Historical

Lying in the heart of England, Oxfordshire is justly famous for its historic university, but the county also boasts many beautiful natural features and a fascinating historic legacy. The landscape ranges from the Chiltern and Cotswold Hills, the Wessex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339291Author Bernard ByromFormat PaperbackImprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The Dorset town of Shaftesbury is beautifully sited on a hill overlooking the Blackmore Vale, on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The town grew up around its abbey, which was founded in c. 888 by King Alfred and became one of the richest religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853615521Author Andrew HajduckiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 209mm * 147mm * 15mm

Ripon History Tour offers a fascinating insight into the history of this city in Yorkshire. Author Maurice Taylor guides us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they have changed over the...

The Anglo-Saxon town of Preston, whose name comes from the Old English for 'priest settlement', boasts evidence of even earlier Roman activity, such as the Roman road that led to Walton-le-Dale. Once home to a booming centuries-old cotton manufacturing...

The Staffordshire market town of Newcastle-under-Lyme owes its existence and its name to the building of a new castle there in the twelfth century. The town's status grew from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, with industries and trades including...

Lymington has long been in need of an illustrated history worthy of its past. From a Saxon settlement onwards as an internationally famous yachting centre, Jude James and Roland Stott present a beautiful and unique historical journey. This comparative...

A collection of over 250 photographs sourced from the archives of the National Trust's historic properties depicting life in Britain's country homes and estates. An intriguing look at the life that was led in the country homes and estates now...

Opened on 17 July 1761, the canal has a special place in history as the first to be built in Britain without following an existing watercourse, and so became a model for those that followed. Affectionately known as the 'Duke's Cut', the Bridgewater Canal...

Newark Through Time offers a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exciting examination of Newark, the famous streets and the famous faces and what they meant to the people of this...

Local history of East Belfast.Book InformationISBN 9781845887780Author Keith HainesFormat PaperbackImprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The History Press Ltd

New Malden is situated between the much better known Kingston and Wimbledon. Its history is fairly recent and came about because The London & South Western Railway Company sited a station halfway between the wealthy residents of Coombe and the small...

The Manor of Northam dates back to the Norman invasion and is well recorded in the Domesday Book, being part of lands owned by a Saxon Lord called Bristric, and this appears to be the first recorded evidence of what was in the area. There is evidence of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840335262Author Francis CzuchaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 272mm * 211mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336191Author Marie PanterFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911311Author Raymond AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Plymouth has a long and varied history with strong connections to England's most famous mariners including Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir John Hawkins. In 1588 Drake famously continued his game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe as the Spanish...

Tossed by the tides, feted by the fashionable, murdered by the marshes... Who could have guessed that a huddle of shacks outside the gates of a deer park would become a premier port and modish resort traversed by world-famous prodigies like Handel and...

Bristol City Docks Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exciting examination of Bristol's docks, and what they meant to the people of this area throughout the...

As the county town of Essex since the thirteenth century, Chelmsford was the original site of the local assize, and is today a bustling market town. Chelmsford's history is omnipresent; the city boasts a magnificent fifteenth-century cathedral, and its...

Secret Newark goes behind the facades of the familiar to discover the lesser-known aspects of the town's fascinating past. Situated on the important old Roman road, the Fosse Way, the ancestral market town grew around the, now ruined, Newark Castle and...

The London & Birmingham Railway was the major project of its day, designed by Robert Stephenson, one of the great railway pioneers, who also supervised its construction and its opening in 1837. Camden Goods Station became the goods terminus and Euston...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334791Author John Fyfe AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 135gDimensions(mm)...

A stunning visual journey through Cambodian culture, history, art, struggle, and modernization.Cambodia has two parallel histories. One is the constant stream of adventurers and diplomats, kings and rebels, archaeologists and artists drawn to the...

Newquay is a major tourist destination for holidaymakers located on the north coast of Cornwall. However, it is much more than a simple seaside resort. Evidence of Late Mesolithic flint tool working sites show early occupation, and there has been a small...

Rathmines lies on the south bank of the Grand Canal, stretching out as far as Rathgar and bordered on two sides by Ranelagh to the east and Harold's Cross to the west. It is one of the country's most well-known suburbs, home to heads of government, vast...

Coventry remembers the night of the Blitz, when many people lost their lives, lovely old buildings were destroyed, and the magnificent St Michael's, Coventry's cathedral, was burnt to the ground. Jacqueline Cameron shows, through old and new photographs,...

It was in 1841 that the London & Brighton Railway constructed the line from Norwood (linking with the London & Croydon Railway) to the coast. The lines built between 1841 and 1868 formed a comprehensive countywide network, extending from Three Bridges to...

Famous for its coastal playgrounds and rural retreats, Sussex is a county filled with natural appeal and is just an hour from the City of London. With a timeline dating back to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex and beyond, this south-eastern county is full...

Beneath the surface of the Potteries lies a little-known world that encompasses the history of the six towns that historically make up this area - Stoke, Burslem, Hanley, Fenton, Tunstall and Longton and the conurbation in North Staffordshire that has...

THIS fascinating collection of around 200 old photographs of Ramsbottom and the surrounding villages has been drawn from the extensive archives of the Ramsbottom Heritage Society. The book shows the town through a century of change. Although many of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957044753Author Andrew WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Unity Print and Publishing LtdPublisher Unity Print and Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Dunfermline over the past century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader a...

Warrington is a town with a long history and a future shaped by its designation as a New Town in 1968. Over the last half century, the landscape and lives of its inhabitants have changed dramatically. Older residents of the former Lancashire industrial...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336009Author Guthrie HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814610131Author Brenda YeohFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Editions Didier MilletPublisher Editions Didier MilletWeight(grams) 1175g

This book is part of the Images of London series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752400495Author Dorcas...

Taunton is the largest town in the county of Somerset and boasts a rich and fascinating history that can be archaeologically traced back to the Bronze and Iron Ages. The Saxons and Normans, events such as the English Civil War and Monmouth Rebellion, the...