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The Story of the World's Greatest Fishing Port British Isles
Peter Chapman
Breedon 2007 160 pages
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Paperback Illustrated 1859835996
Published Price £12.99 Sale Price £2.99
Between 1800 and 1900 Grimsby's population soared from 1,000 to 63,000 and went on rising. From the coming of the railway, the construction of the docks and the town's booming prosperity as the world's greatest fishing port, to the decline in the fishing industry and exodus of many inhabitants in recent decades, this book tells the story of an irrepressible town that, although reduced in stature, is far from finished.
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A Cultural History British Isles
Mike Sinclair
Oxford University Press 2007 255 pages
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Hardback 0195314921
Published Price $30.00 Sale Price £3.99
The backdrop for Magna Carta, Handel's Water Music and the Profumo affair, the Thamses is England's most famous river. This guidebook with a difference pauses frequently on the journey from its source to the Barrier to explore the human activity - art, literature, sport, education, industry, government - which has grown up around the river.
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Harry Gordon Slade
Society of Antiquaries 2000 128 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 0854312773 260x200mm
Published Price £29.95 Sale Price £4.99
Glamis Castle, seat of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne since the 1370s, was the childhood home of the late Queen Mother and has as many royal associations as it has architectural splendours. In this richly detailed account, Slade weaves the strands of family history into the castle's architectural development as he traces its various incarnations: from medieval castle to a royal palace in 1537; from a great house in Scottish Baronial style in 1600 to Baroque mansion in 1695; and finally an enormous late Victorian country house of 'little comfort and less convenience.'
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British Isles
Alan Crosby
Phillimore 2003 210 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 1860772625 272x205mm
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Woking owes its modern origins to a cemetery company which exploited the potential of cheap land within easy reach of London to promote speculative buildings around a railway station in the midst of an empty heath. The town's eccentric development continued with the building of two prisons, a huge lunatic asylum, Britain's first crematorium, a retirement home for actors and actresses, a mosque and an Oriental institute. Crosby explains all in this second edition of his illustrated town history.
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A Pictorial History British Isles
David J Bradbury
Phillimore 2005 128 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 1860773370 246x184mm
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At the time of the Domesday Survey, Mansfield was already an important regional centre, where a major royal estate and the Sherwood Forest were administered. In the late 18th century the market town was rapidly transformed by the coming of water-powered spinning mills, iron foundries and sand quarries. Seasoned local historian David Bradbury has chosen 174 representative illustrations to chronicle the town's long and varied history.
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British Isles
Nigel Gilbert
Phillimore 2004 246 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 1860773095 245x163mm
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Kidderminster has had a long and colourful history, but the town has fallen foul of modern town planning. Nigel Gilbert's detailed and well-illustrated study describes what architectural vandalism has obscured: a history stretching back to the Roman period, intriguing questions surrounding an 8th century monastery and 'a proud record of nonconformity and awkwardness' in more recent centuries.
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A History British Isles
David Taylor
Phillimore 2003 150 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 1860772471 246x185mm
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David Taylor traces the history of this Surrey town over two millennia, from the Iron Age settlement on Leigh Hill to the Roman era, when the bathhouse at Chatley Farm was built, through the medieval period to the 17th century, Civil War and the arrival of Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, who set about clearing land on St George's Hill. The story ends in the 1960s, when Cobham's quiet, rural atmosphere was disturbed by the unmasking of a Russian spy.
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or The Road to Milton Keynes British Isles
Beryl Bainbridge
Carroll & Graf 1997 158 pages
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Paperback 0786704209
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Using the conventions of British travel writing, Beryl Bainbridge updates JB Priestley's classic Depression-era journey from Southampton, via the Black Country and the Tyne and Tees, to East Anglia - and to the heart and soul of England.
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Crime, Death and Debauchery British Isles
Giles Brindley
Sutton 2006 216 pages
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Paperback Illustrated 075093820X
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Giles Brindley provides a highly original alternative history of Oxford by concentrating on the city's seedier side. This detailed collection of infamy and scandalous behaviour includes murders, duelling, robbery, suicide, gambling, rioting and executions, as well as probing the perennial tensions between town and gown.
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Its Romance and History British Isles
Reginald Jacobs
Nonsuch 2007 144 pages
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Paperback 1845883624
Published Price £10.00 Sale Price £1.99
First published in 1913, this account begins with a 'convent garden' belonging to Westminster Abbey in the 17th century and ends three centuries later, with Covent Garden as the world's most famous vegetable market. The book examines the area's historic landmarks, including the Royal Opera House and St Paul's Church, as well as the eminent inhabitants - including Charles Lamb, Samuel Johnson and the celebrated actors of Drury Lane - who contributed to Covent Garden's unique character.
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A History British Isles
Richard Stone
Phillimore 2003 134 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 1860772781 245x178mm
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Once the royal centre of the Kings of Mercia, Tamworth has yet to regain its Dark Ages importance, but the centuries have been full of interest - from the building of Tamworth Castle to the Second World War prisoner-of-war camp. Richard Stones's history also deals with Tamworth's illustrious inhabitants - the Marmion, Ferrers and Peel families.
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with Holland-on-Sea and Jaywick British Isles
Norman Jacobs
Phillimore 2002 134 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 1860772250 245x184mm
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Illustrated with vintage photographs and advertisements ('No-Passport Day Excursion to Boulogne' - 40 shillings), this history of Clacton evokes the heyday of the English seaside holiday. From 1872, when the Royal Hotel stood alone on the cliff top, it follows the building of the town, the boom years, Butlins and the post-war downturn; but there are also chapters on a much older Clacton - for this relatively new town stands on one of the oldest sites of human habitation in Britain.
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A History British Isles
Richard Stone
Phillimore 2004 134 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 1860773125 246x182mm
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Burton upon Trent has a surprisingly long history, as archaeology shows that the Trent Valley was occupied by humans over 250,000 years ago, and in medieval times the local Benedictine Monastery brought five centuries of modest prosperity. But it was beer which put the town on the international map, as Burton became famous in the 19th century as the 'brewing capital of the world'. Local resident and freelance writer and broadcaster, Richard Stone provides a well-illustrated, chronological account of the town's development.
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Sea Robbers and the War against Piracy British Isles
Joel Baer
Tempus 2005 256 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 0752423045
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The history of piracy is as old as maritime trade, but if this crime had a 'golden age' it was between 1660 and 1730. Focusing on these years, this book examines the development of semi-legal privateering into no-holds-barred buccaneering, through the lives of six freebooters. From Henry Morgan who became Governor of Jamaica, to Bartholomew Roberts - killed in action against HMS Swallow - it details the exuberant, murderous lives, crimes and fates of Britain's most notorious pirates.
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British Isles
Janice Anderson; Edmund Swinglehurst
Carlton 2003 256 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 1842229494 277x215mm
Published Price £20.00 Sale Price £5.99
Office workers of the 1920s with pens and ink instead of the computer screens of today; opera, the preserve of the elite in 1955, shown on giant screens outside Covent Garden; women campaigning for the vote in 1909 and manning a polling station in 1999 - in an engrossing series of juxtapositions, this book sets photographs of British life in the first half of the 20th century alongside their present-day equivalents, throwing changes in sport, leisure, work, industry, life in the city and the countryside into sharp relief.
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