Local and family history, nostalgia Books
Amberley Publishing Secret Dartmouth
Book SynopsisSecret Dartmouth explores the lesser-known history of the town of Dartmouth in Devon through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Secret Fens
Book SynopsisSecret Fens explores the lesser-known history of the Fens in the East of England through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Secret Warrington
Book SynopsisDiscover the lesser-known heritage of the town of Warrington from across the centuries in this illustrated book.Trade Review'Packed with pictures and stories and tales from the past, it provides a fascinating glimpse into some of the town's little known history.' -- Warrington Guardian, August 2023
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Celebrating St Andrews
Book SynopsisA celebration of St Andrewâs rich heritage and identity â its special events, achievements, people, industry and landmarks.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Churches of Hampshire
Book SynopsisA fascinating exploration of Hampshireâs historic churches. Together with their rich memorials and furnishings there is something for everyone.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Illustrated Tales of Wiltshire
Book SynopsisThe beautiful county of Wiltshire is one of the most popular of English counties. Here is a collection of strange tales and local legends from the county.Trade Review'Book is beautifully illustrated, adding a whimsical yet eerie touch to the stories about witches, aliens and the unknown.' -- Spooky Isles, October 2023
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Secret Tewkesbury
Book SynopsisSecret Tewkesbury explores the lesser-known history of the town of Tewkesbury through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.Trade Review'A fascinating look at Tewkesbury.' -- West Country Life Magazine, October 2023
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Cranborne Chase
Book SynopsisNew format paperback edition - A photographic journey through Cranborne Chase, one of the Southâs most historic and atmospheric landscapes.Trade Review'Hidden gems of the Cranborne Chase AONB are beautifully captured by photographers Roger Lane and the late Roger Holman.' -- Dorset Life Magazine'The pair are well-known for their stunning landscape photographs and these, together with Roger Lane's informative text, make this book a must-read for anyone with a love of the picturesque Cranborne Chase.' -- Blackmore Vale Magazine
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Cork A Potted History
Book SynopsisAn accessible history of Cork from its beginnings to the present day, following a walking trail highlighting the cityâs significant events and people.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing AZ of Kew and Brentford
Book SynopsisExplore the West London towns of Kew and Brentford in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to their history, people and places.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing AZ of Whitechapel
Book SynopsisExplore the East London district of Whitechapel in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Illustrated Tales of Devon
Book SynopsisThe beautiful county of Devon is one of the most popular of English counties. Here is a collection of strange tales and local legends from the county.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Going Underground Wakefield
Book SynopsisA fascinating exploration of the underground world and its history beneath the surface of Wakefield.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Celebrating Horsham
Book SynopsisA celebration of Horshamâs rich heritage and identity â its special events, achievements, people, industry and landmarks.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Lost Preston
Book SynopsisFully illustrated description of Prestonâs well known, and lesser known, places that have been lost over the years.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Norwich A Potted History
Book SynopsisAn accessible history of Norwich from its beginnings to the present day highlighting the cityâs significant events and people.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Formby A Potted History
Book SynopsisAn accessible history of Formby from its beginnings to the present day highlighting the townâs significant events and people.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Illustrated Tales of Jersey
Book SynopsisThe beautiful island of Jersey is one of the most popular of destinations. Here is a collection of strange tales and local legends from the island country.
£14.39
Hachette Books Ireland The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park
Book SynopsisThe Phoenix Park in Dublin holds a special place in the collective memory of Irish people. From the assassinations of 1882 and the destruction of several imperial monuments, to the arrival of Douglas Hyde as Ireland''s first president and Pope John Paul''s 1979 visit, it has been at the centre of Irish society for centuries.But the park is also part and parcel of daily life for many Dubliners - none more so than the Flanagan family, who have been lighting the gas lamps within its walls since 1890.Here, historian Donal Fallon speaks to brothers Frank and James Flanagan, lamplighters of the park, to give us a snapshot of a fading tradition, and a unique history of one of Ireland''s most beloved places.With stunning photographs, historical events and personal stories, The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park shines a light on the park at the centre of our national identity, through the prism of this singular family, whose histories have been intertwineTrade ReviewThe Flanagan family, celebrated in this beautifully produced, illustrated book, have had a connection to the park that goes back generations * Sunday Independent *A most interesting story, expertly told and with very fine illustrations * Irish Times *This handsome publication is both homage and history, as it chronicles Ireland's most famous public space, the Phoenix Park in Dublin * RTÉ Guide *thoroughly researched but also conversational and full of tangents ... Fallon's obvious expertise makes him an engaging and authoritative tour guide * Sunday Business Post *
£19.54
Amberley Publishing Blackpool Tower A History
Book SynopsisThe true story of Victorian entrepreneurship that led to the construction of one of Britain's most recognisable landscapes.
