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by Derek Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
The wool trade was the mainstay of the medieval English economy, and no wool was more highly prized than that of the Cotswold sheep: weavers in Flanders and Italy went to endless lengths to secure their supply.
Born Upon the Tide
Stories of Irish Men of the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In this work, maritime and social historian Pat Nolan interviews a wide selection of fishermen, boatbuilders and sailors from across the coastlines of Ireland. What emerges is a picture of a way of life that has changed beyond recognition, and which only lives on in the recollections of these men of the sea.
The Greenie
The History of Warfare Technology in the Royal Navy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
In the Royal Navy vernacular, the term 'greenie' describes the officers and ratings responsible for the electrical engineering functions of the fleet. Electrical engineering has 'driven' the Royal Navy for far longer than one might imagine, from solving the problem of magnetic interference with the...
From Punt to Plough
A History of the Fens
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2003
The counties of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk and Peterborough City Council all lay claim to parts of the Fens. Since Roman times mankind, by his ingenuity, hard work and determination has increased the land mass in this area by one third of the size. It is the largest plain in...
by Nuala Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Take a walk through this county in the heart of Ireland in the entertaining company of professional storyteller Nuala Hayes as she recounts local tales, ancient and modern. Discover stories of ancient heroes and their heroic deeds, along with the murderous crimes of the more criminally inclined, and...
by Kurt Kullmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
THE LITTLE BOOK OF SANDYMOUNT is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about one of Dublin’s most important suburbs.Here you will find out about Sandymount’s streets and buildings, its schools and industries, its proud sporting heritage, and its famous (and occasionally...
by Christine Willison
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Roughly 30,000 years ago, something incredible happened, changing the world forever: an ape-like creature painted a story onto a cave wall. This became the most important invention for that species. It enabled education, science, therapy, politics, religion, ambition, and innumerable forms of entertainment....
Some Kind of Hero
The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Updated to include the road to Bond 25For over 50 years, Albert R. Broccoli’s Eon Productions has navigated the ups and downs of the volatile British film industry, enduring both critical wrath and acclaim in equal measure for its now legendary James Bond series. Latterly, this family-run business...
Dante's Invention
The History Behind Dan Brown's Inferno
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
A biography of Dante from the author of the acclaimed Heloise & Abelard explores Inferno's meaning and how and why it was written, making fascinating companion reading for Dan Brown's forthcoming Inferno The young Dante Alighieri was a love-sick poet who concentrated on writing rarefied, intellectual...
Third Plantagenet
George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
George, Duke of Clarence has had so little written about him, that historians face many questions: Where was he born? What was he like? What set him against his brother Edward IV? He played a central role in the Wars of the Roses—but was he for York or Lancaster? Is the story of his drowning in...
Charles V
The World Emperor
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Charles V (1500-58), King of Aragon, ruler of Castile and Roman Emperor is one of the most interesting and perplexing of the great European monarchs. Son of Philip the Handsome and Juana, Queen of Castile, who was regarded as insane, by the age of nineteen he was the most powerful monarch in Europe....
Lost Prince
The Survival of Richard of York
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
On December 22, 1550 an old bricklayer named Richard Plantagenet was buried at Eastwell in Kent. Unusually for a bricklayer, he had been able to read Latin and, when pressed, he had claimed to be a natural son of King Richard III and to have met him the day before the Battle of Bosworth. Yet had he...
Katyn 1940
The Documentary Evidence of the West's Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
The mass murder of 22,000 Poles by the Soviet NKVD at Katyn is one of the most shocking events of the Second World War and its political implications are still being felt today. Information surrounding Katyn came to light with Russian perestroika, which made it possible to disclose a key document...
Mother Country
Britain's Black Community on the Home Front 1939-45
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Very little attention has been given to black British and West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the "front line" during the Second World War. Yet black people were under fire in cities like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London, and Manchester—and many volunteered as...