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Britain's Railways from the Air
eBooks & eAudiosBy Rob Higgins. Rob Higgins shows how taking the aerial route gives unique insights into the history and workings of Britain's railways. The...
Carps, the Rugby World Cup's Father: The Biography of John Kendall-Carpenter
eBooks & eAudiosBy Steve Tomlin. John Kendall-Carpenter was a truly extraordinary man. He captained the England rugby team many times in the early 1950s, wh...
Edward III's Faithful Knight: Walter Mauny and His Legacy
eBooks & eAudiosBy Stephen Porter. Sir Walter Mauny (sometimes 'Manny') was described as Edward III's 'faithful knight'. He distinguished himself as a soldi...
The Life and Death of Mary, Queen of Scots
eBooks & eAudiosBy Jan-Marie Knights. Queen of Scots at six days old; married at fifteen in Paris to the Dauphin of France; Queen of France at sixteen; wido...
What is Better than a Good Woman? Alice Chaucer, Commoner and Yorkist Matriarch
eBooks & eAudiosBy Michèle Schindler. Granddaughter of Jeoffrey and grandmother to three Yorkist claimants to the throne, Alice Chaucer is one of the most ...
1917: The First World War at Sea in Photographs
eBooks & eAudiosBy Phil Carradice. The year 1917 was dominated by the Russian Revolution and America entering the war. On 3 February, America cut diplomatic...
25 Years of the Class 66
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Jackson. The ubiquitous class 66 loco first emerged on to the UK freight scene in 1998, with many getting their first close-up look ...
A History of Hostelries in Northamptonshire
eBooks & eAudiosBy Peter Hill. This fascinating survey of the public houses of Northamptonshire from the earliest times to the present is culled from a vari...
A Woman's Will: The Changing Lives of British Women, Told Through the Things They Have Left Behind
eBooks & eAudiosBy Viki Holton. Heroines and harlots, political hostesses and mistresses, the women who lived in the great houses, and the thousands more wh...
Around Fairford Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy June Lewis-Jones. Fairford is especially famous among medieval historians for the stainedglass windows of St Mary's church. They are the ...
Arthur's Miscellany: Aspects of King Arthur, From Shields of Power to the Questing Beast
eBooks & eAudiosBy Helmut Nickel. It is likely that this Latin quote is based upon a Welsh source, in which the words for “shoulder” (ysqwyd) and “shi...
A-Z of Beccles: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Barry Darch. The market town of Beccles lies on the River Waveney, close to the Norfolk Broads and floods have been part of its history. ...
A-Z of Bexhill-on-Sea: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Andy Bull. Bexhill may have one of the highest percentages of retired people in the country, but this fascinating town does not deserve i...
A-Z of Bolton: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Dave Burnham. The Lancashire town of Bolton has a rich heritage much of which is derived from its former cotton industry. During the Indu...
A-Z of Bridlington: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Richard M. Jones. Explore the Yorkshire town of Bridlington in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places....
A-Z of Chiswick: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Andy Bull. Chiswick grew from a village on a bend of the River Thames to a fashionable retreat from London in the 18th century, then a su...
A-Z of Ealing: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Andy Bull. Ealing is best known as the Queen of the suburbs, but there is far more to its rich history than that. In the Middle Ages Eali...
A-Z of Evesham: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Stan Brotherton. Evesham grew up on a bend on the River Avon around its famous abbey, one of the largest in the country, and although the...
A-Z of Ilkley: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Mark Hunnebell. There is evidence of human settlement at Ilkley in prehistoric and Roman times but the town grew rapidly in the 19th cent...
A-Z of Lincoln: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Wendy Turner. The cathedral city of Lincoln offers a wealth of history dating from the first century BC settlement of 'Lindon'. In succes...
A-Z of Mumbles and Gower: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Brian E. Davies. Mumbles and the Gower occupy a special place in the history of Wales. The Gower peninsula was the first place in Britain...
A-Z of Nottingham: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Dave Mooney. The largest city in the East Midlands, Nottingham has been an important centre in the area since the Middle Ages. The old Sa...
A-Z of Rochester: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Yvonne Moxley. Rochester's position on the River Medway, near where it joins the Thames, has meant that it has played an important histor...
A-Z of St Helens: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Sue Gerrard. St. Helens has a proud history of innovation, industrialisation, invention and entertainment. It started life as four townsh...
A-Z of Taunton: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Andrea Cowan. Taunton has always had a special and significant place in Somerset's history. Lying on the River Tone between the Quantock,...
A-Z of the Cotswolds: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Sue Hazeldine. The Cotswold Hills run in a large swathe through south central England, chiefly in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, but al...
A-Z of The Wirral: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Les Jones. Bounded by the River Dee and Wales on one side and the River Mersey and Liverpool on the other, the Wirral peninsula has its o...
A-Z of Warwick: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy S. C. Skillman. The county town of Warwick is famous for its magnificent castle rising above the River Avon but there is much else to thi...
A-Z of Worthing: Places-People-History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Kevin Newman. Sussex-born author, teacher and historian Kevin Newman lived and taught in Worthing for a decade and runs Worthing's popula...
Bath: The Postcard Collection
eBooks & eAudiosBy Alan Spree. The spa town of Bath has drawn visitors since the Roman's built baths and a temple at the site of hot springs in the Avon val...
