)
75. BOY SCOUTS (E E Reynolds) (1944)
76. BRITISH PORTRAIT PAINTERS (John Russell) (1944)
77. ENGLISH POTTERY AND CHINA (Cecilia Semphill
(later editions 'English Pottery and Porcelain') (1944)
78. BATTLEFIELDS IN BRITAIN (C V Wedgwood) (1944)
79. BRITISH BOTANISTS (John Gilmour) (1944)
80. THE ENGLISH BALLET (W J Turner) (1944)
81. ENGLISH LETTER WRITERS (C E Vulliamy) (1945)
82. THE GUILDS OF THE CITY OF LONDON (Sir Ernest Pooley) (1945)
83. BRITISH RAILWAYS (Arthur Elton) (1945)
84. ENGLISH RIVERS AND CANALS (Frank Eyre & Charles Hadfield) (1945)
85. ISLANDS ROUND BRITAIN (R M Lockley) (1945)
86. BRITISH JOURNALISTS AND NEWSPAPERS (Derek Hudson) (1945)
87. SPORTING PICTURES OF ENGLAND (Guy Paget) (1945)
88. ENGLISH WATER COLOUR PAINTERS (H J Paris) (1945)
89. BRITISH FURNITURE MAKERS (John Gloag) (1945)
90. ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Rex Warner) (1945)
91. TREES IN BRITAIN (Alexander L Howard) (1946)
92. EARLY BRITAIN (Jacquetta Hawkes) (1945)
93. ENGLISH CRICKET (Neville Cardus) (1945)
94. INSECT LIFE IN BRITAIN (Geoffrey Taylor) (1945)
95. ENGLISH PRINTED BOOKS (Francis Meynell) (1946)
96. BRITISH DOGS (A Croxton Smith) (1945)
97. BRITISH WEATHER (Stephen Bone) (1946)
98. ENGLISH HYMNS AND HYMN WRITERS (Adam Fox) (1947)
99. ENGLISH GLASS (W B Honey) (1946)
100. THE ENGLISH PEOPLE (George Orwell) (1947)
101. LIFE AMONG THE SCOTS (Janet Adam Smith) (1946)
102. ENGLISH POPULAR AND TRADITIONAL ART (Enid Marx & Margaret Lambert) (1946)
103. BRITISH GARDEN FLOWERS (George M Taylor) (1946)
104. BRITISH SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDERS (George Blake) (1946)
105. BRITISH DRAWINGS (Michael Ayrton) (1946)
106. ENGLISH ESSAYISTS (Bonamy Dobree) (1946)
107. BRITISH GOLF (Bernard Darwin) (1946)
108. BRITISH HERBS AND VEGETABLES (George M Taylor) (1947)
109. BRITISH ANGLERS' NATURAL HISTORY (E G Boulenger) (1946)
110. BRITISH UNIVERSITIES (S C Roberts) (1947)
111. BRITISH CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS (Kenneth Ullyett) (1947)
112. THE ENGLISH AT THE SEASIDE (Christopher Marsden) (1947)
113. ROMAN BRITAIN : Ian Richmond (1947)
114. BRITISH YACHTING : C St John Ellis (Not published)
115. THE PORT OF LONDON : John Herbert (1947)
116. BRITISH HILLS AND MOUNTAINS : Peter Bicknell (1947)
117. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS : Martin Lindsay (1947)
118. BRITISH HUMOUR : D B Wyndham Lewis (Not published)
119. THE BRITISH THEATRE : Bernard Miles (1948)
120. BRITISH WINDMILLS AND WATERMILLS : C P Skilton (1947)
121. ENGLISH FASHION : Alison Settle (1948)
122. THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY : Nigel Birch (1949)
123. THE LIBERAL PARTY : R J Cruikshank (1948)
124. THE LABOUR PARTY : William Glenvil Hall (1949)
125. BRITISH BUTTERFLIES : Vere Temple (1949)
126. CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED BOOKS : Janet Adam Smith (1948)
127. BRITISH CHESS : Kenneth Matthews (1948)
128. ENGLISH COTTAGES AND FARM-HOUSES : C Henry Warren (1948)
129. THE TURF : John Hislop (1948)
130. BRITISH BOXING : Denzil Batchelor (1948)
131. BRITISH HOSPITALS : A G L Ives (1948)
132. BRITISH FARM STOCK : The Earl of Portsmouth
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