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Medieval Wall Paintings by Roger Rosewell
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.83The 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: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.12The 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.06For 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... -
Smugglers and Smuggling by Trevor May 9780747812074
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.68Smuggling 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.68Well 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.68An 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... -
![The Potteries by David Sekers 9780747807599 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5436856/5514114/9780747807599__72014.1725332888.jpg?c=1 "The Potteries by David Sekers 9780747807599 [USED COPY]")
The Potteries by David Sekers 9780747807599 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $6.08'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... -
Isambard Kingdom Brunel by Richard Tames 9780747807582
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $12.58The famous son of a famous father, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was acknowledged in his own lifetime as the greatest engineer in an era of engineering titans. He helped drive the first tunnel under a... -
![Discovering Subterranean London by Andrew Emmerson 9780747807407 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10016638/11033055/9780747807407__29088.1787122562.jpg?c=1 "Discovering Subterranean London by Andrew Emmerson 9780747807407 [USED COPY]")
Discovering Subterranean London by Andrew Emmerson 9780747807407 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $5.85This 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... -
Railway Posters by Lorna Frost
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.58Railway 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.22Although 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: $15.58Booksplease Price: $15.39Witchcraft 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.68The 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.68Garden 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: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.12George 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.39There 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... -
VW Camper and Microbus Richard Copping 9780747807094
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.68The Volkswagen Transporter is one of the best-loved and most recognisable motor vehicles of all time. The preferred transport for surfers and hippies everywhere, the Volkswagen Type 2 'bus' was born... -
The Salvation Army by Susan Cohen 9780747812456
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.68The Salvation Army is a byword for philanthropy and charitable work, with its brass bands and uniformed officers indelible parts of the fabric of British life - yet many may not be aware of the real... -
![Fox Talbot: An Illustrated Life of Willian Henry Fox Talbot, 'Father of Modern Photography', 1800 -1877 by John Hannavy 9780747803515 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5849377/5926438/9780747803515__89504.1728096267.jpg?c=1 "Fox Talbot: An Illustrated Life of Willian Henry Fox Talbot, 'Father of Modern Photography', 1800 -1877 by John Hannavy 9780747803515 [USED COPY]")
Fox Talbot: An Illustrated Life of Willian Henry Fox Talbot, 'Father of Modern Photography', 1800 -1877 by John Hannavy 9780747803515 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $4.68Fox 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... -
The Victorian Home by Kathryn Ferry 9780747807483
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.22The nineteenth century saw huge changes in design and technology that meant that a middle-class home looked very different by the time Queen Victoria died in 1901 to how it had at her accession in... -
Corrugated Iron Buildings by Nick Thomson 9780747807834
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.09Prefabricated corrugated-iron buildings have been manufactured in Britain since the middle of the nineteenth century. Structures ranging from humble cottages to substantial churches, and from halls... -
The Victorian Public School by Trevor May 9780747807223
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.68Public schools were in the business of producing leaders - in national government, in the Empire, and in the armed forces. Their impact on society was immense, and they provided the vehicle by which... -
The WAAF by Squadron Leader Beryl E. Escott 9780747805724
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $12.40The story of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force is a journey of exploration. This intriguing history tells the story of the wartime WAAF at work and play. They were no decorative adjunct to the RAF, but... -
![Women in the First World War by Neil R. Storey 9780747807520 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9656228/10672948/9780747807520__78495.1781279707.jpg?c=1 "Women in the First World War by Neil R. Storey 9780747807520 [USED COPY]")
Women in the First World War by Neil R. Storey 9780747807520 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $4.80As millions of young men marched off to war, they left behind mothers, wives, sisters, and sweethearts who were determined to contribute to the British cause. Women enrolled as nurses to treat... -
![Perambulators by Jan Swift 9780747806844 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9906721/10923252/9780747806844__69730.1786473959.jpg?c=1 "Perambulators by Jan Swift 9780747806844 [USED COPY]")
Perambulators by Jan Swift 9780747806844 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $7.31A complete illustrated history of the British wheeled baby carrier, from the eighteenth century to the end of the classic pram era, this book is a nostalgic trip down memory lane, and an invaluable... -
![Old Cooking Utensils by David J. Eveleigh 9780852638125 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9954192/10970667/9780852638125__69028.1786540055.jpg?c=1 "Old Cooking Utensils by David J. Eveleigh 9780852638125 [USED COPY]")
Old Cooking Utensils by David J. Eveleigh 9780852638125 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.73Booksplease Price: $5.83How we equip and use our kitchen has changed irrevocably over the centuries and the twentieth century saw far-reaching technological and social changes make their mark; the kitchen fire, for many a... -
![The British Toy Industry by Kenneth Brown 9780747808244 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10023929/11040336/9780747808244__84107.1787723691.jpg?c=1 "The British Toy Industry by Kenneth Brown 9780747808244 [USED COPY]")
The British Toy Industry by Kenneth Brown 9780747808244 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $5.27Toys have been made in Britain for hundreds of years, but it was in the twentieth century that the British toy industry reached its peak. Names such as Meccano, Chad Valley, Dinky, Scalextric, Bayko... -
![Military Barracks by Trevor May 9780747804895 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10131375/11147694/9780747804895__71387.1789541714.jpg?c=1 "Military Barracks by Trevor May 9780747804895 [USED COPY]")
Military Barracks by Trevor May 9780747804895 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $5.85Military barracks played an important part in the social as well as the military history of Britain. They have served many purposes, being homes, training establishments and recruitment depots, and... -
British Railways in the 1970s and '80s by Greg Morse
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.39For 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.68Art 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: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.12Begun 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... -
Fashion in the Time of the Great Gatsby by Lalonnie Lehman
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.69The 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.39Native 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: $13.63Booksplease Price: $12.58Bricks 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: $13.63Booksplease Price: $12.58Bob 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Fern 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... -
![Dairying Bygones by Arthur Ingram 9780852638668 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9954193/10970668/9780852638668__68229.1786540056.jpg?c=1 "Dairying Bygones by Arthur Ingram 9780852638668 [USED COPY]")
Dairying Bygones by Arthur Ingram 9780852638668 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.73Booksplease Price: $4.80Dairying 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... -
Chocolate by Paul Chrystal 9780747808411
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.83The British passion for chocolate is centuries old and shows no signs of abating. Paul Chrystal here tells the story of chocolate in Britain, from its arrival in the late sixteen hundreds, through... -
The Victorian Policeman by Simon Patrick Dell 9780747805915
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $10.26As 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... -
Farming in the 1920s and 30s by Jonathan Brown
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.68With world markets upset and economies in recession, the 1920s and '30s were not an easy time for farmers, who required great resilience to survive. Jonathan Brown here examines the challenges that...