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Brand: The History Press
Athlete and TV presenter Sally Gunnell, actress Joan Sims, singer Billy Bragg, footballer Bobby Moore, chef Jamie Oliver, author John Fowles, film director Basil Dearden, playwright Sarah Kane, and the infamous highwayman Dick Turpin are among perso..
18.55£
With this book Greg brings his journalistic skills, writing talents and fascination with Hamilton Airport to bear. A master storyteller, McMillan relates the airport's history, present and future while profiling many of the businesses benefiting dir..
23.08£
Brand: The History Press
'His photographic skills enabled him to convert what he felt about Whitby and the countryside around it-the feelings he carried inside himself from the time he came from smoky Leeds as a child to first see the coast-into a visual tribute which goes ..
26.31£
Brand: The History Press
This witty, warm and altogether delightful look at the history of music hall in Preston will fascinate lovers of musical history everywhere. Travelling from back-street alehouses to palatial theatres and featuring internationally recognised stars of..
18.34£
Brand: The History Press
If ever there was a regional UK city with the credentials to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham was always it. One in ten people in the city was born in an overseas Commonwealth country, and many more have family in member nations such as ..
23.34£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
From Our House to Penthouse takes you on a nostalgic trip down memory lane to a London that disappeared not so long ago. Pubs gutted to make way for coffee chains! Arenas and cinemas bulldozed to make way for hotels! Dog tracks and football grounds ..
51.09£
Contrasting a selection of 45 archive images alongside full-colour modern photographs, this stunning book traces some of the changes and developments that have taken place in Gateshead during the last century. Accompanied by detailed and informativ..
17.05£
Brand: The History Press
'There was nowhere the smell enveloped you as it did at Glasgow Cross. At that interchange of roads and cultures, the smells came in great swathes... if you had your eyes closed you could tell almost exactly where you were.' For Michael Meighan, all..
15.60£
Brand: The History Press
If you stand today in the middle of Gloucester you're standing above two thousand years of accumulated history. Beneath your feet is a Roman fortress, a proud colonial city, a Saxon royal centre, a prosperous medieval market town, a Roundhead bastio..
20.84£
This book chronicles the development of Greenbank House from its origins in a rural Toxteth Park in the mid 18th century to the present day. Home to the prominent merchant Rathbone family from 1788 until it was donated by them in 1944 to the Univers..
31.21£
Brand: The History Press
Steeped in history and rich in culture, it's little wonder that Yorkshire has a lot to offer in the realm of ghosts and supernatural phenomena. From ghostly hounds on the North Moors to a phantom highwayman in Sheffield, and from the Oxenhope spectr..
16.87£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
This is the classic book on the ancient customs, crafts and techniques of the Scottish Highlands. The past is evoked with a fascinating blend of historical narrative and detail, with descriptions of the fireplaces and furniture, the creels and cas c..
21.26£
Brand: The History Press
The humble hop cone once offered thousands of underpriviledged Londoners the annual chance to leave the City's smog in August and September, migrate to the healthier countryside and live happily for six or seven weeks in near squalor, whilst sleepin..
18.51£
Brand: The History Press
Never before has the full history of Hatton Garden and its diamond and jewellery trade been revealed in such detail.Stories of individuals who made the community what it is today and events that are usually hidden from the public's eye have been com..
50.34£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
'A gripping, heart-breaking account of the famine winter of 1847' - Rosemary Goring, The Herald Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize When Scotland's 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and..
18.20£
Come on an absorbing journey to unearth the adventures, inventions, legends, firsts, and birthplaces that have shaped the unique history of Ireland. ISBN: 9781910821138Publisher: Rydon PublishingImprint: Rydon PublishingPublished date: 09 Nov 2017DE..
14.04£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
Many travellers have had their imaginations captured by the beautiful Hebridean island of Islay and have been moved to write about it, among them the renowned Thomas Pennant and Martin Martin. But Ileachs - the natives of Islay - have also been insp..
18.22£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
The city of Nottingham has long been one of Britain's most important cities. As Nottinghamshire grew in prosperity during the Middle Ages the city became the heart of a prosperous local centre of trade and business. Later, during the Industrial Revo..
19.30£
At the foundation of the State in 1922, Kimmage was just a crossroads (KCR), with farmland all around, but then thousands of houses were built by Dublin Corporation in the 1930s, bringing life to the area. In earlier times, the old Larkfield Flour M..
23.36£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
Knoydart - the northern edge of the 'Rough Bounds' is one of the most evocative names in Scotland. This text offers a history of Knoydart from the earliest times to the present day. A remote and desolate peninsula, its name derives from Viking settl..
15.28£
Brand: The History Press
Third Selection ISBN: 9780750931502Publisher: The History PressImprint: The History PressPublished date: 15 Apr 2004DEWEY: 942.49608DEWEY edition: 22Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 159Weight: 394gHeight: 171mmWidth: 243mmSpine width: 10mm..
15.47£
Brand: The History Press
Ledbury lies in a quiet corner of Herefordshire, just about equidistant from the cities of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester. Remote, but not isolated, the town is surrounded by ancient wooded hills, while the River Leadon, from which the town is t..
21.19£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
The key to the study of rural Wales is the living past, for many features of the culture and social life of Welsh country people are of great antiquity. The pattern of settlement brought into being by the medieval system of inheritance is still reco..
23.85£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
The unique tale of the great port and city of 'Leverpul' begins in 1207; it does not even appear in William the Conqueror's Domesday Book of 1086. Liverpool was created by the belligerent English monarch King John. Within sixty years of the end of t..
21.60£