‘The Wye Valley’ (1927) Ward Lock Travel Guide | Olde Timey Book Review
Book Reviewed: The Wye Valley (London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1927)
With a trusty Ward Lock “Red” Guide in their pocket, tens of thousands of British tourist travelled around these isles in the late 19th and early 20th century. In this OTBR I take a look at an example of one of these Red guides, examining the historical context in which it was written and its utility as reference material when travelling today.
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References
The Wye Valley Illustrated Guidebook (London: Ward, Lock, & Co., 1927)
Adventure in Publishing: The House Of Ward Lock, 1854 to 1954 by Edward Living (London: Ward Lock, 1954)
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing Edited by Peter Duncan Hulme (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Education, Literacy and the Reading Public by Amy J. Lloyd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) [https://www.gale.com/binaries/content/assets/gale-us-en/primary-sources/intl-gps/intl-gps-essays/full-ghn-contextual-essays/ghn_essay_bln_lloyd3_website.pdf]
Website dedicated to the Ward Lock Red Guides with plenty of information of their history: https://wlrg.z33.web.core.windows.net/page/aboutRG.html
Olde Timey Book Review is a series examining vintage books, focusing on them as cultural artefacts within their historical context rather than solely on the texts themselves. The tone is affectionate towards these books that are at least half a century old. These videos are for people interested in literary heritage and in discovering the peculiar variety of topics that authors approached, each in their own unique style.
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