George Townsend

George Townsend is a writer and curator from the Vale of White Horse, with a PhD in English from Birkbeck. His work combines social and cultural history, with recent projects exploring fairgrounds and river bathing places. His work has featured on BBC Radio 4 and in Outdoor Swimmer magazine. He’s currently writing a book about Parson’s Pleasure, a men’s bathing place in Oxford that was active between the seventeenth century and 1992.