£17.09
Amberley Publishing Secret BexhillonSea
Book SynopsisSecret Bexhill-on-Sea explores the little-known and often colourful history of the East Sussex town of Bexhill-on-Sea through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing More Yorkshire in Photographs
Book SynopsisThis unique collection of photographs immediately shows why Yorkshire is one of Britainâs best-loved destinations.
£17.09
Amberley Publishing 50 Gems of Suffolk
Book SynopsisThis beautifully photographed selection of fifty of the county's most precious assets shows what makes Suffolk great.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Secret Rotherham
Book SynopsisExplore Rotherham's secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing 50 Gems of East Kent
Book SynopsisThis beautifully photographed selection of fifty of the region's most precious assets shows what makes East Kent such a popular destination.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing 50 Gems of Dorset
Book SynopsisThis beautifully photographed selection of fifty of the county's most precious assets shows what makes Dorset such a popular destination.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Illustrated Tales of Sussex
Book SynopsisLocal author and historian Christopher Horlock brings together a fascinating photographic collection of bizarre and off-beat tales from the county of Sussex.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing 50 Gems of North Devon
Book SynopsisThis beautifully photographed selection of fifty of North Devonâs most precious assets shows what makes it such a popular destination.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Illustrated Tales of Yorkshire
Book SynopsisThe beautiful county of Yorkshire is one of the most visited of English counties. Here is a collection of strange tales and local legends from the county.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Secret Cromer and Sheringham
Book SynopsisSecret Cromer and Sheringham explores the lesser-known history of the Norfolk coastal towns of Cromer and Sheringham through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing AZ of Stockport
Book SynopsisExplore the Greater Manchester town of Stockport in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Lost Nottingham
Book SynopsisFully illustrated description of Nottinghamâs well known, and lesser known, places that have been lost over the years.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Secret Ealing
Book SynopsisSecret Ealing explores the lesser-known history of the West London borough of Ealing through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing AZ of Plymouth
Book SynopsisAn engaging journey through the Devon port city of Plymouth highlighting its heritage, people and places from across the centuries.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Illustrated Tales of Wales
Book SynopsisDiscover some surprising, intriguing and curious stories, myths and legends from Wales ranging from the quirky to the macabre.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Secret Truro
Book SynopsisSecret Truro explores the lesser-known history of the Cornish city of Truro through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.
£14.39
Four Courts Press Ltd Mary Mercers Dublin legacy 17242024
Book SynopsisThis book details the various charitable endeavours of Mary Mercer, from her shelter for orphaned girls (built in 1724), to the later voluntary hospital and her school in Rathcoole, which subsequently merged with the King? s Hospital School. Such charitable deeds were supported by imaginative fundraising and donations from wealthy patrons, and are commemorated to this very day by the several buildings and places in Dublin that still bear her name.
