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The book titled Living Stones: St Swithun's Pymble 1901-2001: St Swithun's Pymble by the author Marcia Cameron. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Published here for the first time, this text presents a collection of recently-discovered stories by John Fante.

The Photographic Memories series presents ov er 100 photographs of York and its surrounding areas, carefu lly selected to suit the tourist, local historian or enthusi ast of how things...

Bath is one of only ten World Heritage Sites in England. This book celebrates the uniqueness of the town , describing the colourful characters who are linked to its past...

'All my life I had known there was a secret. What I hadn't known: the secret was me.' In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she...

Opened in 1931 as Yeadon Aerodrome, Leeds-Bradford Airport is the largest in Yorkshire. Regular flights began from the airport in 1935 with a service to Newcastle, Edinburgh and London (Heston)....

Discover all the details you never knew about your mother's life with this beautiful keepsake journal filled with over 100 prompts. A Mother's Life is organized into chapters covering your...

Join local guide Phil Lister on a tour of Haworth's dark and ghostly side: meet the ghost of Room 7 at the Old White Lion, the Grey Lady of Weavers...

On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob...

This wonderful new book by local author Malcolm Hitt and local historian Gary Firth, takes a comparative peep into how Titus Salt's model industrial village has changed since acquiring the...

Mary Cantwell, who has been a writer and editor at Mademoiselle and Vogue and a writer at the New York Times, gives us an elegant and lyrical autobiographical account of...

This unique book raises the curtain on the hidden history of Adelaide's most remarkable playhouse - Her Majesty's Theatre. For one hundred eventful years 'the Maj' has hosted an extraordinarily...

In July 1857 a dairy maid from Craigie in Perthshire sailed from Liverpool in the largest and one of the fastest clipper ships of the time and eighty-three days later...

Find out what your surname means and trace your ancestors who share it too. Perhaps your surname is that of a Norman who came to Britain after the Battle of...

Contains advice on simple ways to run an environmentally-friendly home, based around well known, and not so well known, sayings. This title presents a collection of traditional wisdom that shares...

Gateshead, April 1866. Five-year-old Sarah Melvin was walking along Split Crow Lane looking for her father when she disappeared. Later that night a couple walking home from the pub tripped...

The pursuit of ancestors is a hobby that has grown in recent years and this book aims to help those with British connections who want to find out about their...

This is a truly classic Australian story that captures part of our history that is vanishing. Tom was the mailman on one of the best known and loneliest tracks in...

Everything about the conception and creation of Rockefeller Center was outsized and wildly improbable. Launched in the teeth of the worst depression in American history, the most ambitious construction project...

A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in...

With over 200 postcards and family snapshots, the author taps a vein of nostalgia for the past of Barry and the surrounding area. This collection is a series of old...

At the end of World War II, the nation's railroads were eager to replace their abundance of war-weary steam locomotives with sleek new diesel engines. From Cape May to Bayonne,...

The first full account of a major disaster deliberately concealed during the Allied preparation for D-Day. Operation Tiger on Slapton Sands was one of the giant military exercises off the...

The history of the Victorian Perioperative Nurses Group over the first fifty years has demonstrated the Group's commitment to the education of perioperative nurses and the development of the professional...

This book presents a light-hearted look at Dorset's loos of yesteryear with local anecdotes and photographs of those buildings still standing. It is fully illustrated.

Join Hunter Davies on a celebratory stroll around London's greatest glories - its parks. We need our parks more than ever before , for our health and spirits, our bodies...

The 240 pictures in this fascinating collection, ranging from the earliest available photographs of the 1860s to those of our own times, give an entirely new insight into the history...

The definitive handbook for anyone interested in tracing their family's past. Firmly practical in its approach, yet entertaining in its style, this reference guide is the indispensable companion for all...

This series offers reprints of the first edition of the one-inch Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales, dating from 1805 to 1900. Detail includes villages, hamlets, farms, county boundaries,...

IN 2000, well-known Crewe photographer Gordon Davies spent many hundreds of hours trawling through his extensive picture archive to produce his first book Memory Lane Crewe. He followed this up...