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by Rob Burman
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This book covers the whole range of collectables from the Gerry Anderson shows, from the 1960s to the present day. Ranging from Four Feather Falls (1959–60), Supercar (1961–62), Fireball XL5 (1962) to the iconic Thunderbirds (mid-1960s) and Captain Scarlet, Rob Burman provides a detailed analysis...
The Middle Ages Unlocked
A Guide to Life in Medieval England, 1050-1300
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
To our modern minds, the Middle Ages seem to mix the well-known and familiar with wildly alien concepts and circumstances. The Middle Ages Unlocked provides an invaluable introduction to this complex and dynamic period in England. Exploring a wide range of topics from law, religion and education to...
by Paul Chrystal
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
From what the Ancient Greeks might have talked about in bed to women’s health and the intricacies of Greek marriage, Paul Chrystal shines a much-needed light on sex and sexuality in ancient Greece, one of the world’s most influential civilizations. This is a balanced, comprehensive and well-researched...
Gun Button to Fire: A Hurricane Pilots Dramatic Story of the Battle of Britain
A Hurricane Pilot's Dramatic Story of the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
This is a fighter pilot's story of eight memorable months from May to December 1940. When the Germans were blitzing their way across France, Pilot Officer Tom Neil had just received his first posting to 249 Squadron.
Nineteen years old, fresh from training at Montrose on Hawker Audax biplanes...
A Girl Aboard the Titanic
The Remarkable Memoir of Eva Hart, a 7-year-old Survivor of the Titanic Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
We went on the day on the boat train…I was 7, I had never seen a ship before... it looked very big... everybody was very excited, we went down to the cabin and that's when my mother said to my father that she had made up her mind quite firmly that she would not go to bed in that ship, she would...
The Loss of the Titanic: I Survived the Titanic
I Survived the Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
A grieving world has already recognised Lawrence Beesley as the chief recorder of the Titanic wreck. The sports master at an English public school, who was going West for a tennis tournament, he had no special qualifications for performing the task that fell to him alone out of nearly a thousand survivors...
Black Markers
Edinburgh's Dark History Told Through its Cemeteries
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Edinburgh has a unique history, darker and more unexpected than you might imagine. Fortunately, it also has a set of graveyards to match. Ancient, modern, beautiful, haunted – they are the perfect reflection of the city’s amazing past with astonishing stories of their own. Greyfriars Graveyard...
by Derek Tait
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
For over seventy-five years, Butlin's have been entertaining families of all ages. Billy Butlin opened his first holiday camp in Skegness in 1936 and continued to expand with camps at Clacton, Ayr, Pwllheli, Bognor Regis, Mosney, Minehead and Barry Island. In post-war Britain, families could enjoy...
Eyam
Plague Village
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In September 1665, plague was inadvertentlytransported from London to Eyam in Derbyshire on a consignment of cloth. This small country village subsequently became famous for its decision to instate a A ecordon sanitaireA f, isolaoiing itself to prevent the disease from spreading. Much of EyamA fs...
by John Christopher
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In addition to his high-profile railway lines, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was engineer to a number of minor and branch lines including those from Slough to Windsor, Didcot to Oxford and from there via the OWWW - generally known as the 'Old Worse & Worse' - across to Moreton, Evesham, Pershore and...
Bradshaw's Guide London to Birmingham
On Stephenson's Tracks - Volume 9
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The London & Birmingham Railway was the first major line in Britain and it was the greatest achievement of its engineer, Robert Stephenson, the man who, together with his father George, had set the age of the railway in motion with their pioneering achievements. The route presented a number of...
by Robert Bard
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Whitechapel, situated in London's famous East End, was so-named after a chapel dedicated to St Mary that was destroyed during the Second World War. While sixteenth-century Whitechapel was home to numerous foundries, breweries and tanneries by the mid-eighteenth century poverty and overpopulation had...
From Ocean Liner to Cruise Ship
The Marine Art of Harley Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Harley Crossley paints for the major shipping lines, with his work adorning many cruise ships. His artwork is the signature painting of Queen Victoria, the new Cunarder, due December 2010. Author available for signings and demonstrations. Harley Crossley is one of Britain's foremost marine artists...
1950s Childhood Spangles, Tiddlywinks and The Clitheroe Kid
Spangles, Tiddlywinks and the Clitheroe Kid
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the local corner shop. There was no pre-packed food, frozen...