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The modern city of Southend-on-Sea has come a long way since its 18th-century origins as an oyster fishing hamlet at the south end of Prittlewell parish. Now Southend is a regional employment, shopping and educational centre, attracting 6.5 million...

The market and university town of Loughborough has a long, varied, and often unexpected history. In mediaeval Loughborough many people worked the land or provided services necessary for everyday life, such as blacksmithing, millwrighting, and stone...

Horsham is a market town in West Sussex on a major crossing of the River Adur. The origins of the town date back to Anglo-Saxon times and was known early on for horse trading, becoming established as a borough in the early 13th century. Horsham was...

From Ischia to Capri, Amalfi and Sicily, Italy's most iconic coastal travel destinations are poetically explored through the lens of fine arts photographer Natalie Obradovich who captures the soul of each location with affection and nuance. Each image is...

How can photography enrich our knowledge of Latin America? Photography provides unique insights into Latin America. It acts as a witness, agent, and archive - containing a wealth of knowledge about the continent, its social classes, and its multiple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810148673Author David ZurickFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University Press

Saxon settlers and Viking invaders defined the early settlement of Formby on the coast of northwest England. The manors that made up the town and small port lived through the Norman conquest, Black Death and was noteworthy as the home of the country's...

Dundee is a modern city with a long history. It became a royal burgh in the late twelfth century, but the town itself long predates this, and human settlement in the area can be traced back many hundreds of years earlier. In its eight centuries of...

Badenoch and Strathspey is a land of many contrasts, and in modern times a land of many uses. Not always has it been the playground of winter sports enthusiasts and a mecca for tourists - for centuries the mountains which protected the province of Moray...

Maidstone is the county town of Kent. The medieval town grew as an agricultural and industrial centre alongside the River Medway and played a pivotal role in the Peasants' Revolt. Industries attracted to the town included paper mills, brewing, textiles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643365565Author Robert C ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South Carolina Press

St Albans has an incredibly varied history and has been directly involved in major historical trends and events in Britain from the Romans to the present day. Under the Romans, Verulamium became the second-largest town in Britain. The first British...

During the Iron Age, much of East Anglia was under the control of the Iceni tribe, whose queen Boudicca is believed to have been born close to present-day Norwich. The roots of the fledgling settlement then known as Northwic were laid down in the 8th...

Putting archive and contemporary photographs of the same landmark side-by-side, Brooklyn Then and Now (R) provides a visual chronicle of the city's past, full of rich history and culture. The Brooklyn Bridge,...

Taunton's history goes back to Anglo-Saxon times, when it was an important burh and the site of a monastery. The manor was owned by the bishops of Winchester and in the 13th century the borough of Taunton became the county town of Somerset. The town and...

Kew and Brentford are not so much separated by the River Thames as connected through it. The ford here was the first point on the tidal stretch of the great river that could easily be crossed on foot - meant many travellers have passed through down the...

The market town of Beccles lies on the River Waveney, close to the Norfolk Broads and floods have been part of its history. Once a river port, it is still a boating centre. Its Saxon and Norse origins can be seen in many of the street names, as can its...

Mesoamerica experienced a significant flourishing in the years beginning with Early Classic period, through to the Maya civilisation and culminating in the eventual fall of the Aztec civilisation in the 16th Century CE. Through these treasures of fine...

Whitstable on the north Kent coast, on the Thames Estuary, has long been famous for its oysters. One of the world's first steam railways connected Whitstable to Canterbury in 1830, bringing goods and passengers from its harbour. Today the special...

Built to last, built to impress, built with style and grandeur - it is all the more remarkable when the most ostentatious of buildings fall into disrepair and become ruins. From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions,...

Lincoln is a modern university city. It has a bustling twenty-first century waterfront with restaurants, bars and hotels and, for over forty years, it has been home to the UK's original Christmas market. However, this popular tourist destination has a...

