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This fascinating selection of historic photographs documents the dramatic transformation that has taken place over the last 150 years in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Love & War in London is rooted in the extraordinary milieu of wartime London. It permits us to understand how one intelligent, imaginative woman struggled to make sense of her life, as the city in which she lived was drawn into the turmoil of a catastrophic war.
Bristol: City on Show is the much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling collection Bath: City on Show. These images are given new richness by more than 100 of the rarest engravings and archive photographs of the city, capturing the bustle of life in the city through the ages.
This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of DURHAM. Small wonders, tall stories, TRIUMPH and tragedy. Best places - worst places. Local lingo, architecture, green spaces, events, traditions, fact, fiction. Written by a local who knows what makes DURHAM tick.
Arranged by region, it covers England, Wales and Normandy, and provides invaluable information for anyone visiting or planning to visit any of the sites connected with the Conquest, as well as anyone interested in the history of this period in general.
When a customer of William Doughty's chemist shop dies of strychnine poisoning after drinking medicine he dispensed, William is blamed, and the family faces ruin. There will be more deaths, and a secret in her own family will be revealed before the killer is unmasked, and Frances will find that her life has changed forever.
The Great Western Railway's Swindon Works was the largest employer in the area, even during the early British Railway years. For well over a hundred years thousands of apprentices and trainees passed through its doors to learn the trades of the railways.
Fact proves far stranger than fiction in this collection of real-life crimes, scandals, tragedies and murders which either influenced the works of the world's most popular mystery writer or affected the lives of many famous personalities involved in her long and brilliant career.
A nostalgic journey into an idyllic childhood in Oxford, after the First World War
The incredible story of these ingenious boats that played havoc with enemy shipping during the Second World War
The Fairey Rotodyne was a large British compound helicopter designed and built by the Fairey Aviation Company and intended for commercial and military applications. This book seeks to fill a gap in aviation literature on the history of the Rotodyne, an aircraft ahead of its time.
The centuries after the end of Roman control of Britain in AD 410 are some of the most vital in Britain's history - yet some of the least understood.
A beautiful tribute to the 'golden age' of canals and those who lived and worked on them
A classic work that must be included in the library of any railway enthusiast
This warm, witty and down-to-earth story of a Yorkshire bandsman will delight music lovers everywhere.
In this new title in the Murder & Crime series author Douglas Huke examines twelve gruesome cases of murder and mayhem to provide a chilling introduction to the darker side of Hull's past
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