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| Language | English |
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| Genre | Guidebook |
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Publication date | 1934–1984 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell | |
The Shell Guides were originally a 20th-century series of guidebooks on the counties of Britain. They were aimed at a new breed of car-driving metropolitan tourist, and for those who sought guides that were neither too serious nor too shallow and who took pleasure in the ordinary and peculiar culture of small town Britain. In the three decades after the Second World War the Shell Guides provided a surreptitiously subversive synthesis of the British countryside.[1]
- ^ "Shell Guides to Britain". The Guardian. 15 May 2008. Archived from the original on 26 September 2018.