The Proms: A New History (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

A lavishly illustrated history of the Proms, Britain’s favourite musical institution ‘Will delight any proms buff; and the authoritative narration provides a kind of wide-angle record of British musical tastes over the 20th century’ The Guardian ‘Warm, weighty and welcoming … a richly illustrated tome packed with evocative anecdotes about the great and the good and a plethora of easily assimilable facts and fi gures’ History Today Here is the complete story of one of the most enduring institutions in British cultural life: the Proms.

This lavishly illustrated book describes the Proms’ history by focusing on how changes in society have infl uenced its development, at the same time as revealing how the Proms has been responsible for shaping the tastes and listening habits of our whole nation.