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Born to be a Baggie: A West Bromwich Albion Supporter's 50-Year Odyssey by Dean Walton 9781445658575
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32'What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It's not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive... -
Oscar's Ghost: The Battle for Oscar Wilde's Legacy by Laura Lee 9781445662589
Booksplease Price: £22.97'In all his life [Oscar] has never written me a letter that was unkind or at least unloving and to see anything terrible in his handwriting written directly to me would almost kill me.' This was... -
Proud to be a Baggie: A Pictorial History of West Bromwich Albion Fans by Dean Walton 9781445681276
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.51Players come and players go, managers and staff regularly change. The one consistent thing about any football club is the fans. They follow their team home and away through good times and bad times... -
1960s Childhood by Dr Janet Shepherd
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Sixties children grew up in a more permissive and commercial age. They enjoyed a childhood in which new vaccines gave children protection from life threatening diseases while the contraceptive pill... -
Deal Through Time by Robert Turcan
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The history of Deal has been shaped by its position on the extreme eastern coastline of Kent. Close to France, it was of such significant naval importance that Henry VIII chose to erect a castle here... -
Chard and its Villages Through Time by Frank Huddy
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68'There is some deep satisfaction in being born in a place like Chard', said Margaret Bondfield the UK's first female cabinet minister, in her book A Life's Work. 'The old cloth trade of Chard - the... -
A-Z of Soho and Fitzrovia: Places-People-History by Johnny Homer
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Soho and Fitzrovia are two of London's most vibrant and bohemian neighbourhoods. Divided geographically only by Oxford Street, they can both boast a fascinating and occasionally dark history. In... -
Secret Royal Leamington Spa by Graham Sutherland
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Although 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... -
Whitley Bay & Seaton Sluice Through Time by Ken Hutchinson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Whitley Bay and Seaton Sluice are two towns on the North East coast with fascinating histories. They are now both popular with tourists but started life in different ways. Whitley Bay was developed... -
Secret Whitby by Ian Thompson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Whitby is a beautiful fishing town on the North Yorkshire coast, best known for its fish and chip restaurants and its connections with the world's most famous vampire - Dracula. But, did you know... -
Volvo Buses and Coaches by Howard Berry
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68It seems impossible to think that a company who imported their first passenger vehicle into Britain in 1972 would, less than twenty years later, take over what was once Britain's largest passenger... -
Secret Exeter by Tim Isaac
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Few cities in the UK present a more favourable impression to visitors and residents alike than Exeter, the county town of Devon. Today it is a modern, thriving and pleasant city, known for its... -
Secret Margate by Andy Bull
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The seaside town of Margate in Kent has based its livelihood on the sea since its beginnings. It was one of the first places to be developed as a seaside resort in the Georgian era. Margate's sandy... -
Secret Barnard Castle & Teesdale by Andrew Graham Stables
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Teesdale is the second largest designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England and Wales, and has a population of over 25,000. There is also a vast amount history contained within its... -
Sunderland Through Time by Keith Cockerill
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Sunderland 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 Sunderland, the famous streets and... -
Buses and Coaches in Wales: 1980 to 2001 by Mike Street
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.39The final two decades of the twentieth century saw great changes in the bus and coach industry in Great Britain. In the early 1980s the National Bus Company reorganisation saw the Welsh operations of... -
Secret Leeds by John Edwards
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Leeds is the UK's third largest city and is home to a community rich in history, ambition and achievement. As the financial, cultural and commercial heart of West Yorkshire, Leeds is a city essential... -
Pontypridd Through Time by Alun Seward
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Pontypridd Through Time portrays the history of this iconic market town that sits at the gateway to three historic valleys of the South Wales coalfield. It also illustrates some of the changes that... -
Walthamstow Through Time by Lindsay Collier
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The name Walthamstow derives from the Anglo-Saxon 'Wilcumestouue', meaning 'the welcome place'. Once noted for fine views, woodlands and wealthy estates, Walthamstow changed dramatically with the... -
Chepstow Through Time by Keith E. Morgan
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Chepstow (Welsh: Cas-gwent) is a town in Monmouthshire, Wales, adjoining the border with Gloucestershire, England on a bend of the River Wye. The region has been occupied since Neolithic times, and... -
Winchester History Tour by Anne-Louise Barton