The Great American Retro Road Trip is a coast-to-coast journey chronicling retro roadside America. Discover classic giant roadside attractions, from The Coffee Pot and The Big Duck to the World's Largest Paint Can and the Haines Shoe House. Iconic...

For centuries, Whitechapel has been at the centre of multicultural Britain. It has offered sanctuary to successive waves of immigrants fleeing religious intolerance, pogroms and poverty: Huguenots from France, Irish, Jews from Eastern Europe and...

The market town of Romsey lies on the River Test in Hampshire, on the borders of the New Forest. The mediaeval settlement grew around its wealthy abbey, and the abbey church is still one of the glories of the town today. Woollen and tanning industries...

The county town of Carmarthenshire, Carmarthen is located on the River Towy, about eight miles to the north of Carmarthen Bay. It is possibly the oldest town in Wales and as such has a long and fascinating history, from its castle, steeped in ancient...

The town of St Andrews in Fife has much to celebrate. Its cathedral was the largest church built in Scotland and the Bishops, and later Archbishops, played an important role in ruling mediaeval Scotland. Scotland's first university was established in St...

The Black Country in the West Midlands was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution. The area became known for its intensive heavy industries and a unique identity developed around the densely populated towns of the Black Country. Over the years a host...

An incredible accordion-folded gift book that features a panoramic portrait of the island of Manhattan, seen from both the East River and the Hudson River The Manhattan skyline has always held a unique allure in the world’s imagination. At street level,...

Chicago in Color offers a new minimalist and colorful perspective of Chicago. In 2019, photographer Judit Prat Martí left behind her hometown of Terrassa, a city near Barcelona, and moved to Chicago to accept a position as part of the Astronomy and...

Beneath the surface of the West Yorkshire city of Wakefield lies a subterranean world, including tunnels, ancient cellars, disused railway tunnels and a burial ground. Coal mining had taken place around Wakefield for centuries, with the last pits closing...

Coventry has been a major centre of trade and industry since the Middle Ages. Mediaeval Coventry was known for making tiles, cloth, buckles, statues and stained glass. Other textile industries followed, the dyeing of cloth with the famous Coventry true...

Wallington village in Hampshire today lies adjacent to the town of Fareham but its rich history and heritage goes back millennia. Despite encroaching development, the heart of the village remains strong, with its large water meadow and the picturesque...

"Affrilachia," a term first coined in 1991 by Kentucky poet Frank X Walker, refers to the cultural contributions of African Americans who live in Appalachia, a largely mountainous region stretching over thirteen states from Mississippi to New York...

Beneath the surface of the Black Country lies a little-known world that encompasses the history of the towns that historically make up this area in the boroughs of Dudley, Wolverhampton, Walsall and Sandwell. The area was associated with coal mining and...

The town of Gillingham in Kent grew up around the Royal Navy's Chatham Dockyard. By the River Medway, this had been an important maritime area for centuries but it was only in the nineteenth century that the small settlement grew into a town. A large...

Aberystwyth is the unofficial capital of mid-Wales. Situated on Cardigan Bay, Aberystwyth attracts many as a seaside resort and a university town as well as being a gateway to the Cambrian Mountains inland. The ruins of the castle, destroyed in the Civil...

Bolton has long been an important town in Lancashire. It was a centre for wool and cotton weaving in the Middle Ages and during the Industrial Revolution became a leading textile producer worldwide. The town grew rapidly in the nineteenth and early...

The original settlement of Cambridge was founded on the banks of the River Granta (later Cam) and the river is still an integral part of the city. The first college of the University of Cambridge was founded in 1209 and its history is intertwined with...

Four thousand years before the birth of Christ, ancient Egypt was the cradle of modern civilization. Powerful pharaohs built great cities on the fertile banks of the Nile, and employed thousands of labourers to create lavish tombs and temples such as...

Scotland is a beautiful country and it can often look more stunning from the air, from that special bird’s-eye view. With today’s technology, drones have opened up the world, showing us new and unique perspectives on the landscape. In this book acclaimed...