John Hannavy has several book projects currently in preparation. To check out the contents and sample pages of three of them, click on the cover images above.
He has been writing, editing and publishing books on the
history of photography, local history, and history through photography
since 1974, the most recent being Around Scotland's Shores (GW Publishing 2009), The Victorians and Edwardians at Work and The Victorians and Edwardians at Play (Shire 2009),and before them,the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography (Routledge 2007) and Great Photographic Journeys
(Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2007). For details of other
book projects, click the appropriate title in the bar, above, or the individual book covers below.
Book Projects not yet published
Scotland's Heritage - a photographic journey through Scotland and her islands
is a travelogue exploring the landscape, the heritage and the allure of Scotland, and will feature John Hannavy's finest images of his native country. It follows in the style and tradition of some of the country's most enduring published accounts, with more than a passing reference to Boswell and Johnson, Thomas Pennant, Daniel Defoe, H V Morton and others, who have all explored Scotland, enjoyed its finest, endured its worst, and come back for more. Illustrated in stunning colour throughout, the book presents a picture of the country in several of her many guises, and celebrates the changing light which constantly redefines and reinterprets the landscape. A publisher for this project is currently being sought.
Victorian and Edwardian Scotland in Colour This book explores life and work in Scotland between 1850 and 1910 through a stunning collection of Victorian and Edwardian photographs and postcards, the majority of them tinted. Arranged thematically, the sections look at everything from the jobs people did, to the many ways they occupied their limited holiday and leisure time. Included are fine studies of the hardy 'Scotch Fisher Lassies' who worked their way down the east coast of Britain gutting and pickling the herring, the people who lived and worked on Scotland's canals, the men who crewed the country's trains, trams and ferries, and a host of others. A publisher for this project is currently being sought.
Victorians and Edwardians on the move
is the fifth volume in John Hannavy's series for Shire, using early photography and postcards to explore life in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Taking the broad theme of transport and the development of transport systems, the book will look at the impact which improved road and rail networks had on the mobility of the workforce, as well as looking at how British freight was shipped around the world. From the horse to the aeroplane, it all happened during the reigns of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII. The military on the move – in a time when mechanisation was making rapid inroads – will also be explored. A publication date will be announced shortly. Click on the cover to go straight to the web page.
Picturing the Past – an Unconventional Pocket History of Photography
is a new book project which sets out to deliver exactly what it says on
the cover! Instead of revisiting the standard chronological account of
photography's first one hundred and eighty years, the book picks up a
number of themes and explores how they have influenced photography as
we know it today. The selected themes are diverse, some of them focused
on early photography – such as early patents, the first cameras, the
first studios – while others pick up on themes of love and marriage,
death, war, and many more, and look at how they have been dealt with by
generations of photographers. The quest for colour, the development of
speed systems, early exposure meters, and the relationship between guns
and the terminology used in photography, are all explored. For more information and to see some specimen pages, click the project title on the links bar, above right. A publisher for this project is currently being sought. Click on the cover to go straight to the web page.
The Victorians and Edwardians at Waris a visual account of Britain's military achievements, through contemporary photographs and postcards. Over the past forty years, John Hannavy has made a long and detailed study of war photography, originally concentrating on the Crimean War, but subsequently broadening out to include a more general interest in the photography of Britain's armed forces at peace and at war up until the end of the Edwardian era, just a few years before the outbreak of the Great War. This book brings together nearly two hundred photographs and postcards covering the period from 1850 to 1910, and offers a rich visual history of the Victorians and Edwardians at war. A publisher for this project will be sought when the book has reached a more advanced stage.
Thomas Keith & John Forbes White's ScotlandInterest in the early Waxed Paper photography of Thomas Keith and John Forbes White has increased considerably in the 25 years since the publication of Thomas Keith's Scotland by Canongate in 1981. This project involves a major reappraisal of the work of these two eminent amateurs, with a view to publishing a revised monograph on their work. For more information and to see some specimen pages, click the project title on the links bar, above right. Click on the cover to go straight to the web page.
Scotland's Mediaeval Religious Houses
is a photographic celebration of the cathedrals, abbeys, priories, collegiate churches, friaries and nunneries of mediaeval Scotland. The result of several years travelling throughout the country, the book contains stunning images of every surviving site – from the well known to the lesser known.A publisher is being sought for this book. For more information and to see some specimen spreads click book title on the links bar, above right. Click on the cover to go straight to the web page.
