Dan Cruickshank
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| Born | Daniel Gordon Raffan Cruickshank[1] 26 August 1949 |
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Daniel Gordon Raffan Cruickshank (born 26 August 1949) is a British art historian and BBC television presenter, with a special interest in the history of architecture.
Professional career
Cruickshank holds a BA in Art, Design and Architecture
He has served as Historic Buildings Consultant for
In 2014, he was appointed President of Subterranea Britannica, a UK-based society for all those interested in man-made and man-used underground structures and space.[5]
His professional publications include London: the Art of Georgian Building (1975),[6] The National Trust and Irish Georgian Society Guide to the Georgian Buildings of Britain and Ireland (1985) and Life in the Georgian City (1990).
He edited the 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's History of Architecture[7] and Timeless Architecture: a study of key buildings in architectural history and is a contributing editor to Architects' Journal, The Architectural Review and Perspectives on Architecture.
Television work
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Cruickshank began his career with the BBC as consultant, writer and presenter on the architectural programmes
In 2001 he wrote and presented the series
Further series included Britain's Best Buildings examining architecturally – or culturally-significant buildings in Great Britain, Under Fire visiting museums and buildings in Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel to see how recent warfare has affected the country's historic artefacts, and What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us focusing on the scientific, technological and political changes of the 19th century.
In 2003, Cruickshank presented a documentary entitled Towering Ambitions: Dan Cruickshank at Ground Zero following the debate and discussion that led to the selection of Daniel Libeskind's design for the World Trade Center site in New York City; while in 2005 he presented a documentary on the Mitchell and Kenyon collection – rolls of nitrate film shot in the early 20th century, depicting everyday life in Britain, which were discovered in 1994 in Blackburn.
In 2004, Cruickshank was at the centre of a controversy when historian Marc Morris said that a documentary about Harlech Castle shown on BBC4 and billed as "written and presented by Dan Cruickshank" contained obvious borrowings from Morris's earlier Channel 4 series, Castle. The BBC subsequently stated that Cruickshank was not responsible and that it was an error by researchers.[9] Channel 4's head of history programming, Hamish Mykura, commented that "When a programme claims to have an author's voice, it should be that author's voice and no one else's". The BBC subsequently made a "goodwill payment" to Morris in recognition of the error.[citation needed]
In 2005, Cruickshank presented Around the World in 80 Treasures, charting his five-month trip around the world to visit eighty man-made artefacts or buildings that he had selected, in order to chart the history of mankind's civilisation.
In 2006, Cruickshank presented
Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture, a 2008 series in which he travelled around the world visiting what he considered to be the world's most unusual and interesting buildings.
In 2010, he embarked on a 3 part series on the history of the railways in Britain for
Personal life
Cruickshank lives in a Georgian house in Spitalfields, London, which he shares with his partner, the painter Marenka Gabeler, their two sons, and his daughter from a previous marriage.[10] The house was among those he featured when presenting the BBC television programme Ours to Keep – Incomers in 1985, when he discussed the role of the Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust, a charity of which he was a co-founder in the 1970s.
Cruickshank had previously lived in a Victorian house in Bloomsbury when he was a student in the 1970s.[11]
Filmography
- 1985 Ours to Keep - Incomers guest presenter
- 1993 One Foot in the Past guest presenter
- 1997–2002 The House Detectives presenter
- 1997 Travels with Pevsner: Norfolk with Dan Cruickshank writer and presenter
- 2001 Timewatch writer and presenter
- 2001 Invasion writer and presenter
- 2002 Omnibus: Dan Cruickshank and the Lost Treasure of Kabul writer and presenter
- 2002 The Lost World of Tyntesfield writer and presenter
- 2002 Britain's Best Buildings writer and presenter
- 2003 Under Fire writer and presenter
- 2003 Towering Ambitions: Dan Cruickshank at Ground Zero writer and presenter
- 2003 What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us writer and presenter
- 2005 Around the World in 80 Treasures writer and presenter
- 2005 The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon presenter
- 2005 Egyptian Journeys with Dan Cruickshank writer and presenter
- 2006 The Lost World of Friese-Greene
- 2006 Betjeman & Me presenter
- 2006 Marvels of the Modern Age writer and presenter
- 2006 The Lost World of Tibet presenter
- 2006 Britain's Best Buildings writer and presenter
- 2008 Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture writer and presenter
- 2009 Cruickshank on Kew The Garden That Changed The World writer and presenter
- 2009 The Art of Dying writer and presenter[12]
- 2010 Great Railway Adventures writer and presenter
- 2010 Britain's Park Story writer and presenter
- 2011 The Country House Revealed writer and presenter
- 2012 Brick by Brick: Rebuilding Our Past presenter along with Charlie Luxton
- 2012 The Bridges That Built London
- 2012 London: A Tale of Two Cities with Dan Cruickshank
- 2013 The Fairytale Castles of King Ludwig II with Dan Cruickshank writer and presenter
- 2014 The Life of Rock with Brian Pernas himself
- 2014 Majesty and Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces writer and presenter
- 2014 Dan Cruickshank and the Family That Built Gothic Britain[13]
- 2015 Dan Cruickshank's Civilisation Under Attack[14]
- 2015 Dan Cruickshank: Resurrecting History – Warsaw[15]
- 2016 Dan Cruickshank: At Home with the British[16]
- 2018 The Road To Palmyra (with Don McCullin)[17]
- 2018 Dan Cruickshank's Monuments of Remembrance[18]
Bibliography
- Cruickshank, Dan; Wyld, Peter (1975). London: the Art of Georgian Building. The Architectural Press.
