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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.
| JOHN PILLING Book Number: 80851 |
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Illustrating the changing face of this popular town, and providing a fascinating insight into its history, an Oxfordshire historian and a professional photographer have curated this stunning select...
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| JOHN GAUNT Book Number: 73855 |
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We are a tolerant country, a fair country, a great nation and people and it's time to rejoice in our culture, our history and our traditions and firmly put the Great back into Britain. Sky Sports ...
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| PRESENTED BY SELINA SCOTT Book Number: 81648 |
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In this programme, Selina Scott uncovers the treasures of Boughton House, the home of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury. His ancestors were collectors on a grand scale and managed to fill three...
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| ROSAMOND RICHARDSON Book Number: 83433 |
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'I came to bird watching late, and immediately loved being away from the noise and business of the world. Waiting for birds became a favourite pastime.' The familiar co-presenter of BBC Two's Disc...
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| CATHERINE TUCK Book Number: 85033 |
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Britain's landscapes are full of sex, whether the viewer focuses on the naturally rounded formations of the Paps of Jura or the carefully constructed circles and uprights of Neolithic monuments suc...
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| 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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| CHARLES DICKENS Book Number: 85073 |
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Sometimes autobiographical, as childhood experiences are interwoven with adult memories, Charles Dickens's sketches include visits to the Paris Morgue, where a body he sees there has been fished ou...
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| JONATHAN WILSON Book Number: 85604 |
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Since the completion of Old Trafford in 1910, Manchester Utd have enjoyed a significant financial advantage over other English teams and indeed, United is the most successful club in English league...
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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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| BRIAN ELLIOTT Book Number: 85912 |
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Now an almost obsolete industry, at one time coalmining was Britain's most important economic trade, albeit the most dangerous. This collection of photographs and other illustrations, complete with...
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| MURRAY NAYLOR Book Number: 85915 |
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Cleverly combining his passions of railway organisation and medieval churches, the author embarks on various journeys as he explains how two great ages shaped our lives; that of the Normans who bui...
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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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| STEPHEN WADE Book Number: 85935 |
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Intriguing, dramatic accounts of Yorkshire women who felt the need to kill. The trauma of childbirth, especially when the baby was illegitimate, frequently led to the child's murder, such as in the...
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| SAM JORDISON Book Number: 85662 |
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I spy the queue jumper, the Union Jack, the pub bore, the bagpiper, the crisp sandwich, the boy racer, the curtain twitcher, the deep fried Mars bar and the Loch Ness Monster. Just like the popula...
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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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| C. V. WEDGWOOD Book Number: 85983 |
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Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) specialised in the history of 17th century England and Continental Europe. Originally published in the Collin's Pictures of Britain series, this super lit...
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| JULIA SKINNER Book Number: 85993 |
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The lake at Greenhead Park c.1960 is chosen for the front cover, a view our Annie has known for over half a century! Enjoy recipes for Yorkshire Curd Tart or Fat Rascals, pictures of the old shops...
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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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| HUMPHREY PHELPS Book Number: 86007 |
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First published in a local magazine between 1976 and 1986, these nostalgic and reminiscing articles take us back to hard winters and hard hands in the predominantly livestock district of West Glouc...
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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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| GEOFF PLUMB Book Number: 86356 |
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The Big Four railway companies were nationalised in 1948, and the newly formed British Railways embarked on a programme of building new 'Standard' steam locomotives to replace older types from 1951...
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| DAVID WRAGG Book Number: 86360 |
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The arrival of the railways cannot be underestimated. Even in the middle of the 19th century, the streets of London were so congested that in 1867, no less than 3.5 million of the eight million pa...
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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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