After attending Barrow Grammar School (now Furness Academy) Barrow born author and academic Ian Thompson went on to study Philosophy at Newcastle University (1974-77), and later completed a B. Phil and PhD in Landscape Architecture. After qualifying as a landscape architect he worked in practice first in Glasgow and then on Tyneside. Between 1986 and 1992 he was a Senior Landscape Architect in the Planning Department of Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council. He currently teaches postgraduate Landscape Architecture at Newcastle University.
(source http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/details.aspx?tpid=2517)
His latest book 'The English Lakes' was published by Bloomsbury in April 2010 and is a superb, beautifully illustrated history of one of Britain’s favourite regions.
"He (Thompson) reckons that he owes his existence to the tradition of working-class fell-walking, since much of his parents’ courtship was conducted when they were out for the day with the Barrow and District Ramblers. He started fell-walking as a child, and remembers teetering along Striding Edge on Helvellyn with other Barrow Grammar School boys, hoping the gale would not get under their cycle capes and lift them off."
See full book review here;
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article7082758.ece
His latest book 'The English Lakes' was published by Bloomsbury in April 2010 and is a superb, beautifully illustrated history of one of Britain’s favourite regions.
"He (Thompson) reckons that he owes his existence to the tradition of working-class fell-walking, since much of his parents’ courtship was conducted when they were out for the day with the Barrow and District Ramblers. He started fell-walking as a child, and remembers teetering along Striding Edge on Helvellyn with other Barrow Grammar School boys, hoping the gale would not get under their cycle capes and lift them off."
See full book review here;
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article7082758.ece
Cumbria Libraries and The Norman Nicholson Society in association with Bloomsbury Publishing PLC proudly host an evening with Ian Thompson on Friday 26th November 2010 at 7.30pm in Barrow Library.
Tickets for this event cost £2 including refreshments and are available now from Barrow Library (Tel: 01229 407370). Free to members of The Norman Nicholson Society.
"Every ten years a new generation needs a history of the Lake District – and this looks like being the one for the next ten years." Hunter Davies
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