Great Britain & Maps, topography and geography of the British Isles and coastine, walking tours and oddly British curiosities.
KEVIN TELFER Book Number: 81065 |
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On 8th May 1945 Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister, announced to waiting crowds that the Allies had accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany and that the War in Europe was over. For...
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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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CHRISTOPHER SOMERVILLE Book Number: 81340 |
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Tall, elegant hardback, slim enough to fit into the walker's pocket, with beautiful line drawn maps for meandering through Salcey Forest in Northamptonshire towards Buckinghamshire, St. David's Hea...
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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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TESSA GIRVAN Book Number: 82483 |
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School holidays are a great time for days out, but kids sometimes start yawning before they even set off. This guide book for kids covers the whole of England and unerringly identifies the cool stu...
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DUKE MARKETING Book Number: 82761 |
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Using advance high-definition cameras, this stunning aerial photography film offers unrivalled views from the Ancient Celtic settlements to modern suburbia. With narration from Richard Mervyn thro...
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DISCOVER BRITAIN Book Number: 82771 |
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50 minute colour film which is a perfect guide and insight into Derbyshire's most popular attractions. Visit famous buildings of historic interest with their magnificent gardens and a selection of...
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JOHN CASSY & BARBARA GIBBON Book Number: 82857 |
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The beautiful 17th century Jacobean house in East Sussex was Rudyard Kipling's family home from 1902 to 1936. The interior reflects the author's strong associations with the East and many of the o...
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THE NATIONAL TRUST Book Number: 82858 |
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A Baroque mansion situated near Derby, Calke Abbey's construction began in 1701. Set in a stunning landscaped park, it has become famous as a graphic illustration of the English country house in d...
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Unknown Book Number: 82859 |
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This famed house in remotest Devon was built by a celebrity architect for a rich tycoon, Sir Julius Drewe, owner of the Army & Navy stores chain. Castle Drogo was never truly finished, yet success...
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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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MIKE OSBORNE Book Number: 83898 |
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London, the capital of the country and a tapestry of Britain's history, is adorned with features of our past spread across the skyline and streets. A prominent feature of our city's historical land...
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JÜRGEN SORGES Book Number: 83928 |
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Quaint cottages with rose bedecked walls, old stone-built pubs, ancient buttressed abbeys, ruined Franciscan priories, strange rock formations and tree-lined lanes - all sights we can still see tod...
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EDITED BY DAVID DAICHES Book Number: 84288 |
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Life, customs and morals, bookselling, Tartan pageantry, to the Edinburgh Festival 1947 as observed by Eric Linklater, here are extracts from diaries, letters, memoirs and novels, biographies from ...
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MR JAMES MOORE & MR PAUL NERO Book Number: 84414 |
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Sub-titled 'A Tudor Traveller's Guide To The Nation's Finest Taverns', the discerning traveller is guided to which establishments to seek out and which to avoid like the plague itself. How can the...
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ROB TEMPLE Book Number: 84562 |
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2017 up-to-date edition of our very British quirks and obsessions as collected on the @soverybritish Twitter account, Facebook page and Instagram feed which have a combined following of almost thre...
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ROB TEMPLE Book Number: 84888 |
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Our first sighting of the highly contagious condition known as 'Very British Problems' was published in 2013, examining the many strange and complicated symptoms demonstrated by the British within ...
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GRAHAM ROBB Book Number: 85026 |
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Sub-titled 'Mapping the Lost World of the Celts'. Step aside Tolkein because the real Middle Earth is explained in this treasure hunt of a book. This is an intelligent exploration of the world thr...
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BRONWEN RILEY Book Number: 85027 |
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The distance from the imperial city of Rome to the military garrison of Corbridge on Hadrian's Wall is just under 1500 miles. What was it like to make the journey in, say, 130 AD? The author takes...
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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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AA Book Number: 85059 |
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A useful touring companion that explains how to discover Britain 'on foot, by bike, by horse, by balloon, by barge or boat, by car, by train from coast to coast.' In other words, it is full of idea...
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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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DAVID LONG Book Number: 85504 |
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Sub-titled 'In the Steps of the Capital's Killers', from the Ratcliffe highway murders to the siege of Sidney Street via the Kray twins and Dr Crippen, we find out what drove Joe Meek, pop's space ...
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LUCINDA HAWKSLEY Book Number: 85564 |
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What was it like to be alive in the time of Queen Victoria? What did you eat, do in your leisure time and wear when you were pregnant? This fascinating book covers the arts, the Empire, politics, c...
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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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ANNE LOUISE AVERY Book Number: 85693 |
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The otherworldly pictorial maps collected in these four volumes were created by the engraver William Hole (d.1624) to illustrate a vast 15,000 line landscape poem Poly-Olbion by Michael Drayton (15...
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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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