Belgium's Trams and Trolleybuses
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Law. Like most European countries, Belgium's main towns and cities developed their own tramway networks. Those that survive today in...
Bell's Comet: How a Paddle Steamer Changed the Course of History
eBooks & eAudiosBy P. J. G. Ransom. The passenger steamer burst upon the early nineteenth century with all the suddenness and immediate widespread popularit...
Bicester Reflections
eBooks & eAudiosBy Matthew Hathaway. After many years of expansion and redevelopment Bicester has grown and changed considerably from the little Oxfordshire...
Birkenhead from Old Photographs
eBooks & eAudiosBy Ian Collard. Birkenhead From Old Photographs offers a captivating glimpse into the history of Birkenhead, providing the reader with a vis...
Bournemouth at War
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Needham. Bournemouth was originally a deserted heathland on England's South Coast until the area was developed as a health resort in...
Bournemouth: The Biography
eBooks & eAudiosBy Charles H. Mate. Founded in 1810 by Lewis Tregonwell, Bournemouth was originally a deserted heathland, home to fishermen and smugglers. I...
BR Blue: The North in Focus
eBooks & eAudiosBy Stephen Owens. From 1978 onwards, during the period often referred to as BR Blue, Stephen Owens was able to photograph for posterity some...
Breverton's First World War Curiosities
eBooks & eAudiosBy Terry Breverton. A remarkable compendium of oddities, curiosities and little-known facts from the Great War What was a trench rabbit? Wha...
Britain's DMUs: 1966-1985
eBooks & eAudiosBy George Woods. Diesel Multiple Units, or DMUs, were first designed and introduced in the 1950s, but it wasn't until the following decade t...
Brunel in Cornwall
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Christopher. Cornwall marks the extreme south-western extent of Brunel's kingdom and the county is surprisingly rich in his works. T...
Burlington Northern: The Final Years
eBooks & eAudiosBy Mike Danneman. The 1970 merger of Northern Pacific; Great Northern; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; and Spokane, Portland & Seattle, create...
Burma: A Soldier's Campaign in 20 Objects
eBooks & eAudiosBy David Meara. Captain John Alexander served in the Royal Engineers, and was posted to the 17th Indian Division, known as the Black Cats, w...
Bury St Edmunds Through Time Revisited
eBooks & eAudiosBy Martyn Taylor. Originally called Bedricesworth, pilgrims came to worship at the shrine containing the martyred King Edmund, thus lending ...
Buses of Skye and the Western Isles
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Sinclair. In the 1960s, many of the bus services in Scotland's Western Isles, from Lewis and Harris in the north down to Islay in th...
C&T Harris (Calne): An Illustrated History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Dee La Vardera. This is the story of an empire founded on pigs. It tells of how a small town on the River Marden, once prosperous from th...
Cameron's Engines: More Stories from the Support Crew
eBooks & eAudiosBy Michael Mather. Michael Mather, author of 60009 Union of South Africa: Stories of the Support Crew, returns with another book celebrating...
Cardiff: The Biography
eBooks & eAudiosBy Dic Mortimer. Cardiff has an incredibly rich history, from its foundation as a Roman fort through its Norman occupation to its establishm...
Cheshire Murders and Misdemeanours
eBooks & eAudiosBy Paul Hurley and Rose Hurley. In the 19th and early 20th centuries Cheshire was a thriving part of the North West of England. Bordered by ...
Chipping Norton Railway
eBooks & eAudiosBy Alan Watkins and Brenda Morris. The Banbury & Cheltenham Direct Railway, which the Chipping Norton Railway is a part of, developed in sev...
Cirencester: A History and Guide
eBooks & eAudiosBy Alan Welsford and Jean Welsford. Today, Cirencester is a small market town. Once it was the second largest city in Roman Britain. At othe...
Coach Styles 1950s–1990s
eBooks & eAudiosBy Tim Machin. Coach styles at the start of the 1950s were still very traditional. All that was about to change with the introduction of the...
Cramond Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Dods and William Scholes. Cramond is situated in the north-west of Edinburgh, on the east bank of the River Almond where it flows in...
Crane Locomotives
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Woodhams. The first cranes mounted on railway wheels were hand operated, but by the mid-nineteenth century, several builders had fit...
Deal Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Robert Turcan. The history of Deal has been shaped by its position on the extreme eastern coastline of Kent. Close to France, it was of s...
Devonport Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Derek Tait. Devonport was built up around the dockyard in the late 1600s. Much was destroyed in the Second World War but iconic buildings...
East Grinstead Through a Lens
eBooks & eAudiosBy David Gould. This new compilation of photographs of East Grinstead, its locality and people, comprises 180 unpublished images, mostly dat...
Edenfield Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Simpson. For more than 130 years, photographers have been recording life in Edenfield, Turn, Stubbins, Irwell Vale and Ewood Bridge....
Edinburgh: The Postcard Collection
eBooks & eAudiosBy Jack Gillon. Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, has been central to Scottish life and its history over the centuries. It is the seat of ...
Ely Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Pamela Blakeman. Ely Cathedral, situated on a low hill and visible for miles across the surrounding flat Fen countryside, continues to pr...
