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Great Britain, Maps & the Environment
Great Britain, Maps & the Environment
Great Britain & Maps, topography and geography of the British Isles and coastine, walking tours and oddly British curiosities.
| ALAN SUTTON Book Number: 85538 |
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'All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small...' Not often are we able to stare into the past but this brilliant collection of sepia photographs and written accounts of life in t...
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| R. D. BLUMENFELD Book Number: 85690 |
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Here are extracts from the Daily Express Editor's Diaries ranging from 1887 to 1914 and the outbreak of World War One. He begins with a wonderful day spent for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee cele...
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| MICHALE HASTED Book Number: 85714 |
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From January 21st to December 31st, dip in any day to read extracts from the Cheltenham Looker-On, history books, local and national newspapers, The Stage and many other sources about entertainment...
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| DEREK TAIT Book Number: 85907 |
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This visual panorama of the city of Bath in the Great War draws on local newspaper archives to provide a fascinating insight into life on the home front. Kitchener is pictured on a platform addres...
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| DAVID MILLICHOPE Book Number: 85920 |
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Halifax's experience of the Great War was different to that of many other large towns and cities. A garrison town (home of the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment), within days the public moo...
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| ROY INGLETON Book Number: 85924 |
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Take a drive through the delightful countryside of the Garden of England - who would have thought that a crime as terrible as murder would happen in a place of such natural beauty? Ingleton has wr...
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| ICON FILMS Book Number: 85672 |
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Out of the box British eccentricity with cold cases to heat up your inner detective, epic fails, good sports, great British heists, and escapes, medical curios, music, maths, stars turning up in st...
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| MARILYN YURDAN Book Number: 85862 |
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The book is full of funfairs and festivals, celebrations and exhibitions, games and shows, fêtes and carnivals, a few of them solemn but most unashamedly frivolous. A photograph from June 1955 sho...
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| CHRIS WEST Book Number: 86000 |
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Still seen in faded paintwork on brick walls, chiselled stone or in rusting ironwork atop gates and fencing, most towns have one or two famous old signs that everyone knows. But now we can be surp...
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| EVE CHIPPING Book Number: 86006 |
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From the quirky expressions that hold clues to the county's rich past, to the glossary packed with words which bring the local language to life, explore the fascinating county of Gloucestershire. ...
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| ZOE BRAMLEY Book Number: 86028 |
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'This throne of kings, this sceptred isle, this earth of majesty' - William Shakespeare's own words celebrate the majesty of the country that praised his work during his life and continued to celeb...
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| CHRISTOPHER CHIPPINDALE Book Number: 86172 |
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A point of pilgrimage for archaeologists, mystics, astronomers, tourists, artists, and poets, Stonehenge has been imagined in many different ways. Christopher Chippindale's book uses ideas and insi...
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| PATRICK TAYLOR Book Number: 86392 |
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Having studied architecture, the author went to York University to study for an MA in Conservation Studies in 1992 and encountered the phenomenon of local distinctiveness of toll houses. He looks ...
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| TIM JENKINSON & PATRICK TAYLOR Book Number: 86393 |
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A companion to code 86392 Toll Houses of Cambridgeshire, this is the very first detailed study of Staffordshire's toll-houses, small buildings on the highway edge, lived in by the pike-men who coll...
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| PETER WAINE & OLIVER HILLIAM Book Number: 86426 |
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The Green Belt is an idea less than 100 years old, here described by Ray Mears; Landscaping and Tourism is explored by Melvyn Bragg; National Parks, the Country Code introduced by Caroline Quentin,...
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| JANE COMMON Book Number: 86668 |
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We celebrate the only travel guide to the United Kingdom written by dogs... for dogs! Phileas Dogg stylishly takes you from the heart of England to Scotland and Wales, with sections on the North We...
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| ROSALIND HOPWOOD Book Number: 86624 |
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Natural springs, water jets, rills and cascades all incorporate moving water and water features within architectural structures probably originated in Greece and Asia Minor. They originated as a s...
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| HANS VON TROTHA Book Number: 86507 |
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One of the collectable Haus first editions (2009) with attractive blood red cloth binding and tipped in pastoral illustration on the front cover. English garden design was entirely reinvented duri...
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| CATHARINE ARNOLD Book Number: 86758 |
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From Hamlet Act 1, "Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat in this distracted Globe." William Shakespeare's life was inextricably linked with the history of London. Togethe...
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| EDMONDO DE AMICIS Book Number: 86878 |
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The poet, novelist and travel writer Edmondo de Amicis (1846-1908) began his career as a soldier before switching to journalism. He is best remembered for his children's stories Heart of a Boy. T...
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| HENRY MAYHEW Book Number: 56595 |
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A masterpiece of social observation. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and...
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| ISOBEL CHARMAN Book Number: 87009 |
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Sub-titled 'The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo 1826-1851'. Georgian London in the Age of Empire, domestic reform and industrialisation, this is a history of a new world and ...
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| JOHN RUSSELL Book Number: 86372 |
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A journey from Newbury to Bath in 1964, goodness how much has changed in 55 years! This photographic journey takes us along a well-trodden footpath, under ancient bridges, over locks and swing bri...
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| DAVID COOKE Book Number: 87291 |
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Amid the mutinous conflicts of the Civil War in the 17th century, a bloody battle raged in Yorkshire to claim the North. Between December 1642 and July 1644, Lord Fairfax and his army fought for pa...
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| JOHN BETJEMAN Book Number: 86954 |
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Between 1962 and 1964, the poet John Betjeman made 12 films about the West Country he loved so much. At the peak of his powers, he had just published his acclaimed autobiographical poem Summoned b...
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| DEMAND MEDIA Book Number: 87404 |
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The one hour long film is a superb programme that looks at the GWR as it was in the 1950s and 60s and more recently. Archive scenes capture the true essence with its Brunellian stations and platfo...
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| KATE WINKLER DAWSON Book Number: 87568 |
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While a deadly, thick smog held London hostage for five days in December 1952, a killer stalked the streets under the cloak of polluted darkness, John Reginald Christie. Kate Winkler Dawson is a se...
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| ROBERT HALLMANN Book Number: 87580 |
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In 1956, Robert Hallman visited London for a day and fell in love with the city forever, using up two films on his camera rather than the usual one image per scene allowance he limited himself to w...
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| CHRIS HANDLEY Book Number: 87392 |
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As seen on HTV's Lost Railways this book is the product of nearly 30 years research by the author, a well known historian, and it is illustrated with over 130 photographs, maps, plans, posters and ...
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| BARCLAY PRICE Book Number: 88076 |
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More than 400,000 Chinese people live in Britain today, with substantial numbers also attending British universities as well as visiting the country on business and as tourists. But, prior to this ...
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