REVISIONARY SUBURBIA

Bibliography

The Suburban Landscape: Two Hundred Years of Gardens and Gardening

MoDA, Middlesex University, June 2007- March 2008

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Development of Suburbia

Dana Arnold, Rural Urbanism. London Landscapes in the Early Nineteenth Century Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005

Arthur Edwards, The Design of Suburbia: A Critical Study in Environmental History, London: Pembridge Press, 1981

Robert Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New York, Basic Books,1987

Elain Harwood & Andrew Saint, London, HMSO/English Heritage 1991

Alan Jackson, Semi-Detached London: Suburban Development, Life and Transport, 1900 -1939, London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd, 1973

Alan Jackson, London’s Metroland, Capital Transport Publishing, 2006

London Parks and Gardens Trust, London’s Garden Suburbs. Community Landscape and the Urban Ideal. The Proceedings of the 2000 Autumn Conference. London: LPGT 2001

Alison Ravetz with Richard Turkington, The Place of Home. English Domestic Environments, 1914-2000 London: E&FN Spon, 1995

Alison Ravetz, Council Housing and Culture, The History of a Social Experiment, London: Routledge, 2000

J.M. Richards, Castles on the Ground. The Anatomy of Suburbia, London: Architectural Press, 1946 and John Murray 1973. (1st published in 1946) Antonia Rubinstein ed. with Andy Andrews and Pam Schweitzer, Just Like the Country Memories of the London Families Who Settled the New Cottage 1919-1939, London: Age Exchange, 1991

Melanie Louise Simo, Loudon and the Landscape. From Country Seat to Metropolis, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988

FML Thompson (ed), The Rise of Suburbia Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1982

URBED with the TCPA, A City of Villages. Promoting a Sustainable Future for London’s Suburbs, London: Greater London Authority, London: August 2002 Report (ISBN 1 85261 393 9)

Development of Gardening

Jane Brown, In Pursuit of Paradise, London, Harper Collins, 2000

Thomas Church, Gardens Are For People Berkley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1993. (1st published 1955) Stephen Constantine, “Amateur Gardening: A Popular Recreation in the Nineteenth and

Twentieth Centuries” Journal of Social History Vol.14 issue no.3 1981 Susan Campbell, Walled Kitchen Gardens, Shire Books, 2006 Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall, The Garden: An English Love Affair, London, 2002 Tom Fort, The Grass is Greener; Our Love Affair with the Lawn, Harper Collins, 2001 Anne Helmreich, The English Garden and National Identity, Cambridge University Press,

2002 Charles Quest-Ritson, The English Garden. A Social History, London, Penguin Viking, 2001 RHS Gardening Matters Series, “Front Gardens” 2006 (pamphlet). RHS Publications The Garden Magazine Joan Morgan & Alison Richards A Paradise Out of a Common Field.The Pleasures and

Plenty of the Victorian Garden, London, Harper Collins, 1990 Anne Wilkinson, The Victorian Gardener, Sutton Publishing, 2006

History of Enfield and Barnet

E Cheney, ‘Little Grove, Cat Hill, East Barnet: listing report for English Heritage’, 1991 Bridget Cherry & Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: London 4: North (Penguin)

Andrew Crowe, The Parks and Woodlands of London (1987)

Alan Dumayne, Southgate: A Glimpse into the Past, London: self published by Alan Dumayne, 1987 Matthew Eccleston, Enfield: Portrait of a London Borough, Enfield, self published, 1996 Graham Dalling, Southgate and Edmonton Past. A Study in Divergence London: Historical

Publications, 1996 Graham Dalling, Enfield Past , London, Historical Publications, 1999 Stewart Gillies and Pamela Taylor, Hendon, Child’s Hill, Golder’s Green and Mill Hill,

Phillimore & Co Ltd 1993

Douglas Haigh, Old Park: in the Manor of Enfield: A Literary Exploration into the Past London: self published by Douglas Haigh, 1983 Jan Hewlett, Ian Yarham, David Curson, “Nature Conservation in Barnet”, London Ecology

Unit, 1997 Steven Hollowell, Enclosure Records for Historians, Phillimore & Co Ltd, 2000. R Ingall, The Trees of Avenue House Finchley (1983); Arthur Mee The King’s England: London North of the Thames except the City and

Westminster (Hodder & Stoughton Ltd) 1972 Paddy Musgrove, Avenue House Finchley, The Finchley Society (undated) JM Neeson, Commoners: common right, enclosure and social change in England, 1700

1820, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

David Pam, A Victorian Suburb 1837-1914, vol. 2 of A History of Enfield, Enfield: Enfield Preservation Society, 1992 David Pam, A Desirable Neighbourhood 1914-1939, vol. 3 of A History of Enfield, Enfield,

Enfield Preservation Society, 1994 Hugh Petrie, Hendon and Golders Green Past, London: Historical Publications, 2005.

Pymmes Park leaflet, LB Enfield Parks Business Unit (2001/2) Michael Robbins, A New Survey of England: Middlesex, London, Collins, 1953 Michael Symes “William Pitt the Elder The Gran Mago of Landscape Gardening”, Garden

History Vol 24 No.1 Summer 1996 pp.126-136. Pamela Taylor, Barnet and Hadley Past, London: Historical Publications, 2002 Watling Estate Conservation Area Character Appraisal Statement, LB Barnet, 1998

Links

www.british-history.ac.uk has the “Victoria County History of Middlesex” digitised and easy to access.

www.enfield.gov.uk more on the history of Enfield, under ‘Archives general information’

www.barnet.gov.uk archives contains pocket guides to the local history of Barnet

www.bl.ac.uk listings the British Library catalogue enables researchers to find details of many more books and publications about gardens, including many which are now out of print.

www.londongardenstrust.org The London Inventory of Historic Green Spaces; a comprehensive listing of more than 2000 historic open green spaces – parks, gardens, squares, churchyards, cemeteries, commons and greens – in the Greater London boroughs

Some Useful Organisations

English Heritage

Hampstead Garden Suburb

Historical Environment/Local Management

London Parks & Gardens Trust

Museum of Garden History

Natural England

National Museum of Gardening Red Cross Gardens www.bost.org.uk/redcross.php

Royal Horticultural Society

RHS Lindley Library

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Royal Town Planning Institute