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The King's England

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The King's England is a topographical and historical book series written and edited by Arthur Mee in 42 volumes. It was said that the series was a modern Domesday Book and that the compilers had travelled half-a-million miles in order to complete their task. The first, introductory, volume was published in 1936. In 1989, The King's England Press was established to reprint the series.

Original titles

The first title in the series was the introductory volume, Enchanted Land: Half-a-million miles in the King's England, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1936.^[1] It was said that the series was a modern Domesday Book and that the compilers had travelled half-a-million miles in order to complete their task.

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Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
Cornwall
Derbyshire
Devon
Dorset
Durham
Essex
Gloucestershire
Hampshire with the Isle of Wight
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire: London's Country Neighbour
Kent
Lake Counties
Lancashire
Leicestershire and Rutland
Lincolnshire
London: Heart of the Empire and Wonder of the World (1937)
Middlesex (1940)
Monmouthshire
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Shropshire
Somerset
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
Warwickshire
Wiltshire
Worcestershire
Yorkshire – East Riding
Yorkshire – North Riding
Yorkshire – West Riding

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Revised titles

In 1970, the London volume was split into three. Bomb damage during the Second World War, the subsequent post-war reconstruction and alterations to local government boundaries in 1965 all made it difficult to properly treat London in one volume.^[2] The new volumes, which brought the total to 42, were:

London North of the Thames except the City and Westminster (1972)
London – The City and Westminster
London South of the Thames

Reprints

In 1989, The King's England Press was established to reprint the series, "recognising the need for them, both as excellent guidebooks and now with the added dimension as historical documents in their own right."^[3]

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.publishinghistory.com/kings-england-arthur-mee.html |title=The King's England |first=David Paul |last=Wagner |publisher=publishinghistory.com |accessdate=26 May 2016}}
2. ^"Preface" by Ann Saunders (1972) in London North of the Thames. London: Hodder & Stoughton. p. ix {{ISBN|0340158743}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=About the company|url=http://www.kingsengland.com/PBCPPlayer.asp?ID=773748|publisher=The King's England Press|accessdate=7 April 2016}}

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