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Jonathan HillRadio historian, author, editor & publisher |
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Jonathan HillRadio historian, author, editor & publisher |
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If I had to describe Jonathan Hill in a nutshell then I would just use "Radio! Radio!" as he is the author, editor and publisher of this best known of all the books dealing with British Vintage radio sets.
He grew up in Mutley, Plymouth where in the 1960s he attended Sutton High School and later won a scholarship to Plymouth Art College.
Arriving in London in the early 1970s, he studied 3-D design at the ceramics department of the Central School of Art, obtaining a B.A. Honours Degree in 1974. Initially a lecturer in ceramics, he became increasingly intererested in photography and writing and is now a freelance portrait and still-life photographer and the author of several radio-related books.
His involmement with the subject began during his time at Central where he wrote a thesis on wireless cabinet design and also began collecting receivers from the 1920s and the 1930s periods. In 1976, along with five other collectors, he jointly founded the British Vintage Wireless Society which is dedicated to the study of wireless and broadcasting history and which today has a worldwide membership of well over 1,000.
Jonathan Hill has designed and presented two major exhibitions in London -"The Cat's Wisker" radio exhibition at the Geffrye Museum in 1978 and the"The Television in the Home" at the Royal Festival Hall in 1986 which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the BBC tv. Apart from photography and writing he also organizes and runs the popular National Vintage Communication Fair held twice a year, at Wembley in London and at the NEC in Birmingham. Here collectors find on sale all sorts of electrical & mechanical antiques and collectables, with a special enphasis placed on vintage radios, early television, classic audio & hi-fi, loudspeakers, telephones, gramophones and scientific instruments. They also have the opportunity of meeting the various collectors' clubs and societies and the specialist magazines involved in the subject.
Also by the author:
The Cat's Whisker, 50 Years of Wireless Design, Oresko Books, London, 1978.
Television in the Home, Museum of Moving Image, London, 1986.
Old Radio Sets, hire Publications Ltd., Princes Risborough, 1993.
Audio! Audio! (with John Howes), Sunrise Press, Bampton, Devon, 1995
Radio! Radio!, Sunrise Press, Bampton, Devon, 1995
Jonathan Hill can now be reached at: Sunrise Press, Spice House, 13 Belmont Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 2HF, tel.(01392) 411565.
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