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This illustrated history portrays one of England's finest cities. It provides a nostalgic look at York's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The photographs are taken from the Historic England...

Intimately linked as twin hubs of the Elizabethan entertainment industry north and south of the Thames, Blackfriars' and Southwark's shared history emerged from opposing forces and ancient geographic personalities. First settled by the Romans, and...

Crewe was just a small settlement in east Cheshire until the arrival of the railways in the nineteenth century. The town was located on an important junction on routes from Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and London. It quickly grew up around the...

Cristina de Middel has been travelling for years with migrants on the train they call “the beast”, interviewing sicarios (hired killers), talking for hours with “coyotes” (clandestine smugglers) and police officers. By combining her own photographs with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761380532Author Nathan MeteFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Scribe PublicationsPublisher Scribe PublicationsWeight(grams) 1250g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467138871Author Kelly MathewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 544g

Evangeline is a photographic exploration of Nova Scotia, Canada, directly inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 epic poem about the historic Expulsion of the Acadians. Today, the proud presence of Acadian heritage on the shores of the Bay of...

The Republic of Texas was founded in 1839, around the time that photography was being invented. So while there were no photographers at the Alamo or San Jacinto, they arrived soon after to immortalize, on film, Sam Houston, David Burnett, Mirabeau Lamar,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789889926632Author Vincent YuFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint MCCM LtdPublisher MCCM LtdWeight(grams) 496g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816523603Author Simon J. OrtizFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 663g

Mira Slovak was born in Czechoslovakia and endured both the Nazi occupation and the brutal Russian liberation. He joined the Czech Air force, rising to Captain by the age of 21. When he could no longer tolerate life under the Communists, he hijacked an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681340944Author John GlantonFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

The significant historical and social differences between these two neighbouring towns are vividly brought into focus by the variation in pubs and other hostelries that have existed, or still exist, in each. Harrogate is a relatively new town which...

The Waverley Route ran from Edinburgh, through the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle. Opening in 1862, the line was closed in 1969 as a result of the Beeching Report; feelings ran so high when it closed that there were protests which delayed the last...

The sixties, seventies and eighties were decades of great change. Many towns and cities were redeveloped with projects that dramatically affected the character of the place. People's shopping habits were altered as supermarkets took over from traditional...

The Lancashire city of Preston has a rich and enthralling history. This book recalls its people, places and past times. Once a booming cotton-manufacturing centre, Preston made great advances in industry and commerce as it transformed from a cotton town...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859372647Author Clive HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd.

Blackpool has seen massive changes in the last 120 years. At the beginning of the twentieth century, it was the leading holiday resort in England, famous for the entertainment on offer, its Illuminations and the Pleasure Beach, which drew millions of...

To Make Their Own Way in the World is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the history of photography: fifteen daguerreotypes of Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty-men and women of African descent who were...

Artificial Intelligence meets Gettysburg. And it is a marvelous pairing.Author Patrick Brennan, a long-time student of the Civil War, published author, and an editorial advisor for The Civil War Monitor magazine, has teamed up with his technology-astute...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780915043Author Bruce PurvisFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Chichester History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous West Sussex town. This is an exciting guided walk around the town, its well-known places and hidden corners, and explains what they meant to local people throughout...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578851181Author Chester HigginsFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint March Forth ImprintPublisher March Forth ImprintWeight(grams) 1610gDimensions(mm)...

A fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the California gold rush through the lens of the daguerreotype camera The California gold rush was the first major event in American history to be documented in depth by photography. This fascinating volume...

There are many books written on Bury St Edmunds, some academic, others having a more simplistic approach. This book tells the story of the town through the letters of the alphabet, setting out to explore and inform the reader of some of the facts and...

This book is a photographic odyssey through the lands of the First World War. For more than ten years the photographer travelled from the dust of the Namib deserts to the frozen heights of the Vosges to create a unique collection of images that document...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336955Author Bernard ByromFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 173mm * 240mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847710710Author Iwan Meical JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879313Author Joseph RodriguezFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

A history of BedlingtonshireBook InformationISBN 9780752407845Author Evan MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd

Around Norwich is not just another book on this fine city. Combining many previously unpublished photographs of outstanding quality and interest with well-researched captions, including many new facts and stories, one of the county's foremost local...

The sixties, seventies and eighties were decades of great change. Many towns and cities were redeveloped with projects that dramatically affected the character of the place. People's shopping habits were altered as supermarkets took over from traditional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857239194Author Marco IulianoFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336993Author Elizabeth FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

From the late 1940s onward, Wallace W. Abbey masterfully combined journalistic and artistic vision to transform everyday transportation moments into magical photographs. Abbey, a photographer, journalist, historian, and railroad industry executive,...

A-Z of Southend delves into the history of the Essex coastal town of Southend-on-Sea. Originally Southend was a small collection of buildings at the south end of the village of Prittlewell, but in the late eighteenth century the area became popular as a...

Almost immediately after the invention of photography, Scottish photographers took their clunky cameras on the road to capture the stories of peoples and communities touched by the forces of British imperialism. For the next thirty years, their journeys...

War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ideals. Dora Apel examines a wide variety of images and cultural representations of war in the United States and the Middle...

Wolverhampton Grammar School was founded in 1512 and has been on its present site since 1875. This fascinating collection of over 200 photographs and other documents presents a pictorial record of this rich history, concentrating on the years since the...