Ronald Brunskill

Ronald William Brunskill OBE is an academic who was Reader in Architecture at the University of Manchester. He is an authority on the history of architecture and particularly on British vernacular architecture.

Brunskill contributed significantly to assessing the date, extent and impact of the Great Rebuilding of England. Brunskill accepted that for much of England W. G. Hoskins' thesis that in the Great Rebuilding spanned the period from 1570 to 1640. But Brunskill contended that the period varied both by region and by social class: starting in South East England and among the higher-income social classes, and then spreading both geographically west and north and socially to lower-income classes.^[1]

In 1990 Brunskill was awarded an OBE for services to conservation.

Published works

• Brick and Clay Building in Britain. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1990 [2009]. ISBN 0-300-11687-X. 
• English Brickwork. London: Ward Lock & Co. 1978 [1977]. ISBN 0-7063-5087-1. 
• Houses. London: HarperCollins. 1982. ISBN 0-00-216243-1. 
• Houses and Cottages of Britain: Origins and Development of Traditional Buildings. Vernacular Buildings Series. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 2006. ISBN 0-575-07122-2. 
• Illustrated Handbook of Vernacular Architecture (4th ed.). London: Faber and Faber. 2000 [1971]. ISBN 0-571-19503-2. 
• Timber Building in Britain. London: Cassell's Reference. 2006 [2004]. ISBN 0-304-36665-X. 
• Traditional Buildings of Britain: An Introduction to Vernacular Architecture. London: Cassell's. 2006 [1985]. ISBN 0-304-36676-5. 
• Traditional Farm Buildings and Their Conservation. Vernacular Buildings. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2007. ISBN 0-300-12319-1. 
• Traditional Farm Buildings of Britain. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1999 [1982]. ISBN 0-575-06634-2. 
• Traditional Buildings of Cumbria: The country of the Lakes. London: Cassell's Reference. 2002. 
• Vernacular Architecture of the Lake Counties: A Field Handbook. London: Faber and Faber. 1978 [1974]. ISBN 0-571-09459-7. 

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