About Britain

Tim Cole is Professor of Social History at the University of Bristol and Director of the Brigstow Institute, which brings researchers together across the university to work with those outside it exploring what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. When not journeying through the landscape and along the highways and by-ways of Britain, Tim lectures on modern history with an interest in geography and place.@TimCole_Bristol

• About Britain1 West Country: Barnstaple–Exeter–Torquay (76 miles)2 Wessex: Southampton–Whitchurch–Salisbury (104 miles)3 Home Counties: Canterbury–Margate–Canterbury (104 miles)4 East Anglia: Cambridge–Littleport–King’s Lynn (124 miles)5 Chilterns to Black Country: Stafford–Coventry–Oxford (104 miles)6 South Wales and the Marches: Hereford–Merthyr Tydfil–Caerleon–Hereford (147 miles)7 North Wales and the Marches: Caernarvon–Capel Curig–Caernarvon (88 miles)8 East Midlands and the Peak: Stamford–Ashby-de-la-Zouch–Stamford (108 miles)9 Lancashire and Yorkshire: Southport–Glusburn–York (108 miles)10 The Lakes to Tyneside: Newcastle on Tyne–Otterburn–Durham (108 miles)11 Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh–Perth–Glasgow(146 miles)12 Highlands and Islands of Scotland: Perth–Crianlarich–Oban (128 miles)Back About BritainNotesAcknowledgements

About Britain is a warm and timely meditation on our changing relationship with the landscape, industry and transport, providing a glimpse of modern Britain as seen from the driver's seat.