Epsom & Ewell Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Jeremy Harte. Epsom and Ewell have been attracting visitors since Henry VIII built his lost Palace of Nonsuch in the Surrey countryside. ...
Euston Station Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Christopher. Built as the London terminus of the London & Birmingham Railway in July 1837, Euston was London's first intercity railw...
Falmouth Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Michael Bradley. Falmouth, situated on the beautiful River Fal, and with one of the finest natural harbours in the world, developed and p...
Faversham Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Robert Turcan. Faversham's many natural advantages attracted settlers from earliest times. The surrounding farmland is most productive wi...
Felixstowe Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Michael Rouse. Felixstowe owes its existence to the 19th-century fashion for seaside holidays when the gentry and businessmen chose to bu...
Fife Buses From Alexanders (Fife) to Stagecoach
eBooks & eAudiosBy Walter Burt. Fife Scottish was established in the 1960s as part of the Scottish Bus Group, a state-owned company which operated bus servi...
Footpaths: A British History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Tom King. Britain's footpaths and bridleways form a gossamer web over the face of the land. These tiny byways, marked by their lines of s...
Geoffrey Guy's War: Memoirs of a Spitfire Pilot 1941-46
eBooks & eAudiosBy Geoffrey Guy. Geoffrey's memoir opens in May 1940, when he was eighteen years old and his grammar school in Kent was being evacuated to S...
Going Underground: Birmingham
eBooks & eAudiosBy Anthony Poulton-Smith. Beneath the surface of the country's second largest city lies a little-known world that encompasses the history of...
Going Underground: Bury St Edmunds
eBooks & eAudiosBy Martyn Taylor. At the heart of the historic Suffolk market town of Bury St Edmunds is the ruined eleventh-century abbey. The magnificent ...
Going Underground: Edinburgh
eBooks & eAudiosBy Jan-Andrew Henderson. Edinburgh isn't like other cities. Certainly, it has underground rail tunnels and hidden passageways - but also a l...
Greater Manchester Buses 1986-2006
eBooks & eAudiosBy Keith A. Jenkinson. Manchester and its surrounds, such as Bolton, Wigan, Rochdale, Oldham, and Stockport, have always been a haven for bu...
Hants & Dorset: A National Bus Company
eBooks & eAudiosBy Michael Hitchen. As part of the National Bus Company, Hants & Dorset Motor Service once served a large diverse area, stretching from the ...
Hospitals of London
eBooks & eAudiosBy Veronika Chambers, Fred Chambers, and Rob Higgins. Since the eighteenth century, the hospitals of London have played a leading role in th...
Ilkley and The Great War
eBooks & eAudiosBy Caroline Brown and Mark Hunnebell. The Yorkshire spa town of Ilkley is a popular tourist destination famous for its moor and literature f...
Illustrated Tales of Kent
eBooks & eAudiosBy Naomi Dickins. From the wooded depths of the Wealden Forest to the fortified cliffs of the Channel coast and from the high hills of the N...
Illustrated Tales of Wiltshire
eBooks & eAudiosBy Eddy Greenfield. Wiltshire's very landscape is steeped in folklore and mythology, with almost every hill, standing stone and barrow havin...
In & Around Winchcombe Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy H. Aldred and Tim Curr. Winchcombe, once a royal Saxon borough, lies in the secluded valley of the infant River Isbourne in the North Cot...
In & Around York District Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Paul Chrystal and Simon Crossley. A fascinating and informative look at one of Europe's finest cities and some of the delightful villages...
Isle of Man Railways 140th Anniversary 1874-2014
eBooks & eAudiosBy Gordon Edgar. The Isle of Man has a rich transport heritage and once boasted the largest narrow gauge network in Britain with eight railw...
Isleham Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Vernon Place. Isleham is a busy and active village extending from the limestone subsoil of the 'highlands' down into the (now shrinking) ...
Jowetts of the 1920s
eBooks & eAudiosBy Noel Stokoe. Based in Idle, near Bradford, the Jowett car was the result of two brothers' engineering skills. Put into production before ...
Land Girl: A Manual for Volunteers in the Women's Land Army
eBooks & eAudiosBy W. E. Shewell-Cooper. A fabulous slice of wartime nostalgia, a facsimile edition of the manual used by the Land Girls during the Second W...
Letters from Normandy
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Mercer. 'We recognised the place from the newsreels. There was a large desk covered with dust. An ornamental chandelier hung low fro...
Lightships: Their Design, Development and Diversity
eBooks & eAudiosBy Anthony Lane. A lavishly illustrated history of lightships, written by an authority on the subject. Rare images and detailed information ...
Linlithgow Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Bruce Jamieson. Linlithgow, once the county town of Linlithgowshire, is now the ‘Jewel in the Crown' of West Lothian. Its medieval pala...
Liverpool Cowkeepers
eBooks & eAudiosBy Dave Joy. The mid-1800s witnessed a mass exodus from the Pennine ‘Dales' as the then latest generation of farmers and miners sought a n...
Lost Battlefields of Wales
eBooks & eAudiosBy Martin Hackett. The rugged but beautiful land of Wales was a refuge for the ancient Britons as waves of invaders attacked and settled oth...
Lost Bideford & District
eBooks & eAudiosBy Julia Barnes, Anthony Barnes, and Peter Christie. Bideford is an historic port on the RiverTorridge in north Devon. In the sixteenth cent...