£11.95
Quiller Publishing Ltd The Forgotten Country House: The Rise and Fall of
Book SynopsisThis fine Palladian house known as New Park was built between 1777 and 1783 and became part of the golden age of the Georgian country house. Its owner, James Sutton, was one of a new breed of landowners, benefitting from the proceeds of the boom in late eighteenth century trade and from local political influence. The house was a celebration of the dynamism and success of Georgian Devizes, built on its thriving wool trade. As neoclassicism became the defining style for the late eighteenth English country house, New Park, later re-named Roundway Park, perfectly represented the high ambition of the age, the product of the prestigious architect, James Wyatt, and landscape designer, Humphry Repton. Roundway continued to prosper in the Victorian and Edwardian eras under the ownership of the Colston family of Bristol fame. In 1938, on the death of Rosalind Colston, the first Lady Roundway, the house and estate were, on the surface, indistinguishable from their Victorian heyday. But just sixteen years later, the estate had been sold and the house largely demolished as the effects of family tragedy and the weight of social and economic change took their toll. The Forgotten Country House tells for the first time the story of Roundway's rise and fall, the people who built and owned it, lived and worked there, and the contribution they made to their local community. It paints a vivid picture of the lives of gentry families who far outnumbered their more aristocratic counterparts and who played a central role in the rural communities that characterised much of Britain up until the mid-twentieth century. Part family history, part love letter to the English country house, Simon Baynes draws on family papers and new research to pay a fitting, evocative tribute not just to his ancestors, but also to a lost world and the people who lived in it.Trade ReviewHistories of lost country houses involve sophisticated detective work. Simon Baynes’ new book is impressive for its wide ranging research and his absorbing text illustrates just how many stories these houses have to tell. -- Marcus BinneyThe Forgotten Country House is a fascinating history of a colourful family and a remarkable building told with passion and authority. -- Simon ThurleyThis book is a comprehensive record of a notable country house in Wiltshire. Many long lost photographs and personal family details have been documented under one cover by Simon Baynes and his late father to create this excellent publication. -- John GirvanThis handsomely produced volume recounts the history of Roundway Park in Wiltshire, a now mostly demolished Georgian mansion... Part house, part family history, the final decades at Roundway are tinged with sadness... [The] book is a fitting tribute to the house and estate that it commemorates. -- Historic HousesQuiller Publishing has once again done an excellent job in presenting this enthralling photographic and literary exposition which has been researched thoroughly by author Simon Baynes... Highly recommended, especially for those interested in English social and cultural history, Georgian architecture and Wiltshire history. -- Gary Creighton * British Country Sports *You can read this book like a novel, from cover to cover, or dip into it like a coffee table book, drawn in by its mix of beautiful illustrations and photographs... The Forgotten Country House is a delight. As the book jacket says, it is 'part family history, part love letter to the English country house.' It succeeds brilliantly at both. -- David Ross * Britain Express *Table of ContentsPreface PART 1: RISE 1 The High Summer of Georgian Devizes 2 James Wyatt and Humphry Repton at New Park 3 The Suttons, Addingtons and Estcourts 4 The Colstons: Honeymoon and Grand Tour 5 The Colstons at Roundway Park 6 Lives Cut Short 7 Love and Marriage 8 Family Life PART 2: HEYDAY 9 Roundway Park’s Victorian Heyday 10 A Day in the Life of Roundway Park 11 Henry Robinson: Butler Extraordinaire 12 The New Century 13 The World at their Feet 14 The Great War PART 3: DECLINE 15 ‘Never Glad Confident Morning Again!’ 16 The Inter-war Years 17 Loyal Service 18 The Beginning of the End 19 Sounding the Last Post 20 The Sale of Roundway Park 21 White Knight EPILOGUE
£22.50
Vertical Editions The Legend: The story of Steve Ward, the world's
Book SynopsisThe Legend is the remarkable autobiography of Steve Ward, the world's oldest ever professional boxer. It details the astonishing obstacles Steve has overcome to become a three-times Guinness World Record holder after taking up the sport he loves again at the age of 54. Steve's unstinting ambition is driven by a promise made by his late father Bernard, who introduced him to boxing and told allcomers his son would be a world champion. His story is an inspiration to anyone who has hit hard times and proof of the old adage that all things are possible. A very serious foot injury sustained in a freak accident at work eventually led to Steve planning to kill himself before he bounced back to confound the medical profession and achieve his dream of winning a world title in his very last fight, at 64 years of age.
£10.79
Fircone Books Ltd Ethelbert - King & Martyr: Hereford's Patron
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£8.58
Fircone Books Ltd A Child of Ross
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£7.99
Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd Are We Home Yet?
