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Reviews of Books

After three issues published by Alan Sutton, Bath History's editorial committee, led by Trevor Fawcett, have switched to a new publisher, but retained the format of this handsome and well-illustrated yearbook. In post-industrial Britain, with leisure and consumption challenging work and production as motors of history and history itself becoming heritage, the history of Bath has become of considerable national significance. Bath's Georgian heyday has been powerfully analysed by such varied historians as R.S. Neale, Penelope Corfield and Peter Borsay. It is, therefore, no mean compliment to say that the essays published in Bath History are, in most cases, useful and scholarly contributions to the effort to understand Bath in national perspective. Previous issues have, for example, contained articles clearly furthering Neale's critique of aristocratic Bath (Davis on entertainments and Poole on radicalism), as well as less critical accounts of the provision of health and consumer services (for example, Fawcett's own essays on dancing teachers, sedan chairs and luxury shops). This volume maintains a high standard of writing and academic reference and successfully balances the demands of local interest with those of broader significance. It also continues what has been in some ways the most refreshing aspect of the journal's output, namely its determination to do justice to all periods of Bath's past and not merely its Georgian phase. The classical phase is represented here by R. Tomlin's article on the inscriptions found on lead tablets cast into the Roman springs. Jean Manco then takes further what has been perhaps the strongest theme of the journal so far, namely the detailed reconstruction of Bath's building history in its pre-Georgian phases, as pioneered by Marta Inskip and Elizabeth Holland. John Wroughton deepens his previous accounts of the Civil War in Bath and its hinterland by considering the role of religious and cultural divisions in creating factions both within Bath and in the city's relations with its gentry neighbours and central government.