Lost Coventry
eBooks & eAudiosBy David McGrory. Coventry has been one of the most important cities in England since the Middle Ages. During the 18th and 19th centuries Co...
Lost London
eBooks & eAudiosBy Tim Brown. Fully illustrated description of London's well known, and lesser known, places that have been lost over recent decades.
Lost Portsmouth
eBooks & eAudiosBy Charles Close. Located mainly across Portsea Island on the South coast, the city of Portsmouth is best-known for its maritime heritage an...
Lost South Shields
eBooks & eAudiosBy Eileen Burnett. The coastal town of South Shields, lying on the south of the mouth of the River Tyne grew massively during the Industrial...
Lost Truro
eBooks & eAudiosBy Christine Parnell and Sheila Richardson. The cathedral city of Truro is a major administrative and commercial centre in Cornwall. Histori...
Lost Wolverhampton
eBooks & eAudiosBy Alec Brew. Wolverhampton in the West Midlands was granted city status in 2000 but its origins lie in Anglo Saxon England. During the Midd...
Loughborough Pubs
eBooks & eAudiosBy Lynne Dyer. As a market town conveniently located on major transport routes, Loughborough historically has offered visitors and inhabitan...
Lowdham, Caythorpe & Gunthorpe Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Lowdham Local History Society. Lowdham is a village in Nottinghamshire between Nottingham and Southwell. Lowdham is in the Newark and She...
Lowestoft & the Suffolk Coast Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Michael Rouse. Lowestoft, on the Sunrise Coast, is as far east as you can be in the United Kingdom without getting your feet wet. Once a ...
Lymington Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Jude James and Roland Stott. Lymington has long been in need of an illustrated history worthy of its past. From a Saxon settlement onward...
Madeley Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Tony Lancaster. Madeley parish is situated in the north-west corner of Staffordshire. It is set in an attractive landscape of hills and m...
Main Line Steam Around London: The Preservation Years Since 1968
eBooks & eAudiosBy Malcolm Batten. On 11 August 1968 BR bade farewell to standard gauge steam with the famous Fifteen Guinea Special. A steam ban was placed...
March Traction Depot
eBooks & eAudiosBy Mark Foreman. March is a small market town in the fens, about thirty miles from Cambridge. The arrival of the railways transformed March ...
Margate Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Anthony Lee, John Robinson, and Janet Robinson. Margate was one of the first English seaside resorts. From the 1730s it set out to attrac...
Mayfair Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Brian Girling. Mayfair is named after the annual fortnight-long May Fair that took place on the site that is Shepherd Market today. Until...
MGR Coal Trains
eBooks & eAudiosBy Mike Rhodes. As electricity became more widely used to power and light Britain's towns and cities a number of municipal boroughs built th...
Millstones of the Pennines and North West England
eBooks & eAudiosBy David Johnson. Ever since people began cultivating cereal crops 10,000 years ago grain had to be ground down, or milled, into flour to ma...
Milton Regis Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Clancy. Milton Regis, a suburb of Sittingbourne, has had a colourful and eventful history. In the centre of Milton Regis the royal a...
Modern Traction in the North of England
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Whiteley. A photographic survey of modern traction on the railways in the North of England from the 1970s to the 1990s....
Mosaics in Roman Britain
eBooks & eAudiosBy Anthony Beeson. This book covers the development of mosaics in Britain from the invasion to the end of Roman Britain. The technical side ...
Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt: An Eyewitness History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Jonathan North. In July 1798 Napoleon invaded Egypt, landing an army in the stifling heat of a North African summer. His invasion came as...
National Express: The Journey of an Iconic Brand
eBooks & eAudiosBy Peter Robinson and Harry Cameron. First appearing in 1972, National Express coaches have become a familiar site on the UK's roads, and ar...
Newton Mearns Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Graeme Smith and Anne Robertson. With one foot in the countryside and the other connected to the metropolis, Newton Mearns is the souther...
No Stopping in the North of Britain: From Multiple Railway Stations to None
eBooks & eAudiosBy Patrick Bennett. During the railway mania of the nineteenth century many places gained more than one station, and not just in the big cit...
NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat: Canada’s Secret Electronic Air War
eBooks & eAudiosBy Gordon A.A. Wilson. Explore the history of the Canadian air defence of North America during the Cold War.NORAD and the Soviet Nuc...
Norfolk Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Michael Rouse. The county of Norfolk in East Anglia has a long and rich history. A settlement for thousands of years, the county has seen...
North Staffordshire Railway
eBooks & eAudiosBy Anthony Dawson. The Knotty was one of the most beloved of Britain's pre-grouping companies.Centered on Stoke-on-Trent, at one tim...
North Western Railway of India
eBooks & eAudiosBy Alon Siton. The North Western Railway of India (NWR) was one of British India's largest railway systems. Created out of the merger of sev...
Norwich: A Potted History
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Ling. During the Iron Age, much of East Anglia was under the control of the Iceni tribe, whose queen Boudicca is believed to have be...
Now That's What I Call Bournemouth
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Needham. The sixties, seventies and eighties were decades of great change. Many towns and cities were redeveloped with projects that...