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Winchester History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of the ancient capital of Wessex. From the time of its Iron Age settlements, rulers, bishops and inhabitants over the last two... -
British Coaching: Chassis Manufacturers, Coachbuilders and Operators by Michael Hymans
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Coaches have long been a part of life in Britain, from the days of eighteenth-century stage coaches galloping along muddied tracks to air-conditioned fleets cruising the motorways of the modern day... -
Secret Aldeburgh to Southwold Terry Philpot 9781445674063
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Aldeburgh and Southwold are now very much delightful, fashionable coastal towns, set amid Suffolk's flat farming country, but in the eighteenth century the poet George Crabbe, a native and local... -
Secret Dundee by Gregor Stewart
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Known as a major industrial centre, the city of Dundee has a long and eventful history. Following the development of a small trading port in the eleventh century, by the fourteenth century Dundee had... -
Derby History Tour by Maxwell Craven
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Derby History Tour offers a fascinating insight into the history of this city in the East Midlands. Author Maxwell Craven guides us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how its famous... -
Saltash Through Time by Derek Tait
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.23Saltash has seen many changes over the years. The waterside area beside the River Tamar has been occupied for over a thousand years and was the home to fishermen plying their trade for much of that... -
Falmouth Through Time by Michael Bradley
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.49Falmouth, situated on the beautiful River Fal, and with one of the finest natural harbours in the world, developed and prospered to become the base for the famous Packet Service between the... -
50 Gems of Guernsey: The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places by Soo Wellfair
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Guernsey is a beautiful Channel Island with a fascinating history and breathtaking scenery. With an area of just 24 square miles, visitors are astonished at just how much there is to see and do. The... -
Worktown's People: Mass Observation in Bolton by Dave Burnham
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The Mass Observation survey of life in Bolton between 1937 and 1940 is justly celebrated today. The aim was to observe and record everyday life in all its forms in one town - at work, at home, on the... -
Hemel Hempstead History Tour by Eve Davis
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61In 1539, Henry VIII came to Hemel Hempstead and granted a Charter, putting the town on the map. Its designation as a New Town in 1946 has seen it grow from a market town of 22,000 to one of the... -
Secret Leicester by Stephen Butt
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.49There is a history of Leicester that is hidden from view, or simply not recognised today because it is so familiar. There are Norman and medieval arches below landmark buildings, mosaics beneath the... -
The Buses of Northern Scottish: From Alexanders (Northern) to Stagecoach by Peter Findlay
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42How many of us grew up saying they wanted to be a bus driver? How many of us actually did it? Peter Findlay can answer yes to both questions. This book reflects the author's interest in Northern... -
Dartmouth Through Time by Ginny Campbell
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Situated within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Dartmouth is a popular tourist destination on the River Dart. As Ginny Campbell's beautifully illustrated pages show, it has an... -
Secret Worthing by James Henry
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Every town and village has a secret or two tucked away; Worthing is no exception. This popular Sussex seaside resort on the south coast is an eclectic mix of Edwardian, Georgian and Victorian... -
Past Times of Macclesfield Volume IV by Dorothy Bentley Smith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15This particular volume consists of articles that were wholly or partially published when the author, local history expert Dorothy Bentley Smith, was a columnist for the Macclesfield Express from... -
50 Gems of Dorset: The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places by John Megoran
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.39Famous for its spectacular coastal scenery, beautiful beaches and ancient castles, Dorset is a county with a huge and diverse appeal. From the delights of Lyme Regis to lovely Lulworth Cove, this... -
Central Bristol History Tour by Anthony Beeson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Central Bristol History Tour is a fascinating insight into the history of this famous old port city and shows just how much it has changed during the course of the centuries. Readers are invited to... -
Uncle George's Golden Days by Humphrey Phelps
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Uncle George is a baker based in the Forest of Dean. He is now planning to retire and sell the bakery. The Forest Series began with Just Around the Corner, followed by Just Across the Fields and... -
Whitby Yards Through Time by Alan Whitworth
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.87To visit Whitby's 'Yards' is to step back in time. Hardly changed from the Middle Ages, this is where one can still meet old Whitby - a secret Whitby - unspoilt and untroubled by the holiday... -
A-Z of Bolton: Places-People-History by Dave Burnham
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The Lancashire town of Bolton has a rich heritage, much of which is derived from its former cotton industry. During the Industrial Revolution it grew rapidly, becoming one of the largest textile...