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Once known as Forfarshire, Angus is an area full of rich contrasts, from the coastal towns and villages of Arbroath, Montrose, Carnoustie and Monifieth, to the glens on the fringes of the Highlands. Yet it is the hidden history of the ordinary, and not...

Evesham History Tour offers an insight into the fascinating history of this Worcestershire town. Author Stan Brotherton guides us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they have changed over...

Falmouth is a comparatively modern town, founded by the Killigrew family in the seventeenth century, close to Henry VIII's Pendennis Castle built to defend the south coast of Cornwall by the River Fal. Arwenack House, home of the powerful Killigrew...

Lincolnshire has many well-known stories of the supernatural, among the best known of which is that of the Lincoln Imp. In this book author Daniel J. Codd explores the supernatural lore of Lincolnshire. It includes all manner of phenomena, from forgotten...

The beautiful town of Ilkley, situated in the heart of Wharfdale, has been a famous and much-loved tourist destination ever since it was established as a fashionable spa town of the railway age. Home to the oldest literary festival in the north of...

This book takes a photographic tour of one of the City of Westminster's more distinctive areas, and with a wealth of archive images set alongside comparison photographs from the present day shows how old neighbourhoods have evolved through the decades...

Medieval King's Lynn (Bishop's Lynn before 1537) was a premier English port, a position it retained until the Industrial Revolution. Its maritime economy was undermined by the coming of the railways, which were the harbinger of modest industrialisation...

Before the emergence of the steam railway rocketed the likes of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson - the great Victorian engineers - into the limelight, there was a 'Colossus' who dominated the engineering scene and laid the foundations for...

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...

The Old West may have faded from living memory but the actual locations where the robberies and shoot-outs took place can still be found over one hundred years later. In the pages of On the Trail of the Old West Then and Now, we glimpse the past through...

Forming the northern gateway to Gloucestershire's picturesque north Cotswolds, Moreton-in-Marsh stands on two busy roads: the ancient Roman Fosse Way and the main route from Oxford to Worcester. In the nineteenth century up to seventy coaches rattled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336832Author Peter MortimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm * 5mm

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

Amsterdam Then and Now is the perfect historical guide to one of Europe's best preserved city centres. Written by one of Amsterdam's most popular walking tour leaders, the book matches up archive images from the late nineteenth century through to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339260Author Tom HeavysideFormat PaperbackImprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The Thames Estuary is the gateway into London that had to be defended against seaborne invasion. Through proximity to the Continent, these waters were a likely passageway for those intent upon seaborne raids or invasion, necessitating the need for a...

Falkirk is a small town with a big history. Its strategic location, at the crossroads of lowland Scotland, contributed to its key role in Scotland's history. The Romans were the first to make a significant mark on the district, William Wallace and Bonnie...

Whitby History Tour offers a fascinating insight into the intriguing history of this coastal town in Yorkshire. Author Robin Cook guides us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they have...

Rose's realisation that she knows almost nothing about the people and places she has encountered every day for years will be a familiar one for city dwellers all over Britain. For Rose, it sparks the inspiration for an adventure through one of the most...

Derby is an exceptional and underrated city. It was an important centre of the Midlands Enlightenment, boasting Dr Erasmus Darwin and John Whitehurst FRS among its eighteenth-century residents. It produced an artist of international repute in Joseph...

Gloucestershire is a large county, rich in food and drink heritage. Famous for Double Gloucester cheese and the cheese rolling event, Old Spot pigs, cider and the birthplace of prominent tea merchant Thomas Twining, Gloucestershire's culinary history is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617532Author John MairFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

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...

From the murderous cannibalism of Sawney Bean to the bodysnatching exploits of Burke and Hare, Edinburgh has seen its fair share of ghoulish happenings over the years. But does it truly deserve its reputation as one of Britain's most haunted cities?...

Blackpool isn't a particularly old town and its rapid development has primarily been fuelled by tourism in the last 150 years or so. To cater for the millions of visitors that arrive each year, Blackpool has more licensed premises than anywhere else in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780639831848Author Angela ScottFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint HPH PublishingPublisher HPH PublishingWeight(grams) 3000g

Gateshead has often been portrayed as the 'poor relative' of its larger and more glamorous Tyneside neighbour Newcastle. But Gateshead has a long and proud industrial and social history, much of which has sadly gone, but in recent years there has been a...

Although Royal Leamington Spa has its origins several hundred years ago, then known as Leamington Priors, the town only came to prominence in the past 200 years. With the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars raging between 1792 and 1815, travel to foreign...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909823273Author Jackie MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

For centuries visitors to Monmouthshire have been seduced by its picturesque landscape and breathtaking beauty. Poets, princes, priests, peasants, painters, politicians, and even pirates have all sung the praises of this unique little corner of Wales. It...

Often regarded as a quiet holiday county, in fact Dorset has many aviation connections. As early as 1908 Bleriots were being built by Bournemouth businessmen, the Royal Navy undertook first landing on a warship at Weymouth in 1910, the Schneider Race was...

From the legionary fortress at York to the coastal lookout towers on the coast, and from the artisan potters of Crambeck to the brooch makers of Castleford, the history of Yorkshire has an indelible mark left upon it by the Roman period. The Romans built...

At the heart of Southeast Asia, the kingdom of Thailand is full of diversity, created by its long history and successive kingdoms. Renowned for food, beaches, friendly people and a relaxed lifestyle, Thailand shows just how much there is to explore. With...

Secret Rotherham offers a unique insight into this bustling, modern South Yorkshire town through a series of little-known and forgotten stories, facts and anecdotes from its past. The town has an enviable industrial history: Nelson's HMS Victory was...

Opened in 1931 as Yeadon Aerodrome, Leeds-Bradford Airport is the largest in Yorkshire. Regular flights began from the airport in 1935 with a service to Newcastle, Edinburgh and London (Heston). During the war, the airfield was used as a shadow factory...

The inimitable Charles Dickens is regarded by many as the finest novelist of the Victorian era. His ability to weave magic with words makes him as popular as ever. Born in 1812 in what many would describe as humble circumstances, he went on to create...

Blackpool was 'created' from sparsely populated farmland and villages for the purpose of visitors having fun and pleasure. The development of the town over the last 170 years or so has led to a diverse modern history, which could be said to reflect, in a...

The West Sussex town of Horsham, lying on the River Arun in the Weald, has given its name to the famous Horsham stone, a sandstone quarried locally and used since the Middle Ages for roof tiles and paving slabs. The area was known for its fossils in...

From its days as a booming coal-mining and shipbuilding port in the mid-nineteenth century through post-industrial decline and late twentieth-century regeneration, to its current status as a growing commercial centre and popular tourist destination,...

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...