P & O Orient Liners of the 1950s and 1960s
eBooks & eAudiosBy William H. Miller. The 1950s and 1960s was the last golden age of ocean liners. It was an age of many modern, superbly designed ships tha...
P-51 Mustang
eBooks & eAudiosBy David Oliver. One of the foremost fighter aircraft of the Second World War.Designed and produced by North American Aviation in re...
Paras: Voices of the British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
eBooks & eAudiosBy Roger Payne. This book is full of untold short stories of men who created a legend, the legend of the British airborne forces during the ...
Pastimes and Pleasures in the Time of Jane Austen
eBooks & eAudiosBy Sarah Jane Downing. Just as the fashions of Jane Austen's era define it as a unique moment in history, so do the pleasures and pastimes. ...
Pimlico Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Brian Girling. This book takes a photographic tour of one of the City of Westminster's more distinctive areas, and with a wealth of archi...
Pontypridd Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Alun Seward and David Swidenbank. Pontypridd Through Time portrays the history of this iconic market town that sits at the gateway to thr...
Port of Tilbury in the 60s and 70s
eBooks & eAudiosBy Campbell McCutcheon. The 1960s saw a gradual movement of shipping from central London and the quays, wharves and docks of the upper River...
Portsmouth Transport from Old Photographs
eBooks & eAudiosBy Ron Brown. In the 1940s, Doris Day had a No. 1 hit record with Sentimental Journey. This would indeed be an apt alternative title for thi...
Prehistoric Gloucestershire: Forests and Vales and High Blue Hills
eBooks & eAudiosBy Timothy Darvill. From the camps and caves occupied by hunter-gatherer groups visiting the area during the last Ice Age, through the long ...
Rails Around Preston
eBooks & eAudiosBy Mike Rhodes. The first railway to reach Preston was the North Union (NU) with a line from Wigan in October 1838. By the turn of the ninet...
Railways of Ireland: 180th Anniversary 1834-2014
eBooks & eAudiosBy C. Winchester. At its peak in the 1920s Ireland had some 3,500 route miles of track, today it has less than half that amount. By the begi...
Railways of the Isle of Wight: 150th Anniversary 1864-2014
eBooks & eAudiosBy P. C. Allen. 'There is probably no place in the British Isles that could offer a more attractive study to one interested in railway worki...
Rawtenstall Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Kathy Fishwick. In the early Industrial Revolution, the small settlement of Rawtenstall became a crossroads for trade routes and steadily...
Redditch Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Ray Jones. Redditch is historically known because of the success of its needle, fishing tackle and cycle factories. Unfortunately most of...
Rickmansworth, Croxley Green & Chorleywood Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Cooper. Rickmansworth, Croxley Green and Chorleywood Through Time takes the reader on a nostalgic journey back to an age when the pa...
Ripley & the Golden Valley Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Jill Armitage. The Ripley region owes its growth to the area's natural resources of coal, iron, oil and clay. The world-renowned Butterle...
RM70: Seventy Years of a London Icon
eBooks & eAudiosBy Malcolm Batten. The Routemaster bus has become synonymous with London and is recognised the world over. Although fewer were built than of...
Scottish Steam Album
eBooks & eAudiosBy Brian Morrison. In the 1950s there were still train services to most parts of the country, and steam was everywhere. Many of the locomoti...
Shoreham Airport: An Illustrated History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Peter C. Brown. Shoreham is the oldest airport in the UK, aviator Harold Piffard first flying from there in 1910, although the aerodrome ...
South Jersey Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Keith E. Morgan. The largest of the British Channel Islands, Jersey is the most southerly island of the British Isles. It is located 84 m...
Southampton in the 1980s: Ten Years that Changed a City
eBooks & eAudiosBy Garth Groombridge. When the author first moved to Southampton from Middlesex in 1985, he thought it was rather like a provincial town in ...
Spitfire Voices: Life as a Spitfire Pilot in the Words of the Veterans
eBooks & eAudiosBy Dilip Sarkar. Spitfire fighter pilots tell their extraordinary stories of combat during the Second World War. SPITFIRE VOICES represents ...
Steam Around Leeds in the 1960s
eBooks & eAudiosBy Keith Platt. The 1960s saw the final hurrah of steam on the railways – the final period of steam-powered locomotives dominating the mai...
Steam Railways: Final Operations in the Southern Region and the Early Preservation Years
eBooks & eAudiosBy David Reed. This book contains previously unpublished photographs from the collection of David Reed, who set out to record the end of ste...
Tally-Ho: RAF Tactical Leadership in the Battle of Britain, July 1940
eBooks & eAudiosBy Patrick G. Eriksson. Have the squadron leaders over southern England in that long autumn of 1940, and their supporting flight commanders ...
The British Takeover of Assam: Tea, Hill Tribes and Transportation in the Nineteenth Century
eBooks & eAudiosBy Caroline Keen. The book follows the huge British expansion into the Indian territory of Assam during the nineteenth century and the impac...
The Crimes of the Gestapo: From the Closed Files of MI14
eBooks & eAudiosBy Andrew Cook. A unique account of the Gestapo through the eyes of British intelligence. The book also reveals that the Gestapo was not as ...
The Fall of Christendom: The Road to Acre 1291
eBooks & eAudiosBy W. B. Bartlett. In the early middle ages the Christian presence in the Middle East took a series of blows from often superior Muslim forc...