Book SynopsisSpanning the years from 1935 to 2010, Are We Home Yet? is the moving and funny story of a girl and her mother. As a girl, Katy accidentally discovers her mother is earning money as a sex worker at the family home, rupturing their bond. As an adult, Katy contends with grief and mental health challenges before she and her mother attempt to heal their relationship. From Canada, to Leeds and Jamaica, and exploring shame, immigration and class, the pair share their stories but struggle to understand each other's choices in a fast-changing world. By revealing their truths, can these two strong women call a truce on their hostilities and overcome the oppressive ghosts of the past?Trade ReviewKaty's writing is unflinchingly honest and undeniably authentic. It is also funny, sharp and full of perfectly placed detail. She challenges our preconceptions whilst transporting us right into the middle of a world few of us have had a chance to see this clearly before. * Sharon Duggal, author of The Handsworth Times and Should We Fall Behind *
£8.54
Exbury Gardens Ltd The Eighth Wonder of the World: Exbury Gardens
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£24.00
Amberley Publishing Ludlow History Tour
Book SynopsisA pocket-sized, illustrated history tour around the Shropshire market town of Ludlow showing how it has changed across the centuries.
£8.54
Troubador Publishing Ltd When Kitty Came To London
Book SynopsisIn 1952, Teresa Pyott's father received an inheritance, including a London house, from a woman to whom he was not related. Teresa's parents, hardworking but modestly paid actors, found their lives transformed by this change in their fortunes. Teresa had grown up with stories of Aunt Catherine' Linklater, as she was known in the family, but it was only much later, after her father's death, that she asked herself how this inheritance came about. Was there a long-buried family secret to unravel? What was the connection between the Linklaters and the Pyotts? Did it all begin when Kitty came to London, a little girl,' and, if so, when was that? The search for the truth led Teresa to Orkney, Essex, London, an asylum, elementary schools, and seafarers who voyaged to the Moravian mission settlements in Labrador and across all the world's great oceans. In her quest, she found tragedy and triumph against the odds in family stories spanning a century and found the answer to the question she began with. When Kitty Came to London is a captivating story about family secrets concealed in the past.
£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inventory of a Life Mislaid An Unreliable Memoir
Book SynopsisA luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.Wonderful a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOWInventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman.With diamond rings on her fingers and brogues on her feet, Ilia steps fearlessly into the world of cricket and riding. But, without prospect of work in a bleak, war-ravaged England, Esmond remembers the glorious ease of Cairo during his periods of leave from the desert campaign. There, they start a bookshop, a branch of W. H. Smith's. But growing resistance to foreign interests, especially British, erupts in the 1952 uprising, and the Cairo Fire burns the city clean.Evocative and imaginative, at once historical and speculativTrade Review‘Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination, shimmering with images, sounds and scents, conjuring a clash of lives, worlds and words’Jenny Uglow ‘A captivating re-creation of her childhood in a lost Cairo, so incomparably louche, sensuous and fragrant, and of her parents’ improbable marriage’Ferdinand Mount ‘An entrancing weave of memoir, history, autobiography and fiction, this adventurous book voyages through time and space to re-discover, re-imagine and reinvent a lost world. One of Marina Warner's most beautiful works’Michèle Roberts ‘Moving and original … Warner’s view of the past is always precise, at once generous and exacting. She has a gift for using objects to conjure up characters, feelings and atmospheres … Poignant and exquisitely crafted, Inventory of a Life Mislaid is bound to become a classic’Catriona Seth ‘A poignant and imaginatively transgressive exploration of her parents’ marriage, a war time love match between Southern Italy and upper class England … Evocative’Margaret Drabble ‘High-risk and multidimensional … Warner brings to these pages a lifetime of thinking about stories and the ways in which they shape our lives’Literary Review ‘This is a wonderful rich, partly mythical memoir that sifts through the past to connect a family’s secrets to the deep-rooted colonial assumptions that still resonate in a post-Brexit Britain … never dull … Eloquent and heartbreaking’TLS ‘Poignant and mythical’New Statesman ‘The most intriguing memoir … Marina Warner’s subtle, exotic and angry account of her parents’ marriage’Roy Foster, TLS, Books of the Year ‘Warner is such a skilful and imaginative writer that much of …the book reads like lived experience … the happiest of concoctions, a mix of fiction and fact, observation and speculation …This brave, painful, dazzling memoir is riveting’Spectator
£10.44
Amberley Publishing The Old Ways of Cumbria
Book SynopsisThis unique book explores the history of Cumbria via ten ancient routes that wind through some of the most spectacular parts of the Lake District and the rest of the county.
£14.39
The University of Chicago Press Cartography
Book SynopsisRather than treating maps as a single, unified group, Edney argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption.
£24.70
