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British Railways in the 1970s and '80s by Greg Morse
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.18For British Rail, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when bad jokes about sandwiches and pork pies often belied real achievements, like increasing computerisation and the arrival of the high-speed... -
Art Deco Tiles Hans van Lemmen 9780747811992
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37Art Deco was arguably the twentieth century's most popular and memorable design movement, and has come to define the inter-war period with its clean sleek lines, streamlined shapes, bold abstract... -
Route 66: The Mother Road by David Knudson
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.34Begun in 1926 to connect Chicago to Los Angeles, Route 66 was the country's first major east-west thoroughfare. By 1930 it was an important route for both truckers and travellers alike, and in 1939... -
Stained Glass by Roger Rosewell
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.82The stained glass windows of England's cathedrals and churches are masterpieces of colour and storytelling, and for a thousand years they have brought meaning and beauty to worshippers and visitors... -
Fashion in the Time of the Great Gatsby by Lalonnie Lehman
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $11.04The Great Gatsby is that rare classic that inescapably defines the age from which it sprang: the Roaring '20s, an era of economic boom, stylish excess and above all an explosion of new and exciting... -
Pottery of the Southwest: Ancient Art and Modern Traditions by Carol Hayes
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.18Native American pottery of the U.S. southwest has long been considered collectible and today can fetch many thousands of dollars per piece. Authors, collectors, and dealers Carol and Allen Hayes... -
Bricks and Brickmaking by Martin Hammond 9780747800675
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.32Bricks were introduced to Britain by the Romans and reintroduced by Flemish craftsmen in the middle ages. Until the early nineteenth century they were made in numerous small brickyards supplying... -
Toy Steam Engines by Bob Gordon 9780852637753
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.32Bob Gordon gives a fascinating survey of the different kinds of toy steam engines of the stationary type, and especially those produced during the heyday of steam toys between 1900 and 1930. Dealing... -
The Victorian Fern Craze by Sarah Whittingham 9780747807469
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09Fern Fever (or Pteridomania, to give it its official name), was popular in Britain between 1837 and 1914. Although in previous centuries ferns played an important role in customs and folklore, it was... -
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Dairying Bygones by Arthur Ingram 9780852638668 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $3.17Dairying probably originated in Neolithic times, when man first began to keep livestock. At first sheep and goats were the chief sources of milk but by the sixteenth century the cow had become the... -
The Victorian Policeman by Simon Patrick Dell 9780747805915
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.79As Queen Victoria's reign commenced the old watchmen were still patrolling the streets and Bow Street Runners were still investigating crime in London; the counties and boroughs were being policed by... -
Medieval Wall Paintings by Roger Rosewell
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.13The walls of medieval churches were brightly painted with religious imagery and colourful patterns, and although often shadows of their former selves, these paintings are among the most enigmatic art... -
Old Stationary Engines by David W. Edgington
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.34The author describes the evolution of the first practical stationary engines and illustrates some of the many designs, with notes on their important features and information on the better-known... -
British Army Cap Badges of the First World War by Peter Doyle
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.58For the British army, the cap badge is the most easily identifiable form of insignia. It represents a distillation of the pride of the regiment, its various battle honours and symbols borne proudly... -
Viking Age Archaeology by Richard A. Hall 9780747800637
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37Viking raids, and the subsequent Scandinavian settlements in the ninth and tenth centuries, had a major effect on many parts of Britain and Ireland. These impacts can best be seen in a wide variety... -
Smugglers and Smuggling by Trevor May 9780747812074
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37Smuggling was rife in Britain between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, and since then smugglers have come often to be romanticised as cheeky rogues - as highwaymen of the coasts and... -
The Morris Minor by Ray Newell 9780747807629
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37Well over half a century after it first appeared in 1948, the Morris Minor has become a much-loved classic car. It is as popular now as when in production. During the Second World War, when Alec... -
Poole Pottery by Will Farmer 9780747808350
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37An illustrated history of one of Britain's most popular potteries, by a rising star of the 'Antiques Roadshow'. Poole Pottery is a great British institution, and for more than 130 years has been in... -
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The Potteries by David Sekers 9780747807599 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $4.02'The Potteries' is the name given to the industrial area in the English Midlands that was home to hundreds of pottery-making companies, and until recently supplied most of the country's crockery and... -
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Discovering Subterranean London by Andrew Emmerson 9780747807407 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $3.87This book is the first concise guide to the hidden world of underground London. Informative, authoritative and richly illustrated, this volume takes you on a subterranean tour of the many remarkable... -
