Damage done to the city in wartime Baedeker raids and unsympathetic post-war development radically altered the townscape of Bath. Yet perhaps change has been most keenly felt in the lives of its citizens – through the respectful ’50s, swinging ’60s, sordid ’70s, and entrepreneurial ’80s. Authors Theresa Ford and Karen Birch have drawn on the unrivalled collection of The Bath Chronicle to portray familiar faces, the city at play, the city at work, the festivals, royal visitors, sports and – needless, to say – the extremes of weather that together made up the remarkable kaleidoscope that was Bath in the late twentieth century. (297x210mm, hardback, 160 pages).