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Takes a fresh look at the county, with over 60 colour illustrations by Bill Meadows and text by David Green, former editor of "Warwickshire Life".Book InformationISBN 9781853065378Author Bill MeadowsFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904396895Author Susan PeterkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Logaston PressWeight(grams) 190g

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Originating from discussions about the reasons for, and regional variations behind, the remarkable rise in cohabitation that started in the 1970s - a rise that continues to this day - this book explores the main stimuli behind cohabitation. The variation...

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This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.Book InformationISBN...

This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954292805Author Patrick J. GoodlandFormat PaperbackWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953890309Author Siobhan LincolnFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Weight(grams) 130g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953882205Author Paul StallardFormat HardbackPage Count 128Weight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953851102Author Adolphe Geo. JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 180Weight(grams) 125g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948265976Author James BelseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Redcliffe Press LtdPublisher Redcliffe Press Ltd

The wide ranging content is laid out in an informative newspaper-style and covers subjects including sporting records, exploration, film and enterainment, music and literature, fashion, scientific achievements, politics, inventions, quotations,...

The city of Ely sits resplendant above the vast surrounding fenland, dominating the scene with its eleventh-century cathedral. The city dates back to medieval days, yet today is as noteworthy for its evidence of the constant and dramatic speed of change...

10, 000 names of the history-makers * 50 lists, from the Roman Govenors of Britain to the Prime Ministers of New Zealand, and from the First Lords of the Admiralty to the Nobel prizewinners * 19 maps, covering periods, movements and events from the Roman...

The author examines a set of relationships which illustrate just how dangerous life was in the court of the Tudor lion, Henry VIII. Wilson tells the interlocking stories of six men (all, curiously, named Thomas) whose ambitions and principles brought...

Vermeer, Goya, Rembrant, Rubens - the Beit art collection was worth millions. For twenty-two years, Sir Alfred and Lady Beit lived peacefully at Russborough, the remote stately home near the Wicklow Mountains that housed their glorious paintings. Then,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345323576Author Philip CaputoFormat PaperbackImprint Ballantine BooksPublisher Ballantine BooksWeight(grams) 186g

A definitive edition of this ground-breaking, classic American industrial and feminist novel. As well as the complete text of the novel, the volume includes a range of primary documents on the themes of work and class, art and industry, social reform and...

An illuminating examination of the careers of the six Thomases, whose lives are described in parallel- their family and social origins, their pathways to the royal council chamber, their occupancy of the seige perilous, and the tragedies which, one by...

By the end of the nineteenth century, almost all the great writers, artists and intellectuals had abandoned Christianity, and many had abandoned belief in God altogether. A.N. Wilson demonstrates through such diverse lives as those of Gibbon, Kant, and...

Allen Stouffer's analysis of Ontario's response to the freedmen reveals a virulent strain of racism that helps to explain why British North Americans were slow to join their British and American counterparts in the North Atlantic antislavery triangle...

In this compelling portrait of interracial activism, Mark A. Lause documents the efforts of radical followers of John Brown to construct a triracial portion of the Federal Army of the Frontier. Mobilized and inspired by the idea of a Union that would...

Few books have captured the atmosphere of daily medieval life as well or as movingly as "A Fool and his Money". Rodez, in southern France, was divided for centuries by a fued between two masters. This partitioned town thus acquired two distinct...

"This collection belongs on the shelf of anyone teaching American labor history, but it also should prove useful to scholars with related interests." -- Illinois Historical JournalBook InformationISBN 9780252015465Author Samuel GompersFormat...

Moving Subjects is the first of its kind to make a case not simply for the necessity of a spatial analysis of imperial formations, but for the indispensability of an investigative approach that links space and movement with the domain of the intimate...

The National Barn Dance was the nation's most popular country music radio show during the 1930s and 1940s, essentially defining country and western entertainment until it was supplanted by the Grand Ole Opry and rock 'n' roll in the 1950s. Broadcast for...

Madison Square Garden...the Garden...that marvellous New York arena that has seen Pavarotti, Sinatra and Streisand, Elvis, Elton John and The Rolling Stones all hold centre stage; an arena that has hosted the very best in ice hockey and basketball,...

The term battleaxe has been used since 1910 when it implied a closely defined type: elderly, resentful, vociferous and certainly no beauty. Here Christine Hamilton presents a banquet of belligerent British belles who, for one reason or another, exude the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841140049Author John BartonFormat PaperbackImprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953940004Author Jacqueline Anne HiscockFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Weight(grams) 156g

With a light-hearted approach, local author and journalist, Richard Whitmore, takes a trip down the garden and records for future generations the history of privies in Hertfordshire, and what it was like to use them in all weathers. This work is fully...

A collection of local stories about the heroic deeds and achievements of the people of Norfolk including the clergyman James Adams, Thomas Paine, Edith Cavell, Harriet Martineau and the singing postman, Allan Smethurst.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526642639Format HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 153g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913213008Author Helen LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Camden History SocietyPublisher Camden History Society

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948975417Author Kirsten ElliottFormat PaperbackImprint Millstream BooksPublisher Millstream BooksWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946159499Author Jack JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press

Presents an illustrated collection of Lillian Candlin's favourite tales, offering a blend of humour, romance, excitement, and wickedness.Book InformationISBN 9780905392455Author Lillian CandlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Countryside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900463348Format PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint True North Books Ltd.Publisher True North Books Ltd.Weight(grams) 210g