{"product_id":"wrestling-in-the-north-1980s-peter-byrne","title":"Wrestling in the North 1980s - Peter Byrne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWrestling in the North 1980s - Peter Byrne - \u003cspan\u003eCafé Royal Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\"\u003e\"Growing up in the 1970s, Peter Byrne loved watching professional wrestling on television. He found boxing too violent, but, with wrestling, “you had pure theater, and a great deal of fun. There were guys bashing the hell out of each other, but you kind of knew nobody really got hurt.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\"\u003eIn 1988, Byrne was in his last year as a photography student at Harrogate College of Higher Education in the United Kingdom. For his final project, he spent about three months driving around on Friday and Saturday nights in his friend’s Citroen 2CV photographing professional wrestling events across northern England at venues including the Barnsley Civic, Scunthorpe’s Baths Hall, Wakefield’s Unity Hall, and the Blackpool Tower Circus.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e36 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eprinted in the UK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003estaple bound\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e14cm x 20cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout Café Royal Books:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\"Café Royal Books is the idea of Craig Atkinson, an artist and lecturer. Our first title was published in 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eCraig wanted to create a way to make artwork accessible to a wider audience. The solution needed to be small, functional, open to collaboration, affordable, and work independently of galleries. These ideas remain at the heart of what we do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eWe’re a small family-run publisher based in England, next to the woodland, dunes, and windswept beaches of the North West coast — we’re always inspired by the vastness, calm and energy of this environment. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eWe make weekly publications, focussing on documentary photography linked to Britain and Ireland, printed and bound locally by a small 170 year old printing company. Libraries and museums around the world collect the books, so the work will remain preserved and accessible for many years. Our books don’t need batteries, or screens. We hope they will be used, create conversation and be passed down through family generations.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eExplore other titles from the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/unitom.info\/collections\/cafe-royal-books\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCafé Royal Books\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ecollection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e36 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eprinted in the UK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003estaple bound\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e14cm x 20cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout Café Royal Books:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\"Café Royal Books is the idea of Craig Atkinson, an artist and lecturer. Our first title was published in 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eCraig wanted to create a way to make artwork accessible to a wider audience. The solution needed to be small, functional, open to collaboration, affordable, and work independently of galleries. These ideas remain at the heart of what we do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eWe’re a small family-run publisher based in England, next to the woodland, dunes, and windswept beaches of the North West coast — we’re always inspired by the vastness, calm and energy of this environment. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eWe make weekly publications, focussing on documentary photography linked to Britain and Ireland, printed and bound locally by a small 170 year old printing company. Libraries and museums around the world collect the books, so the work will remain preserved and accessible for many years. Our books don’t need batteries, or screens. We hope they will be used, create conversation and be passed down through family generations.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eExplore other titles from the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/unitom.info\/collections\/cafe-royal-books\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCafé Royal Books\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ecollection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Café Royal Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39648949960791,"sku":"","price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2009\/7115\/files\/WrestlingintheNorth1980sPeterByrneCafeRoyalBooks.jpg?v=1781956819","url":"https:\/\/unitom.info\/products\/wrestling-in-the-north-1980s-peter-byrne","provider":"UNITOM","version":"1.0","type":"link"}