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JOURNEY UP THE THAMES: William Morris and Modern England

Price: £4.95
ISBN 10: 
0-907-12368-6
This edition: 
2000
Blurb: 

Journey Up The Thames follows the course of the river to its source, the same hourney taken by William Morris in News From Nowhere.

John Payne explores both the villages and towns he passes through and the ambiguities of modern life in modern England.

William Morris’s ideas about democracy, craft, technology and the countryside form the backdrop to this journey which ends “By this sweet stream that knows not of the sea.”

John Payne has written books on adult education and a travel book about Catalonia.
 

Contents: 

William Morris and London, Hampton: citizens and subjects

Runnymead: a reflection on democracy]

Windsor,Eton and Slough

Cookham:a very English village?

Reading and work

Abingdon and risk

Oxford – two cities for the price of one, Kelmscott and the English countryside

Life, the universe and everything; a trip to the source of the Thames.