The Fifteen Guinea Special: The End of Steam and the Story of Preservation on the Mainline
eBooks & eAudiosBy Ian Hardman. The Fifteen Guinea Special was the last steam-hauled British Rail passenger service on August 11, 1968. A day later, the onc...
The History of Leicester in 100 People
eBooks & eAudiosBy Stephen Butt. From Verecunda, a girl in love with a Roman gladiator, who etched his name on a love token, to the footballer and televisio...
The Hot Trod: A History of the Anglo-Scottish Border
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Sadler. The 2014 Scottish independence debate and the re-ignition of the SNP's call for a 2nd vote in the wake of Brexit and indeed ...
The House of Godwin: The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Saxon Dynasty
eBooks & eAudiosBy Michael John Key. The most powerful dynasty behind the throne of Anglo-Saxon England, shedding new light on events such as the Battle of ...
The King's England: Norfolk: The Classic Guide
eBooks & eAudiosBy Arthur Mee. This classic guide examines in detail the vast landscape and the intricate history of Norfolk, from the Norfolk Broads to the...
The London of Sherlock Holmes
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Christopher. 221B Baker Street was the fictional home of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle's 'consulting detective'. He penned 56 ...
The London to Brighton Historic Commercial Vehicle Run: 1996-2021
eBooks & eAudiosBy Malcolm Batten. The London–Brighton Historic Commercial Vehicle run is one of the premier events in the calendar for preserved commerci...
The Plantagenet Socialite
eBooks & eAudiosBy Jan-Marie Knights. Jan-Marie Knights documents the social calendar of Plantagenent high society in a series of bite-sized chunks. The boo...
The Regeneration Game: Birmingham Jewellery Quarter's Revival
eBooks & eAudiosBy Andy Munro. This book charts the changes in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter over the last twenty years, and is the first work to look beyo...
The Stroudwater and Thames and Severn Canals From Old Photographs, Vol. 2
eBooks & eAudiosBy Edwin Cuss and Mike Mills. Since the development of photography in the middle of the last century, the picture of our past provided by th...
The Wear & Derwent Railway
eBooks & eAudiosBy Rob Langham. The Stockton & Darlington Railway Company's take-over of half of the 1834 Stanhope & Tyne route, under the guise of the Wear...
The Windrush Valley
eBooks & eAudiosBy Mark Child. The Windrush is the largest of the Cotswold rivers. Running for about forty miles through parts of Gloucestershire and Oxford...
The World's Last Steam Locomotives in Industry: The 21st Century
eBooks & eAudiosBy Gordon Edgar. Following on from his popular series examining industrial steam in regions of the UK, Gordon Edgar looks at a series of fas...
Thirsk & Sowerby from Old Photographs: A Second Selection
eBooks & eAudiosBy Cooper Harding. This selection of over 200 photographs offers a further perspective on the life and times of Thirsk and its surrounding d...
Thomas Hardy's Dorset Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Steve Wallis. Thomas Hardy celebrated the glorious county of Dorset through his writings. Today our vision of Dorset is very much that fi...
Thornton Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Alan Whitworth. Thornton, on the outskirts of Bradford, was actually the birthplace of the Brontes, not the West Riding moorland village ...
Thornton-le-Dale Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Alan Whitworth. The picturesque village of Thornton Dale was voted the prettiest village in Yorkshire at the beginning of the tourist era...
Thorpe Hesley, Scholes & Wentworth Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Mel and Joan Jones. The old village of Thorpe Hesley, once the home of nail-makers, coal miners, farmers and smallholders, has been engul...
Tipton Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Keith Hodgkins. Tipton has been described as the quintessence of the Black Country. In the early nineteenth century its coal mines were s...
Traditional Fishing Boats of Europe
eBooks & eAudiosBy Mike Smylie. For hundreds of years the design of fishing boats has followed traditional methods. Mike Smylie, author of Traditional Fishi...
US Naval Aviation in the 1980s: Atlantic and Pacific Fleet Air Stations
eBooks & eAudiosBy Adrian Symonds. The final decade of the Cold War saw unprecedented peacetime expansion of the US Navy, including Naval Aviation. Presiden...
Villagers: 750 Years of Life in an English Village
eBooks & eAudiosBy James Brown. Most of us now live in towns and cities, but until relatively recently the majority of English people were villagers. What w...
Villages Around Colchester Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Patrick Denney. Much has been written about Colchester and its rich and varied heritage, but rather less attention has been given to the ...
West London Line
eBooks & eAudiosBy Andy Gibbs. Wonderful previously unpublished images celebrating this cult London rail line. Covers the route between Clapham Junction and...
West Midland Murders
eBooks & eAudiosBy Michael Posner. Located in central England, the West Midlands is a distinctive industrial region encompassing numerous ancient towns and ...
Weston-Super-Mare Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Stephen Butt. Until the railways arrived, Westonsuper- Mare was a town without a history. From a little fishing village with just a handf...
Whitby Abbey & Abbey Headland Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Alan Whitworth. Dominating the seaport of Whitby from its headland site, the imposing and brooding ruins of Whitby Abbey date from the se...
