Douglas Westcott is a pseudonym for a well-known Bath businessman. The son of a Polish immigrant who fled to England after the First World War Westcott was orphaned at 17 left school and started as a messenger boy for a property agency in London. His entire working life has been spent in the world of commercial property investment culminating in the multi-million pound public company he founded. Married with three children he has lived in Bath for over 30 years and seen its development at first hand. A Director of its Theatre Royal in past years he and his wife Elizabeth have become much involved with the homeless and youth of Bath through local charities and The Brain of Bath Annual Quiz and the Wessex Property Club both of which were founded by the author.
Through my research I am committed to uncovering womens stories of conflict whether as military partners or as combatants in order to question gendered understandings of how we know war and what this means for contemporary military cultures and behaviours. I completed my PhD at the University of Bath in 2022 which was entitled: ‘What…
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The Baths Arts Workshop was a 1970s counterculture of creativity and enterprise. The associated book is an intimate and often hilarious account of how this arts movement exploded upon an 18th-century city.
Accessible Living is a new publication that takes a look at all residential spaces -- whether stand-alone or multi-family structures -- and the design construction and/or adaptations involved to make these spaces “accessible” and allow for independent living.