The Bath Magazine, Issue 55

Reference Number: PP/2018/55
Level of Description: Item
Title: The Bath Magazine, Issue 55
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Harrad, Lindsey: Editor
Various: Author
MC Publishing Ltd: Publisher
Date: April 2007
Extent: Pages: 80
Description: Articles include the following: A new future for the Holburne (an interview with director Alexander Sturgis on plans to refurbish the Holburne Museum), pp. 10-11; Crescents and Countryside (an historic walk around Sion Hill and the Cotswold Way which takes in Blaine's Folly) by Andrew Swift, p. 14; Written in Twerton (an article on Henry Fielding's demolished house at Twerton and the periods that he and his sister Sarah spent in the city) by Andrew Swift, pp. 28-29; The house on Orange Grove (a history of the eighteenth-century Nassau House which stood in Orange Grove and which was demolished at the end of the nineteenth century) by Cathryn Spence, pp. 38-39; Bowdlerised! (a brief history of the Bowdler family who lived in various locations in Bath and their attempts to censor great works of literature. A copy of this article can also be found at PP/2222) by Trevor Fawcett, p. 40; Elegance and exploitation (an account of the slave trade and its links to luxury trades in Britain, particularly the sugar trade) by Victoria Barwell, pp. 42-43.
Subject: Architectural heritage
Authors
Censorship
Museums
Rambling
Sugar trade