White Star Line: A Photographic History
eBooks & eAudiosBy Janette McCutcheon. In 1871, a bright new star appeared on the Liverpool shipping scene. Like a phoenix, the White Star Line grew out of ...
Wigton Through Time
eBooks & eAudiosBy Trevor Grahamslaw. This is a fascinating and diverse collection of images from the author's extensive photographic archive recalling Wigt...
Worcestershire's Motoring Heritage
eBooks & eAudiosBy Martin P. Watts. Worcestershire can proudly boast that it is the home of the British motor industry. Barely three years after Karl Benz h...
Worktown's People: Mass Observation in Bolton
eBooks & eAudiosBy Dave Burnham. The Mass Observation survey of life in Bolton between 1937 and 1940 is justly celebrated today. The aim was to observe and ...
BMW Mini
eBooks & eAudiosBy James Taylor. How BMW successfully reinvented the Mini. This is a complete picture of one of the world's most successful cars.Lau...
Britain's DMUs: 1986-2022
eBooks & eAudiosBy George Woods. By the 1980s, earlier DMUs were coming to the end of their useful lives and BR were introducing the first of the next gener...
Buckinghamshire Buses
eBooks & eAudiosBy R. J. Cook and K. C. Close. The book will tell the story of the omnibus as it developed from its roots in stage coach travel across Bucki...
Jersey Buses
eBooks & eAudiosBy Ian Jordan. This book covers the operations of Jersey Motor Transport from the late 1980s, as well as looking at how the island's bus sce...
Nottingham's Gas Buses
eBooks & eAudiosBy Scott Poole. In 2018, five gas buses using Scania NU280D chassis with stylish AD E40D MMC City bodywork were presented by Nottingham City...
Railways Around Bedfordshire
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Jackson. For many long-distance rail travellers, the county of Bedfordshire is a part of the UK passed at speed on an express headin...
Royal Encounters
eBooks & eAudiosBy Paul Ratcliffe. For many, the royal family hold a special mystique, stemming from their ability to transform each of their numerous visit...
Tankers on British Roads
eBooks & eAudiosBy Carl Johnson. Road tankers come in many forms, certain goods very often dictating the type and shape. The transport industry has adapted ...
Transition on the Western Railways: HST to IET
eBooks & eAudiosBy Tim Squires. The Western Region has been going through a period of great transition, and this book aims to document these changes, such a...
What's on the Grille? Car Badges and Marques
eBooks & eAudiosBy Michael Burgess. Once upon a time it was easy to tell one make of car from another. The shape of the grille or a distinctive badge was al...
York Buses Since Deregulation
eBooks & eAudiosBy Keith A. Jenkinson. The transport scene in the historic city of York has seen numerous changes since 1986 with the breakup of the Nationa...
Devon Recipes
eBooks & eAudiosBy Catherine Rothwell. 'To discover the real Devonian you have to talk about food,' claims Catherine Rothwell in her introduction, and true ...
Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film
eBooks & eAudiosAlthough overlooked by most narratives of American cinema history, films made for purposes outside of theatrical entertainment dominated twe...
Ghostbusters Collectables
eBooks & eAudiosBy Matt MacNabb. Featuring a foreward by Dan Aykroyd, this book details toys & collectables from the 1984 movie and Real Ghostbusters Kenner...
William Barron: The Victorian Landscape Gardener
eBooks & eAudiosBy Tamsin Liddle and Peter Robinson. William Barron is one of the unsung heroes of British garden design, often overshadowed by other famous...
The Origins of the Football League: The First Season 1888/89
eBooks & eAudiosBy Mark Metcalf. On Saturday 8 September 1888, League football kicked off. Twelve clubs had combined to play regular fixtures and the result...
The United Tour of Manchester
eBooks & eAudiosBy Tom Clare and Iain McCartney. Over the years, the history of Manchester United has been well documented. This publication, however, is a ...
The World Water Speed Record: The Fast and the Forgotten
eBooks & eAudiosBy Roy Calley. The quest for the Water Speed Record is one of the most dangerous, least forgiving and most unheralded of endeavours. Defined...
Aylesbury History Tour
eBooks & eAudiosBy Charles Close. Aylesbury is Buckinghamshire's county town and has a rich history. Excavations in the 1980s uncovered an Iron Age hill for...
Aylesbury in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Paul Rabbitts. Aylesbury, the county town of Buckinghamshire, started as a Saxon settlement called Aegel's burgh. By medieval times it ha...
Bexhill-on-Sea in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy David Hatherell and Alan Starr. For much of its history, Bexhill was a small rural town on a hill in East Sussex, a mile or two from the ...
Brewing in Hertfordshire
eBooks & eAudiosBy Martyn Cornell. In 1636 the poet and traveller John Taylor wrote: “Hertfordshire is a County that surpasseth all other Countries and Co...
Bungay History Tour
eBooks & eAudiosBy Christopher Reeve. Bungay History Tour offers a fascinating insight into the fascinating history of this town in Suffolk. Author Christop...
Carlisle in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Paul Rabbitts. Originally established as a Roman settlement to serve the forts along Hadrian's Wall, the Cumbrian city of Carlisle has a ...
Celebrating Cambridge
eBooks & eAudiosBy Susie Boulton. The original settlement of Cambridge was founded on the banks of the River Granta (later Cam) and the river is still an in...
