Great Britain & Maps, topography and geography of the British Isles and coastine, walking tours and oddly British curiosities.
MIKE AND PEGGY BRIGGS Book Number: 92355 |
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A beautiful glossy colour compendium for every family bookcase with gorgeous colour photographs, one or two per page of gardens, parks and trees, farmland, hedgerows and verges, woods and forests, ...
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PAUL RABBITTS Book Number: 92501 |
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This special history book describes the importance of music in parks and open spaces, the growth of the brass band movement, the legacy of the pleasure gardens movement, the impact of the great fou...
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PHILIP WILKINSON Book Number: 92502 |
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Abbey Road Studios, The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St. Ives, Tate Modern at Bankside, the Lloyds Building, Rochdale Pioneers' Shop, Farfield Meeting House near Addingham, a bea...
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JENNIFER KAVANAGH Book Number: 92440 |
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Sub-titled 'True Tales From London's Streets', the book is an x-ray of life and stories in their own words of those who live and work in our capital. On the surface, the streets of London in 1861 ...
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IAN BEETLESTONE Book Number: 92455 |
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''Has anybody in here got a degree?' demanded the examiner as he opened his introductory talk on the Knowledge of London at the Old Public Carriage Office in October 2008. One or two of us in the ...
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MERLIN COVERLEY Book Number: 92465 |
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From the alchemical experiments practised by Queen Elizabeth I's favoured scientist Dr Dee to the arcane rituals of magicians like Aleister Crowley in the 20th century, this book uncovers ritual an...
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CHRISTOPHER LLOYD Book Number: 92484 |
Published price: £29.95
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Sub-titled 'An Art Lover's Guide to Great Britain and Ireland', this expensive-looking Thames & Hudson publication reproduces 273 colour illustrations in a personal selection by the author. Christ...
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AMY JEFFS Book Number: 92493 |
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Cambridge academic, artist and art historian specialising in the Middle Ages, Amy Jeffs has worked at the British Library's department of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern manuscripts and here is ...
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STEPHEN WYNN Book Number: 92258 |
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From the Pen & Sword Military Books (Your Towns and Cities in World War Two) series the book does in fact cover the Tower of London which not technically in the City but within Tower Hamlets, and w...
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GUSTAV MILNE Book Number: 92273 |
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During the Blitz, the very familiar sinuous shape of the Thames under moonlight directed waves of bombers to valuable targets like warehouses, industries, power stations, offices, docks and the ass...
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SINCLAIR MCKAY Book Number: 92253 |
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Sub-titled 'A Journey Through the Second World War's Hidden Bases and Battlegrounds', discover locations full of history and intrigue where brave men and women perform top-secret and dangerous work...
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NOT ACTUAL SIZE Book Number: 92551 |
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Embarrassed, awkward and charmingly insecure in their tastes, based on a cult blog, here is the perfect guide to navigating the trials, tribulations and dilemmas of being middle class in Britain to...
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NEIL HOLMES Book Number: 92159 |
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Merseyside was hammered during the war, being a major port and distribution centre, and this fascinating book uses a technique of blending old photos from the blitz with modern ones from the same a...
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ASHLEY BUTLIN & IONA BUTLIN Book Number: 92583 |
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Axed by Beeching in 1969, the Waverley Route ran through the Border country to Carlisle, providing vital transportation for the Lothian coalfields and the developing tourist industry. Intense lobb...
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R. TOURRET Book Number: 92585 |
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In 1929 there were over one million men out of work, and the government of the day took steps to create jobs in the construction industry by offering to pay the interest on loans raised for the dev...
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JOHN SENIOR & COLIN REEVE Book Number: 92587 |
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Map your way around Manchester with a handbook that fits perfectly in the traveller's coat or backpack. The city was home to many great transport links: John Greenwood's first British horse bus ser...
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DEREK TAIT Book Number: 92590 |
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Cornwall has had a rich history from the prehistoric period, the Norman Conquest and the turbulent Tudor age, to the Civil War and the First and Second World Wars. The chapters of the book look at ...
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SIMON JENKINS Book Number: 91687 |
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A beautifully bound large hardback with spectacular colour photography throughout and map presenting Yorkshire's 92 most impressive, interesting or unusual dwellings, from Castle Howard and magnifi...
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MICHAEL PASCOE Book Number: 92637 |
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A photographic history in big quality softback celebrating the great engineering achievement of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge which he called in his diary 'My first c...
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IAN THOMPSON Book Number: 92761 |
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Alfred Wainwright, creator of the famous fell walking guidebooks, moved to Kendal from Blackburn when he was almost 35. Even William Wordsworth did not settle permanently in Grasmere until he was ...
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SANDRA LAWRENCE Book Number: 92793 |
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Utterly unique, press-out over 50 landmark buildings to transform your book into a work of art. Once the card buildings have been removed and constructed, you can fan out the book to create your o...
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LEONORA RUSTAMOVA Book Number: 92860 |
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Yorkshire is a county with more strangeness than you can shake a Dale walking stick at. Home of Robin Hood (born in Barnsdale), Guy Fawkes, Dick Turpin and Dracula (Bram Stoker wrote part of the v...
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