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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 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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| 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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| MARTIN WALLACE Book Number: 87925 |
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A lovely big family box set Osprey Game containing 101 City cards, 20 oversized Borough cards, 32 wooden tokens, 60 cardboard tokens and a Development board. In 1666 the Great Fire had devastated ...
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| LT. COL. EDWARD BARRETT MBE Book Number: 88419 |
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The ceremonial sword is a sign of status and will often be made of precious or rare metals, with a scabbard designed to display intricate craftsmanship and expensive materials. The author has visi...
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| ROBIN ROWLES Book Number: 88420 |
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Based on a history walk devised by the author, this book introduces the reader to little-known alleys, monuments and buildings associated with the Civil War in London. As background he explains th...
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| ALDO BACCHETTA & GLYN RUDD Book Number: 88421 |
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Third in a series of photographic histories of the Rhondda, this revealing volume focuses on Porth and the Rhondda Fach from Ynishir to Maerdy. Chapel life is central to the culture of South Wales...
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| DANIEL MACCANNELL Book Number: 88465 |
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Oxford, a renowned cultural, political and social centre of the country, is made immortal in these beautiful pages. The city has often required maps to defend it from numerous events: rampaging Rou...
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| GEORGE BRADSHAW Book Number: 88277 |
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Popularised by Michael Portillo and the TV series Great British Railway Journeys, Bradshaw's handbook was an indispensable guide for the Victorian traveller. This attractive facsimile covers the w...
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| ROBIN BEXTOR Book Number: 88753 |
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Practical, egalitarian, efficient, popular, logical, organised and yet infuriating, the London Underground stands for everything modern life does in the capital city of London. For most Londoners ...
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| JOHN HIGGS Book Number: 88863 |
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Sub-titled 'Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past', the ancient Watling Street winds its way from the White Cliffs of Dover to the Druid groves of Anglesey. It has gone by many names a...
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| HUBERT PRAGNELL Book Number: 88893 |
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Beautifully illustrated with line art and dozens of full page colour photographs, this handy sized National Trust publication is armed with the basics. Revised, updated and expanded, it is both a ...
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