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Tracing your Yorkshire ancestors using the internet has never been easier, with literally millions of records available to explore. But with so much material available, it can be difficult to...

The book titled Slate from Coniston: A History of the Coniston Slate Industry by the author A.D. Cameron. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

This second edition is completely up-to-date, and in colour throughout. It covers the best and most interesting buildings completed in London during the period 1984-1998. It is one of the...

Soho, London's most colourful and cosmopolitan district, is being redeveloped, and its long-established residential community is fast disappearing. This account of the area's history uses the unique memories of its...

A captivating tale of witches, women and the will to survive... 'A spellbinding tale...pure witchy perfection' 1600s, The village of Weybourne, Norfolk Brigid Netherwell is accused of witchcraft and condemned...

An unforgettable story, tying together past and present, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris and The Royal Librarian Berlin, 1933. The night skies are burning bright...

In the seventeenth century antiquarianism was a well-respected profession and antiquarian works were in demand, particularly amongst the gentry, who were especially interested in establishing lineage and the descent of...

The book titled Exploring Oxford by the author Michael De-la-Noy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

While the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s resulted in the destruction of much of England's built fabric, it was also a time in which many new initiatives emerged....

The book titled London Before the Blitz by the author Richard Trench. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Nairn's London: Revisited By Peter Gasson by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The West of England: An Artist's Journey through English Landscapes by the author Sydney R. Jones. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

There are over 40,000 churches and chapels in the United Kingdom. The earliest were built by the first Anglo-Saxon Christians and about 10,000 were built before the Reformation in the...

The book titled Change at King's Cross: From 1800 to the Present by the author Michael Hunter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The completion of the Sainsbury Wing by the American architects Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, marks the end of a lengthy architectural debate that has excited interest from both the...

Although London has inherited a complex and comprehensive railway network, there are a large number of l ines which have disappeared. This book examines the history of many of these...

The book titled The Shell Guide to the Gardens of England and Wales by the author Sarah Hollis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The text of this volume comprises the Chichele Lectures of 1986 on the architectural history of All Souls College. Beginning with a discussion of the college's foundation by Archbishop Chichele...

The Lakeland Fells are over 1000 feet high in altitude. This book is an in-depth guide to the most popular walking area of Britain. Dividing the Lake District National Park...

The book titled London's Lost Riverscape by the author Chris Ellmers. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Bath, Queen of the West, is internationally famous as one of England's oldest and most beautiful cities. The picturesque setting in the Avon valley, surrounded by green hills knit town...

The book titled 10 Adventurous Walks in West Kent by the author Raymond Hugh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Provides an account of the great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who described 'his' Great Western Railway as 'England's finest work'. This book explores the legacy of the Victorian railway revolution,...

Gardens of Court and Country provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often overshadowed by the English landscape garden that...

A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and Wales Deep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary...

Holkham Hall is a masterpiece of eighteenth-century Palladian architecture set in a large walled park bordered by the marshes and dunes of the North Norfolk coast. Built, owned and occupied...

An examination of the garden plans of eighteenth-century landscape architect Charles Bridgeman, shedding light on his artistic vision and contributions to English garden history. Charles Bridgeman was a popular and...

When the first edition of "Stonehenge Complete" was published, it won the British Archaeological Book Award. People have puzzled over Stonehenge for centuries: speculating and dreaming about it, drawing and...

This is the essential companion to the architecture of Cambridgeshire, fully revised for the first time in sixty years and featuring superb new photography. Half of the book is devoted...

An expanded and fully revised edition of John Newman's classic survey of the buildings of West Kent, first published in 1969. Here is an extraordinary concentration of architecture of the...

The exceptionally rich architecture of eastern Kent is covered by this fully revised, updated, and expanded edition of John Newman's classic survey, first published in 1969. This city of Canterbury...

Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles I, he is credited with introducing...

The landscapes of Lancashire range from the shores of Morecambe Bay and the wild Forest of Bowland in the north to the coastal flatlands and Pennine mill towns in the...

Essex, one the largest counties of England, stretches from the suburban fringes of East London to the fishing and sailing ports of Harwich and Maldon and the famous seaside resorts...

The book titled The Book of London by the author Michael Leapman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

What do movable dolls' eyes have to do with a Catholic church? Where could you meet Plain Bob Maximus and Surprise Major? Why does just one person know where Oliver...

The story of the migration of the Cornish people throughout the world is an epic. Philip Payton is one of the world's leading scholars of the movement of Cornish people...

Londoners and tourists alike probably wonder about the meaning of such street names as Piccadilly, Pall Mall, Old Bailey, Houndsditch and Crutched Friars. John Wittich explains the origins of these...

The book titled Country London by the author John Talbot White. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

There's an astonishing range of peaceful countryside within easy reach of the city, and this book is the key to it. Londoners longing to escape the city for just a...

In this book, Mark Girouard tells how he became intrigued by architecture as a small boy. Combining anecdote and information about both buildings and their inhabitants, he writes of the...