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Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors: a Guide for Family Historians
Scotland's history has been influenced by many factors the division between the Highlands and the Lowlands, the feudal system, the Reformation, the Industrial revolution that have shaped the country's past...
The Torch is Lit: a Life of Harold George Steele
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The book titled The Torch is Lit: a Life of Harold George Steele by the author David Morgan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
How to Trace Your English Ancestors
The book titled How to Trace Your English Ancestors by the author Janet Reakes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Abandoned Places: 60 stories of places where time stopped
Ghost towns, empty streets, crumbling ruins and lost empires this book reveals these and other deserted places. Many places featured were once populated and now sit unoccupied, modern day ruins,...
Engineer to Marvellous Melbourne: The Life and Times of William
William Thwaites engineered the Melbourne sewerage system with meticulous and untiring attention. He overcame technical challenges with such efficiency and foresight that the scheme served Melburnians unchanged for the next...
Wilfrid Blunt's Egyptian Garden: Fox Hunting in Cairo
In the days of Empire, the British way of life was carried on with a blithe disregard for local peculiarities and this went hand in hand with a sometimes benevolent,...
Poisonous Lies: The Croydon Arsenic Mystery: Great Unsolved Murders of
In suburban Croydon over a period of ten months during 1928-9, three members of the same family died suddenly. A complex police investigation followed, but no charges were ever brought...
Journey Through a Small Planet
First time in Modern Classics for Litvinoff's evocation of his Jewish childhood in the East End In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class...
Animal Family Match: A Matching Game
MATCHING GAME FOR NATURE LOVERS - a more challenging take on the traditional pair-based matching game. SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS - gameplay options designed to suit children, families and...
Great Australian Outback Yarns: Volume 1
A collection of the funniest yarns and most colourful characters from the bestselling 'Great Australian Stories' series from beloved storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh. When he'd finished playing, a solemn silence...
Historic Pub Crawls Through London, Vol. 2: 11 Guided Walks Around
After spontaneously hosting a birthday pub crawl through London's finest alehouses, Thomas J. Vosper was inundated with requests from friends and family to make it a regular occurrence. And so,...
A Century of Newport: Events, People & Place over the 20th Century
This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Newport during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living...
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story
A gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its care - the author's own mother. 'Page-turning and profoundly...
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and...
The Midland Hotel: Morecambe's White Hope
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On a sunny afternoon in July 1933, a remarkable building opened its doors to the public for the first time. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company had taken the...
Voices from the Confederacy: True Civil War Stories from the Men and
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Read about the Civil War from those who were there. They say history is written by the victors. In the case of the Civil War, that's largely true. But historian...
Unsettled Past, Unsettled Future: The Story of Maine Indians
The headlines have been full of controversy over casinos, racinos, land claims settlements, and sovereign rights for Native Americans in Maine-and it's likely that we'll be talking about these complex...
Guinness: A Family Succession: The True Story of the Struggle to
The head of the Guinness family tells the true story of how his ancestors created the largest brewery in the world. In this narrative non-fiction book, Arthur Edward Guinness, the...
Washington, D.C. Then and Now (Then and Now)
Washington, D.C. Then and Now presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution and history of America's capital city, from the dawn of photography in the mid-nineteenth century through to the...
Last Truck Out
WWII 1942-Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and...
The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape
'Remarkable.' THE TIMES 'Wonderful.' GUARDIAN 'Fascinating.' TELEGRAPH 'As a portrait of a place, it's hard to better.' COUNTRY LIFE 'A thrill akin to discovering buried treasure.' RICHARD MABEY 'Humane, humorous...
A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to 1990s
Chosen as one of the Best Architecture and Design books Summer 2022 by the Financial Times. Why British record store carrier bags are graphic design icons: While they've never carried...
Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC
Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue dog #SophiefromRomania comes a moving memoir in search of the...
1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
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Originally a self-published sensation by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, 1 Dead in Attic captures the heart and soul of New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. 1 Dead...
Himmler's Curtains: A Memoir of Loss and Concealment
A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the Holocaust. For the first eighteen years of Simon Weisz's...
A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the
Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People's Book Prize A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024 An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book The captivating true...
After Light: A History of Adelaide and Its City Council 1878-1928
The book titled After Light: A History of Adelaide and Its City Council 1878-1928 by the author Peter Morton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Landscape of the Cotswolds: An Evocative View in Words and Pictures
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Trafalgar Square: A Visual History of London's Landmark Through Time
Although Trafalgar Square, with its column and famous lions and fountains, provides an iconic image of London today, it was not until 1830 that the Square acquired its name, and...
Northumbria
This is a collection of outstanding photogra phs which reveals the natural beauty of Northumbria, one of the last unspoilt areas of Britain. '
I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
"Reading Nick Corasaniti's delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories." - Rolling...
The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in
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"A marvelous, compelling tale"( Rocky Mountain News ) from the New York Times bestselling author of Salt and Cod . Gloucester, Massachusetts, America's oldest fishing port, is defined by the...
Whale Hunt
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A gloriously idiosyncratic fusion of travelogue, ecology, history, moral controversy, and high-seas adventure from the acclaimed author of The Meadowlands. In the fall of 1997, Robert Sullivan arrived in Neah...
Hatfield Peverel in Old Picture Postcards: v. 2
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Football: Those Were the Days
An amusing step back in time to when football was a much simpler game In the good old days of association football there was no such thing as WAGs, the...
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and
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A New York Times Notable Book A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City's transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city's future. Dangerous, filthy,...
Literary Landscapes: New York: A book-lover's tour of the city that
A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors' neighbourhoods in the Big Apple. Literary Landscapes: New York is the follow-up to Literary Landscapes: Paris and contains...
Literary Landscapes: Dublin: Explore the city's vibrant legacy, where
A bibliophile's journey through Dublin's rich heritage, storied lore, and lively craic: exploring bookshops, museums, and authors' watering holes, offering an experience for literature students, Irish natives, and tourists alike....
The Iron Bridge: Symbol of the Industrial Revolution
The first bridge ever to be built of iron, in 1779, is perhaps the most important industrial monument in Britain. The bridge changed the pattern of communications in its area,...
The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre
Guardian columnist Madeleine Bunting is one of the most high-profile left-wing commentators in Britain. But her father was deeply conservative, with romantic, old-fashioned views about England. A complex man, he...
Mysterious Britain
Throughout the length and breadth of Britain, ancient tribes, druids, Celtic saints, medieval knights, and eighteenth-century landowners have bequeathed future generations a wealth of extraordinary sights, structures, and landmarks. Homer...
The Ordnance Survey Journey Through Time: From the Sunday Times
Join the nation's favourite puzzle brand as we take a journey through landscape and history. In this brand new puzzle book in the bestselling Ordnance Survery series, take a trip...
The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced
From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour, and organized...