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A-Z of Letchworth Garden City delves into the history of the first garden city in the world, which was founded in Hertfordshire in 1903 as the brainchild of social reformer Ebenezer Howard. It highlights well-known town landmarks, famous residents and...

Amersham Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of Buckinghamshire. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exciting examination of the well-known streets and famous faces, and what they meant to the people of this area...

Pinner was one of the ancient villages of Middlesex. Lanes led from its High Street to small hamlets, a handful of grand houses, the common fields, woods, and places further afield. By the nineteenth century, the countryside was a patchwork of farms,...

As an important crossing point of the River Severn, Gloucester has played an important role in history from Roman times to the present day. It was founded in AD 97 under Emperor Nerva and has a rich and varied history, reflected in its architecture and...

Burford has been here for more than thirteen centuries and was chartered as a market town over nine hundred years ago. Its market flourished on trade in wool and leather and later it became a racing and coaching resort. But the railways passed Burford by...

The city of Leeds, self-proclaimed 'Capital of the North', has come a long way since receiving its first charter in 1207. From its early developments during the Industrial Revolution, it has become a major area for the production of wool, engineering and...

Peebles History Touris a unique insight into the illustrious history of this ancient Borders town and shows how much it has changed during the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Readers are invited to follow local author Liz Hanson as she...

Abingdon History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this Oxfordshire town. This is an exciting guided walk around Abingdon, its well-known streets and striking buildings, and explains what they meant to the people of this town...

The Glasgow, Cowal & Bute Route follows the development of the railways on the southern shores of the River Clyde, describing their influence on life in the towns and resorts of the river and Firth. The book also examines shipping, steamboats, ferries...

Millions of years ago, the North American continent was dragged over the world's largest continental hotspot (a hug column of molten rock rising from the earth's interior), tracing a 5 mile wide, 500 mile long path northeastward across Idaho and...

With a history as rich, yet bloody, as Northumberland has, it comes as little surprise that the county is widely regarded as being one of the most haunted in Britain. In Paranormal Northumberland, local author Rob Kirkup draws on contemporary and...

Warrington is an old, established town with a rapidly changing townscape during a transformation from a traditional industrial Lancashire centre to a twenty-first-century Cheshire New Town. In Warrington Reflections, local author and historian Janice...

Most countries have been explored and documented extensively - Saudi Arabia isn't one of them. Still shrouded in mystery, the country and its inhabitants are relatively unknown to the rest of the world. Alex Schlacher travelled the entire Kingdom in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617662Author Bob YateFormat PaperbackImprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Rugby From Old Photographs offers a captivating glimpse into the history of this town, providing the reader with a visual representation of Rugby's intriguing and chequered history. Drawing upon an eclectic collection of over 200 photographs, the Rugby...

Tring 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 Tring, the famous streets and the famous faces, and what they meant to the people of this area...

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The seaside town of Bournemouth was founded as a watering place in the early nineteenth century in an area of barren land on the south coast known for smuggling. After developing as a health resort, the railways arrived and the town grew rapidly,...

This lavishly illustrated book covers Barnard Castle, Middleton-in-Teesdale and a selection of Teesdale villages including Piercebridge, Gainford, Staindrop, Greta Bridge, Cotherstone, Romaldkirk and Mickleton. In Barnard Castle the story begins with the...

Gillingham Forest provided a hunting lodge for the Angevin Kings, notably King John. In the 1820s, the artist John Constable stayed at Gillingham vicarage and, being impressed by the beauty of the countryside, executed several local sketches and...

The history of modern Middlesbrough, which only began with the laying out of the 'new' town in 1830, is a history of people coming from all parts of the British Isles to an industrial boom town. However, the Middlesbrough of the last years of the...

Southampton has been a major port on the south coast of England since the Middle Ages. As a gateway to the country, over the centuries Southampton has welcomed people from all over the world, as well as being an important embarkation point, most famously...

The historic county of Fife is a natural peninsula on the east coast of Scotland, bordered by the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Tay. Alongside its three largest settlements of Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes it is also home to the ancient city of...

Archaeology is understanding people in the past from what they have left behind. Objects inform us about how people lived, what they made and the things they did. There has often been a view that there are no archaeological finds in the North West...

St Andrews History Tour is a unique insight into the extensive history of this beautiful town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland. Local author Helen Cook guides us through St Andrews, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they've...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338393Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 175mm * 240mm * 4mm

Dublin has had a long association with its pubs. The city grew rapidly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, becoming a major port for trade around the world, and the city boasted a wealth of taverns, inns, alehouses and public houses. An...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587309Author Liam BaileyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 441g

In these days of ubiquitous, non-stop media and information you would think that there were few secrets anywhere left to reveal, but when it comes to Chatham there remain a surprising number of facts and idiosyncrasies that, over the years, have remained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781722589Author Phil CopeFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 1369g

With his first book Dennis Horgan showed he is an aerial photographer of exceptional talent. His aerial photographs are absorbing as they give a new bird's-eye-view of well-known buildings, streets, monuments, the suburbs and countryside. Here he has...

Tadcaster History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this north Yorkshire market town, its well-known streets and famous places, and explains what they meant to local people throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...

The history of the West Country has left a rich legacy of castles and other fortifications throughout its landscape, built wherever power and wealth needed to be displayed, strategic points controlled or territory and local populations defended. In this...

The county of Shropshire holds many delights, from the beauty of Ellesmere, at the heart of Shropshire's Lake District, to the glories of Wenlock Edge and The Wrekin. Shropshire also boasts more than its fair share of heritage and history, from the...

Rochester lends the Medway towns a degree of class. It is the ancient core of Kent's largest conurbation. Instantly recognisable by its splendid Norman castle and beautiful cathedral, its shops abound with references to Charles Dickens - who lived and...

Bungay History Tour offers an enthralling insight into the fascinating history of this town in Suffolk. Author Christopher Reeve guides us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they have...

The jewel in Waveney's crown, Bungay is a small market town in Suffolk that owes its sparkling title to both its rich heritage of historic buildings and its superb setting poised above the lovely water meadows of the River Waveney. Chosen by Roman and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626195295Author Alison FortierFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

The city of Plymouth, on the south coast of Devon, has been a maritime settlement since its earliest days. A trading port in Roman and Saxon times, fishing and boatbuilding have also been mainstays of the local industry for centuries. The original...

This wonderful new book by local author Malcolm Hitt and local historian Gary Firth, takes a comparative peep into how Titus Salt's model industrial village has changed since acquiring the status of a World Heritage site. Images are brought together to...