Writer, art historian and broadcaster James Fox discusses his new book Craftland, a chronicle of Britain's lost arts and vanishing trades, and the people keeping them alive.
For generations, the tradition of making and building things by hand was one of the cornerstones of the British identity. In his vibrant new book Craftland, James Fox travels the length and breadth of Britain to find its last great craftspeople - the blacksmiths and wheelwrights, cutlers and coopers, bodgers and badgers - still practicing a richer, more connected way of life that is endangered... but not yet lost.
James Fox is an art historian, writer, curator and multi-award-winning broadcaster, known for his many acclaimed BBC documentaries. He is Director of Studies in History of Art at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Creative Director of the Hugo Burge Foundation, a charity dedicated to supporting the arts and crafts across Britain. He is also the author of 2021's celebrated The World According to Colour: A Cultural History. He will be discussing all-things Craftland with the most excellent Dan Thompson, a writer, curator, social artist and director at Marine Studios in Margate.