- Cruickshank, Dan; Amery, Colin (1975). The Rape of Britain. Elek (Paul) (Scientific Books). ISBN 978-0-236-31019-7.
- Cruickshank, Dan (1985). National Trust and the Irish Georgian Society Guide to Georgian Buildings of Britain and Ireland. Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated. ISBN 978-0-297-78610-8.
- Cruickshank, Dan; Burton, Neil (1990). Life in the Georgian City. ISBN 978-0-670-81266-0.
- Cruickshank, Dan; Rivers, Tony; Darley, Gillian; Pawley, Martin (1993). The Name of the Room: History of the British House and Home. ISBN 978-0-563-36321-7.
- Cruickshank, Dan, ed. (1996). ISBN 978-0-7506-2267-7.
- Cruickshank, Dan, ed. (2000). Architecture: The Critics' Choice. Aurum Press Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85410-720-6.
- Cruickshank, Dan, ed. (2001). Invasion: Defending Britain from Attack. ISBN 978-0-7522-2029-1.
- Cruickshank, Dan (2002). The Story of Britain's Best Buildings. ISBN 978-0-563-48823-1.
- Cruickshank, Dan; Vincent, David (2003). Under Fire. ISBN 978-0-563-48768-5.
- Cruickshank, Dan (2004). The Royal Hospital Chelsea: The Place and the People. Third Millennium. ISBN 978-1-903942-27-7.
- Cruickshank, Dan; Jackson, Nicola; ISBN 978-1-86000-221-2.
- Cruickshank, Dan; Brindle, Steven (2005). Brunel: The Man Who Built the World. ISBN 978-0-297-84408-2.
- Cruickshank, Dan (2005). Around the World in Eighty Treasures. ISBN 978-0-297-84399-3.
- Cruickshank, Dan (2008). Adventures in Architecture. ISBN 978-0-297-84444-0.
- Cruickshank, Dan (2009). The Secret History of Georgian London: how the wages of sin shaped the capital. ISBN 978-1-84794-537-2. (Also released under the title London's Sinful Secret by St. Martin's Press in New York in the same year)
- Cruickshank, Dan (2011). The Country House Revealed: A Secret History of the British Ancestral Home. ISBN 9781849902069.
- Cruickshank, Dan (2015). A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings. ISBN 9780007575589.
- Cruickshank, Dan (2016). Spitalfields : two thousand years of English history in one neighbourhood. ISBN 9781847947079.
- Cruickshank, Dan (2020). Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People. ISBN 9781780224954.
- Cruickshank, Dan (2021). Cruickshank's London: A Portrait of a City in 13 Walks. Random House. p. 560. ISBN 9781847948236.
References
- ^ "Daniel Gordon Raffan CRUICKSHANK - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". Companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ a b "Bio". Celebrity Productions. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ "Meet the Team | Euston Arch". Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
- ^ "Professor Dan Cruickshank Biography". Archived from the original on 20 August 2008. Retrieved 27 May 2008.
- ^ "About Subterranea Britannica". Retrieved 8 December 2014.
- ISBN 9780803801431.
- ^ "Dan Cruickshank - Speaker Profile".
- ^ "BBC Two - Timewatch, 2001-2002, the Victorian Way of Death: From Body Snatching to Burning".
- ^ "Broadcaster gets apology from BBC as history repeats itself", The Guardian, 28 May 2004. Accessed 16 January 2014
- ^ Duncan, Alistair (15 November 2009). "My Space: Dan Cruickshank, historian". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
- ^ Greenstreet, Rosanna. "Dan Cruickshank reflects on his student flat in Bloomsbury".
- ^ "The Art of Dying, BBC Four". 30 September 2009.
- ^ "Dan Cruickshank and the Family That Built Gothic Britain - BBC Four". BBC.
- ^ "Dan Cruickshank's Civilisation Under Attack, BBC Four". www.theartsdesk.com. July 2015.
- ^ "Wednesday's best TV: Dan Cruickshank: Resurrecting History – Warsaw". The Guardian. 2 December 2015.
- ^ "Dan Cruickshank: At Home with the British". www.hayfestival.com. 31 May 2016.
- ^ ""When I think of IS, I detest them beyond imagination": war photographer Don McCullin heads to Syria for new BBC4 documentary". www.radiotimes.com.
- ^ "Dan Cruickshank's Monuments of Remembrance". www.bbc.co.uk.
External links
- Dan Cruickshank at IMDb
- Cruickshank's comments on visiting Iraq, post-U.S. invasion (BBC)
- Cruickshank's article on visiting Jam minaret in Afghanistan (The Guardian)
- Britain's Best Buildings (BBC)
- What The Industrial Revolution Did For Us (Open University)
- The Lost World of Friese-Greene on the BBC
- Dan Cruickshank Book List and Interview
- Dan Cruickshank reflects on his student flat in Bloomsbury
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