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This photo-rich book presents a vibrant and readable account of the modern Olympics with particular reference to British involvement and success.
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A New Guide
This fascinating little book is a great introduction to the story of the Pendle witch trials of 1612.
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$11.95
$8.96
- Available September 2012
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Image and Reality
Explores 2000 years of change, variety and interest, focusing on the lives of ordinary residents, and seeking to explain, as well as to chronicle, Bath's truly unique historical legacy.
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$23.96
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Government, Global Business, and the Scottish Highlands
‘Aluminiumville is a magnificent achievement. It covers a great deal of ground. It is packed with interesting ideas and insights, all resting on extraordinarily thorough research.'
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$23.95
$17.96
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The Making of a Manufacturing People
This important new book endeavors to explain the industrial revolution throughout the British Isles.
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$38.95
$29.21
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A History of Meccano, Ltd.
The Meccano story as told here and extensively illustrated will stir nostalgia, tinged no doubt with regret at the demise of an enterprise still synonymous with childhood.
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This book should find a place on the bookshelves of everyone interested in the flora of Britain.
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$79.95
$59.96
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Haworth village and its parsonage will forever be linked inextricably with one nineteenth-century literary family, the Brontës .
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Preston earned its Guild Merchant in 1179; the tradition continues over 800 years on.
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The city of Sheffield has long been synonymous with cutlery and steel, and most previous books have understandably concentrated on the momentous changes which industrialization wrought on the area over the last two hundred years.
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County of the Broad Acres
The historic county of Yorkshire lasted for about 1,000 years. Its administrative structure was swept away in 1974, but its distinctive identity is still clearly recognised by its own people and by outsiders.
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$36.95
$27.71
- Available September 2012
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People and Houses of South-East England c. 1300-1900
Danae Tankard’s new book looks at the people and the houses of the South East over a 600-year period by studying a group of well-documented buildings.
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$38.95
$29.21
- Available September 2012
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The Making of Farm Machinery in Britain since 1800
Agricultural technology has moved on, inexorably, from broad-cast seed and the sound of the threshing flail, via the portable steam engine and the threshing machine, right through to the modern world of giant tractors and efficient farming methods. This book traces the broad sweep of the whole industry over 200 years.
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$45.95
$34.46
- Available September 2012
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$29.95
$22.46
- Available September 2012
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Jennet Preston and the Lancashire Witches
Was there really a satanic coven on Pendle side? Or was Jennet framed by Lister’s son? This very popular book separates the myth from the legend on the Lancashire `witches’.
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$12.95
$9.71
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A People’s History
Liverpool: A People’s History tells the full story of this unique place in a way which celebrates the individuals who have shaped it, often allowing witnesses from the past to speak for themselves.
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A History
Everyone thinks they know London. Its landmarks have been used in a hundred films, its skyline and riverscape instantly recognizable. For London has been at the centre of the nation’s and even the world’s attention, on and off, for two thousand years.
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A fascinating record decade-by-decade, year by year, of great actors, famous performances, major premieres, celebrated revivals, and spectacular productions. A delightful reference book; a pleasure to dip into at random.
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A History
A process of phenomenal economic and industrial growth which began just over two centuries ago was to put this hitherto remote Lancashire town – ‘the greatest mere village in England’, as Defoe famously called it – on to the international map.
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200 Years of Making Friends and Helping People
On 10 October 1810, 27 men came together to form the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity. It was to be the beginning of an organization which for the last 200 years has appealed to the best in people, treated them as capable of exercising responsibility, and empowered them to face the challenges of life.
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Field Sports in England since 1850
The first book to offer a proper historical perspective on the subject of field sports in England.
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$29.95
$22.46
- Available September 2012
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Traditional Savoury Pies, Pasties and Puddings from across the British Isles
Britain is a pie society; we just love ’em. This book is pie lovers’ heaven, packed with scrumptious recipes for traditional savoury treats that are easy as... er... pie, to make, and even easier to eat. So, take a look inside, roll up your sleeves and get baking!
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- Available September 2012
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The Rise and Fall of Liverpool’s Docklands
The story of Liverpool – warts and all – written with warmth and passion. Seen from the perspective of the working people of the docks and their dockland communities.
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A History of the Pendle Witches and Their Magic
The Pendle witchcraft case is a compelling human story, and also provides a dramatic insight into the importance of magic in the lives of our ancestors.
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Thomas Pott's Original Account Modernized & Introduced by Robert Poole
In this excellent new book, well-respected historian Robert Poole presents an up-to-date version of Thomas Potts’s original account of the famous witch hunt of 1612, in which 19 Lancashire witches, mostly from the Pendle area, were tried at Lancaster.
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A History
A masterly, immensely readable and totally convincing narrative of 500 years of this great and mightily important British industry
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1750-1914
A general overview of the British Isles during perhaps the most interesting and varied period of its history, told by Britain's foremost social historian..
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- Available November 2012
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