{"title":"Books by Roger Hutchinson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780349141220","title":"The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of each decade for 200 years the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic wars to the age of the internet, through the agricultural and industrial revolutions, possession of the biggest empire on earth and the devastation of the 20th century's two world wars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker\u003c\/i\u003e, Roger Hutchinson looks at every census between the first in 1801 and the latest in 2011. He uses this much-loved resource of family historians to paint a vivid picture of a society experiencing unprecedented changes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHutchinson explores the controversial creation of the British census. He follows its development from a head-count of the population conducted by clerks with quill pens, to a computerised survey which is designed to discover 'the address, place of birth, religion, marital status, ability to speak English and self-perceived national identity of every twenty-seven-year-old Welsh-speaking Sikh metalworker living in Swansea'.\u003cbr\u003eAll human life is here, from prime ministers to peasants and paupers, from Irish rebels to English patriots, from the last native speakers of Cornish to the first professional footballers, from communities of prostitutes to individuals called 'abecedarians' who made a living from teaching the alphabet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker\u003c\/i\u003e is as original and unique as those people and their islands on the cutting edge of Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56287074484597,"sku":"9780349141220","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349141220_b9860357-e7c9-4659-8e21-773f748c875c.jpg?v=1786013417"},{"product_id":"9781841586779","title":"Calum's Road","description":"'An incredible testament to one man’s determination' – The Sunday HeraldCalum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his responsibilities. 'So what he decided to do', says his last neighbour, Donald MacLeod, 'was to build a road out of Arnish in his months off. With a road he hoped new generations of people would return to Arnish and all the north end of Raasay'.And so, at the age of 56, Calum MacLeod, the last man left in northern Raasay, set about single-handedly constructing the 'impossible' road. It would become a romantic, quixotic venture, a kind of sculpture; an obsessive work of art so perfect in every gradient, culvert and supporting wall that its creation occupied almost twenty years of his life. In Calum's Road Roger Hutchinson recounts the extraordinary story of this remarkable man's devotion to his visionary project.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307970965877,"sku":"9781841586779","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781841586779_ff3bb3e3-8635-466b-844d-ecbd8881f493.jpg?v=1786028472"},{"product_id":"island-of-roe-deer","title":"Island of Roe Deer","description":"This is the story of the Hebridean island of Raasay from the time of the hunter-gatherers to the 21st century. It is dramatic tale which includes Irish missionaries, Viking invaders, the medieval Lordship of the Isles, adoption by the crown of Scotland and centuries of peace in the clan system. During this time Raasay’s people developed their own character and be-came known for their musicality, seamanship and proudly independent nature.   Retribution for their Jacobite sympathies was severe and was followed in the 19th century by clearance and decline. At times in the 20th century Raasay’s future looked bleak: an iron mine established before the First World War was abandoned, 200 hundred German prisoners-of-war came and left, and absentee landowners drifted in and out until the entire island was nationalised by the state.   But at the start of the 21st century, stability and optimism was generated by the establishment of several community-led housing and energy projects and a new distillery. In 2026, the future looks bright.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57509969822069,"sku":"9781839830921","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781839830921.jpg?v=1787130134"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-roger-hutchinson.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}