Dr Julian Holder teaches at Oxford University where he is a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College. An architectural historian specializing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, he has a long abiding love of Arts and Crafts architecture. Widely published over a long career he has held a number of posts in academia and conservation, including have been an Inspector of Historic Buildings, Director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies at Edinburgh College of Art and was the first Casework Office of the Twentieth Century Society.
I think this book will be a valuable tool, for both students and
for readers who are new to the subject.
*The Victorian*
a welcome and timely edition; a pithy, popular history, written in
an accessible and readable style that is unencumbered by lengthy
quotations, and features a large number of colour
illustrations.
*The Victorian*
this is an utterly readable and enjoyable book, giving new insights
into the circumstances, the times and the characters of the leading
architects and designers of the era.
*The Orchard*
this is a valuable and very readable addition to the growing
literature on the arts-and-crafts movement.
*Institute of Historic Building Conservation*
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