The British Dentist by Rachel Bairsto
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37Though the prospect may fill us with dread, most of us need dental treatment at some stage - and the reality is that better care has never been available, as this fully illustrated book shows. Early... -
Ancient Woodland: History, Industry and Crafts Ian Rotherham 9780747811657
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37Though most of us will have enjoyed strolling through beautiful British woodlands, we might not be aware of the ancient - and often complex - origins of our surroundings. From medieval times,... -
Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden by Laura Mayer
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37The name Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-83) has become synonymous with the eighteenth-century English landscape garden. Ruthlessly efficient, he could stake out the 'capabilities' of a particular... -
Navigational Instruments by Dr. Richard Dunn
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.11With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history. As seafarers attempted longer and longer... -
Fox Talbot: An Illustrated Life of Willian Henry Fox Talbot, 'Father of Modern Photography', 1800 -1877 by John Hannavy 9780747803515
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.32Fox Talbot is universally recognised as the father of modern photography. His 'calotype' or 'Talbotype' process was the first working photographic process to use the now familiar format of negatives... -
Mail-Order Homes: Sears Homes and Other Kit Houses by Rebecca L. Hunter 9780747810483
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37The rapid westward expansion of the United States in the early twentieth century set the stage for a new industry: mail-order homes. Sold by such companies as Sears, Roebuck & Co., Aladdin, and... -
Tractors: 1880s to 1980s by Nick Baldwin 9780747807544
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37Steam, and then cumbersome motor, tractors existed in small numbers before 1914, after which the need to produce more foods using less horse and man power saw the origins of the machine we know today... -
British Family Cars of the 1950s and '60s by Anthony Pritchard 9780747807124
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.37With the end of the Second World War it was not long before increasing wealth, cheaper cars, and social pressures made a family car the aspiration of thousands. Ford, Hillman, Standard, Morris and... -
Walking Dickens' London by Lee Jackson 9780747811343
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.09Written by the acclaimed historical novelist Lee Jackson, this book recreates the sights and sounds of Dickens' London and provides a detailed itinerary for those keen to follow in the footsteps of... -
Discovering Traditional Farm Buildings by J.E.C. Peters 9780852635568
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.24This book looks at the purely agricultural buildings in turn, so that each can be recognised, as a barn, a cowhouse, a stable and so on, and examines their features and construction.About the AuthorJ... -
Charcoal and Charcoal Burning by D.W. Kelley 9780852637319
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.32This book describes the rapid growth of the charcoal industry up to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and how the emphasis of development changed to the production and refining of charcoal's... -
Prisoner of War in Germany by Professor Peter Doyle 9780747806851
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37During World War II, German prison camps swelled with Allied Prisoners of War, captured during fierce conflicts, from the Battle of France in 1940 to the bomber offensives over Germany from 1943... -
Medieval Masons by Malcolm Hislop 9780747804611
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $11.13This book explains in detail the practice of masoncraft in the Middle Ages, using evidence from a number of sources. Monastic chronicles, building contracts and other contemporary documents have... -
Railway Posters by Lorna Frost
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.31Railway posters have huge appeal for the modern audience, but just what explains this continuing interest? Enduring images of iconic locomotives, bathing beauties and characters such as Sunny South... -
Traditional Building Materials by Matthew Slocombe
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.39Although steel and glass dominate modern cities, Britain boasts innumerable beautiful examples of more traditional construction methods. Many date from the period before easy nationwide... -
Witches and Witchcraft by David Nash
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $10.18Witchcraft haunts the Western imagination to this day, from Central Europe to Britain to North America. This book explores the development of witchcraft and of the belief in it (stressing the... -
Anglo-Saxon England: 400-790 by Sally Crawford
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37The Anglo-Saxon period has often been dismissed as 'lost centuries' or the Dark Ages, but archaeological evidence and later written sources reveal a complex and sophisticated culture that was... -
Garden Cities by Sarah Rutherford
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37Garden Cities: the phrase is redolent of Arts and Crafts values and nineteenth-century utopianism. But despite being the culmination of a range of influential movements, and their own influence, in... -
Stephensons' Rocket and the Rainhill Trials by Richard Gibbon 9780747808039
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.34George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, is arguably the most enduring silhouette in railway history. But why was Rocket that special? And why does the surviving locomotive look so unlike the striking... -
Clarice Cliff by Will Farmer 9780747807742
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.51There are few pieces of pottery more recognisable than those designed by Clarice Cliff. For many the epitome of Art Deco, characterised by bold colour and lines, geometric shapes, and stylised...