Bill Laws: 3 books
Byways, Boots & Blisters
A History of Walkers and Walking
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
"The great affair is to move: to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. This book celebrates the history of walking for leisure and pleasure. There’s no shortage of the famous, and the not so famous, exponents...
Real Ale
Recipes, History, Snippets
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
This delightful book tells you everything you ever wanted to know about real ale - from its first recorded brewing by the Sumerians 5,000 years ago through its spread to Europe via the cultivation of grains to its establishment as a British favourite. Did you know beer was buried with the Pharaohs...
Nails, Noggins and Newels
An Alternative History of Every House
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2006
Starting at the front door, this book takes a look at our homes through different eyes, revealing the history of every part from the bricks and beams to pelmets, lights and water pipes; from wallpaper, windows and paints to floors, fires and fitted kitchens.