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The Parade's Gone by
A unique history of of twentieth century life in Britain, based on the lost diaries of a travelling salesman who lived from 1878-1974, and whose extensive journals were discovered by the author Julian Dutton.
Shakespeare's Journey Home
A breathtakingly vivid portrait of Elizabethan England, 'Shakespeare's Journey Home' recreates the playwright's annual journey from London's Bishopsgate to his home in Stratford-on-Avon.
Keeping Quiet
Keeping Quiet is a love-letter to the modern sight-gag on film and television, tracing the history of physical clowning since the advent of sound. Taking up the story of visual humour where Paul Merton's Silent Comedy leaves off, Julian Dutton charts the lives and work of all the great comedians who chose to remain silent, from Charlie Chaplin - who was determined to resist the ‘talkies' - right through to the slapstick of modern-day performers such as Rowan Atkinson, Matt Lucas and Harry Hill. This fascinating chronicle - spanning nine decades - shows how physical comedy, at first overshadowed by dialogue-films in the 1930s, reinvented itself and how this revival was spearheaded by a Fren...
Water Gypsies
For centuries, living afloat on Britain's waterways has been a rich part of the fabric of our social history, from the fisherfolk of ancient Britain to the bohemian houseboat dwellers of the 1950s and beyond. Whether they have chosen to leave the land behind and take to the water or been driven there by necessity, the history of the houseboat is a unique and fascinating seam of British history. In Water Gypsies, Julian Dutton – who was born and grew up on a houseboat – traces the evolution of boat-dwelling, from an industrial phenomenon in the heyday of the canals to the rise of life afloat as an alternative lifestyle in postwar Britain. Drawing on personal accounts and with a beautiful collection of illustrations, Water Gypsies is both a vivid narrative of a unique way of life and a valuable addition to social history.
The Secret Diary of Samuel Pepys, Aged Ten & Three Quarters
'Move over, young James Bond - a new hero for children's fiction has been born!' - Jen Celti, BookNews. Samuel Pepys is famous for his grown-up diaries. Here, for the first time, are his childhood memoirs - a thrilling tale packed with excitement & adventure set against the colourful backdrop of the English Civil War. It's 1642, and young Sam is struggling with the dull routine of life at school. But when he witnesses a fellow-schoolboy plotting a secret mission with Royalists, he soon finds himself swept up in a strange quest. What is the secret of King Alfred's Jewel? Who is the mysterious Lord Falkner & his haughty, troubled sister Eleanor? Can Sam & his friends decode an old monk's treasure-map before King Charles & his troops attack Gloucester? In this 'fun, fast-moving romp, ' (Rosemary Fiennes, Gambit), Julian Dutton has woven a thrilling comical tale of the seventeenth century, as the boy who would become the famous Samuel Pepys grows up in a country at war with itself. 'Kids of 8-12 will love this. Sam is feisty, likeable, and full of a get-up-and-go that is irresistible. This book has fun and gusto in spades, ' - Jacqueline Adderley, New Fiction Review.
The British Industrial Canal
Thousands of literary, popular, non-fiction and archival texts since the eighteenth century document the human experience of the British industrial canal. This book traces networks of literary canal texts across four centuries to understand our relationships with water, with place, and with the past. In our era of climate crisis, this reading calls for a rethinking of the waterways of literature not simply as an antique transport system, but as a coal-fired energy system with implications for the present. This book demonstrates how waterways literature has always been profoundly interested in the things we dig out of the ground, and the uses to which they are put. The industrial canal never just connected parts of Britain: via its literature we read the ways in which we are in touch with previous centuries and epochs, how canals linked inland Britain to Empire, how they connected forms of labour, and people to water.