BACK CATALOGUE of books by John Hannavy:
Victorians and Edwardians at Work
Oxford: Shire Publications, 2009 ISBN 978 0 7478 0719 3
Victorians and Edwardians at Play
Oxford: Shire Publications, 2009 ISBN 978 0 7478 0720 9
Around Scotland's Shores – Victorians and Edwardians in Colour
Thatcham: GW Publishing, 2009 ISBN 978 0 9561211 1 0
Britain's Working Coast in Victorian and Edwardian Times
Oxford: Shire Publications, 2008, 2010 ISBN 978 0 7478 0678 3
Great Photographic Journeys - in the footsteps of pioneer British photographers
Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2007 ISBN 978 1 904587 54 5
The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography
New York & Abingdon: Routledge, 2007 ISBN 0 415 97235 3
Case Histories - the Presentation of the Victorian Photographic Portrait 1840-1875Woodbridge: Antique Collectors Club, 2005, ISBN 0 85149 481 2
Wigan History & Guide
Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2003, History Press, 2008 ISBN 0 7524 3099 8
The English Seaside in Victorian and Edwardian Times
Market Risborough: Shire Books, 2003, Oxford: Shire Publications, 2008 ISBN 0 7478 0571 7
James Date's Exmoor and West Somerset
(with Ben Norman and Hilary Binding) Tiverton: Halsgrove/Exmoor Books, 2002,
ISBN 0 7524 3099 8
Images of a Century - the Centenary of the British Institute of Professional Photography
Ware: BIPP, 2001,
Wigan and Standish Now and Then - 1900-2000
Wigan: Smiths Books, 1999, ISBN 0 9510680 8 3
Working in Wigan Mills
(with Chris Ryan) Wigan: Smith's Books, 1987, ISBN 0 9510680 2 4
Living & Working in Wigan
(with Chris Ryan) Wigan: Smith's Books, 1986, ISBN 0 9510680 16
Wigan Pier - An Illustrated History
(with Jack Winstanley) Wigan: Smith's Books, 1985, ISBN 0 9510680 0 8
Pictures of Wigan - the First 60 Years
Wigan: Wigantech Publications, 1985, ISBN 0 946629 43 9
Maypole - Diary of a Mining Disaster
(with Roy Lewis) Wigan: Wigantech
Publications, 1983,
ISBN 0 9500 280 9 6 (hardback) 0 9500 280 8 8
(paperback)
Victorian Photographers at Work
Market Risborough: Shire Books, 1997, ISBN 0 7478 0358 7
Obras Maestras de la Royal Photographic Society
(with Michael Gray, Pamela Roberts, Rafael Martinez Cortina and Marie Loup Sougez) Madrid: Fundacion Natwest, 1993, Déposito legal M-14839-1993
Working World - What's the Difference?
Aylesbury: Ginn, 1991, ISBN 0 602 23988 5
Complete Users Guide to the Canon T60
Tolworth: Hove-Fountain Books, 1990, ISBN 0 86343 335 9
Historic Wigan
Preston: Carnegie Publishing, 1990, ISBN 0 748789 58 1
Better Landscape Photography
(with Duncan McEwan) Tolworth: Hove-Fountain Books, 1988, ISBN 0 86343 120 8
Applying Visual Communication
Wigan: Comtech/Open Tech, 1986, ISBN 0 946629 50 1
Understanding Visual Communication
Wigan: Comtech/Open Tech, 1986, ISBN 0 946629 51 X
A Moment in Time - Scottish Contributions to Photography 1840-1920
Glasgow: BBC/Interbook, 1983, ISBN 0 906474 29 9
Thomas Keith's Scotland
Edinburgh: Canongate, 1981, ISBN 0 903937 73 5
The Victorian Professional Photographer
Market Risborough: Shire Books, 1980, ISBN 0 85363 524 9
Pictures of Wigan
Wigan: Wigan College of Technology 1978
Lifelines: Fox Talbot
Market Risborough: Shire Books, 1976, 1984, 1987, 1997, ISBN 0 7478 0351 X
Masters of Victorian Photography
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, New York: Holmes Meier, Sydney: Ure Smith, 1976,
ISBN 0 7153 7032 4
The Camera Goes to War
(with John Sweetman) Edinburgh, Scottish Arts Council 1975
Roger Fenton of Crimble Hall
London: Gordon Fraser, Boston: David R Goldine,
ISBN 0 900406 41 0 1975
Prospect of Scotland
Edinburgh: John Bartholomew, 1974 ISBN 0 85152 916 X
