Bruce A. Bailey
Bruce Anthony Bailey ALA FSA (born March 1937) is an English author, architectural historian, archivist, librarian, freelance lecturer and photographer. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 1 January 2003. He lives near the village of Lowick, Northamptonshire, works as an archivist and librarian, and is a Trustee of the Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust.
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Bruce A. Bailey
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- 1937
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- historian · photographer · librarian · archivist
- Honours
- Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
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Bruce Anthony Bailey ALA FSA (born March 1937) is an English author, architectural historian, archivist, librarian, freelance lecturer and photographer. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 1 January 2003. He lives near the village of Lowick, Northamptonshire, works as an archivist and librarian, and is a Trustee of the Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust.
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Bruce A. Bailey (born 1937) is an archivist, historian and librarian, among other activities. Honours include Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
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Bruce Bailey was born in Northampton.
Professional work
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Bailey works as Archivist/Librarian at Drayton House, a Grade I listed stately home near Lowick, Northamptonshire; he also does archival work for the Spencer family's Althorp Estate. Photographs by Bailey of buildings in Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire and Herefordshire are held in the Historic England Archive. Photographs by him are also held in the Conway Library archive of the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, currently undergoing a digitisation project known as Courtauld Connects. Around 70 of his photographs of monuments and statues can be viewed on the Courtauld's Art & Architecture website.
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Contributions to Pevsner Architectural Guides
Contributions to Pevsner Architectural Guides
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Selected articles in Northamptonshire Past & Present
Selected articles in Northamptonshire Past & Present
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Other articles and contributions
Other articles and contributions
• Contributed drawings and cartography to R L Greenall, A History of Northamptonshire, London: Phillimore, 1979. • Contributed photographs to Margaret Whinney, Sculpture in Britain, 1530-1830, 2nd edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. • Biographical article on Sir Charles Edmund Isham, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. • 'Drayton House and its Marble Buffet: A Reconstruction', article with sketch plan and colour illustration, The Furniture History Society newsletter, May 2008.
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- 1.FreeBMD - Search. www.freebmd.org.uk.
- 2.Mr Bruce Bailey. Society of Antiquaries of London.
- 3.Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust - Trustees. www.nhct.org.uk.
- 4.Bailey, Bruce Yale University Press. yalebooks.yale.edu.
- 5.Bruce Bailey Collection (BLY01) Archive Collection Historic England. historicengland.org.uk.
- 6.Who made the Conway Library?. Digital Media. 2020-06-30.
- 7.A&A Search Results. www.artandarchitecture.org.uk.
- 8.Greenall, R. L. A history of Northamptonshire. Phillimore. 1979. 9780850333497.
- 9.Whinney, Margaret. Sculpture in Britain, 1530-1830. Yale University Press. 1992. 978-0-300-05318-0.
- 10.Isham, Sir Charles Edmund, tenth baronet (1819–1903), rural improver and gardener. 2004. 978-0-19-861412-8.
- 11.Drayton House and its Marble Buffet: A Reconstruction. Furniture History Society.
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