Celebrating Cork
eBooks & eAudiosBy Kieran McCarthy. Situated in the south-west of Ireland, the port city of Cork is right on the very edge of Western Europe and has always ...
Celebrating Portsmouth
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Sadden. Portsmouth has been one of the country's most important port cities for centuries. Nicknamed Pompey, as is its famous footba...
Celebrating Southampton
eBooks & eAudiosBy Martin Brisland. Southampton has been a major port on the South Coast of England since the Middle Ages. As a gateway to the country, over...
Celebrating Sunderland
eBooks & eAudiosBy Marie Gardiner. In our fast-paced lives, it can be hard to stop and appreciate all the great things about the places where we live. Celeb...
Chelsea in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Lucy McMurdo. Chelsea has always been a district beloved by the influential and wealthy. Initially a small riverside village that centere...
Chichester in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Eddy Greenfield. Chichester in 50 Buildings explores the history of this city in West Sussex through a selection of its most interesting ...
City of London in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Lucy McMurdo. Despite a history stretching back almost 2,000 years, the City of London is one of the world's most modern, booming and yet...
Colwyn Bay History Tour
eBooks & eAudiosBy Graham Roberts. A new town established in the 1800s, Colwyn Bay thrived with the coming of the railway, growing over the last century int...
Country Houses of the Marches
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Kinross. The Marches – the border area between Wales and England – was semi-independent during much of the Middle Ages and today...
Dover in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Paul Harris. Once known as the 'Key to England', Dover is one of the country's most important ports and has been at the forefront of this...
Dunstable in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Paul Rabbitts. The Bedfordshire town of Dunstable can trace its origins back to Roman times and the building of Watling Street, which cro...
Edinburgh Street Furniture
eBooks & eAudiosBy David Brandon. Edinburgh is now and indeed has for long been a city of stark juxtapositions and piquant contrasts. Historically it is a p...
Esk Valley Railway: A Traveller's Guide
eBooks & eAudiosBy Alan Whitworth. Talk of railways in the North York Moors, brings to mind images of preserved steam trains travelling through beautiful co...
Exploring the River Fowey
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Neale. The third of John Neale's books looking at Cornish rivers takes us down the Fowey, from its source on Bodmin Moor to its estu...
Frome in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Alastair MacLeay. Situated at the eastern end of the Mendip Hills, the Somerset market town of Frome has a wealth of history much of whic...
Gates of the City of London
eBooks & eAudiosBy Alan Brooke. In this book, author Alan Brooke highlights the historic gates of the City of London: Cripplegate, Aldgate, Aldersgate, Bish...
Halifax History Tour
eBooks & eAudiosBy Stephen Gee. While many of Halifax's historic buildings are still present today, this Minster town has developed significantly over the l...
Hampstead & Highgate in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Lucy McMurdo. The two communities of Hampstead and Highgate, perched on London's northern heights, are remarkable for their leafy, atmosp...
Hertford in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Paul Rabbitts and Peter Jeffree. The River Lea and its crossing at Hertford lie at the heart of the town's history. Before the Norman Con...
High Wycombe in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Eddie Brazil. High Wycombe is often looked upon as the archetypal, provincial town; a suburban satellite of London with little or any his...
Irish Ghosts: A Ghost Hunters' Guide
eBooks & eAudiosBy Peter Underwood. THE GHOSTS OF IRELAND are as numerous and interesting as they are varied. Indeed, there have been accounts of a man carr...
Islington & Clerkenwell in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Lucy McMurdo. The London districts of Islington and Clerkenwell are charming to explore. Within their streets are the greatest variety of...
Jersey in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Tracey Radford. The largest of the Channel Islands, Jersey is situated 85 miles from the English coast and 14 miles from France. Even tho...
Kendal History Tour
eBooks & eAudiosBy Billy F.K. Howorth. From the popular Abbot Hall and Kendal Parish Church, to the maze of streets, yards and hidden history, Billy Howorth...
Leicester: The Postcard Collection
eBooks & eAudiosBy Alan Spree. Leicester has long been an important city in the East Midlands. Remains of Roman Leicester can still be seen today as well as...
London's Riverside in Photographs: The Thames From Hampton Court to the Barrier
eBooks & eAudiosBy Franco Pfaller. A stunning collection of photographs along the banks of the River Thames through London from Hampton Court to the Thames ...
London's South Bank in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Louis Berk and Rachel Kolsky. The South Bank has become one of London's most popular cultural destinations. Now a recognised brand, the S...
Newcastle in Photographs
eBooks & eAudiosBy Simon McCabe. Newcastle, which lies on the north bank of the River Tyne, has been a major city in the North East of England since the Mid...
Paranormal Burton upon Trent
eBooks & eAudiosBy Richard O'Connor. Anyone familiar with the town of Burton Upon Trent may associate it with one thing above all else - brewing. Hardly sur...
Paranormal Kent
eBooks & eAudiosBy Robert Bard. In this book Robert Bard takes readers on a spine-tingling journey around Kent to some of its most haunted locations. He dis...
Sale History Tour
eBooks & eAudiosBy Steven Dickens. Sale History Tour offers a fascinating insight into the fascinating history of this town in Greater Manchester. Author St...
Secret Fens
eBooks & eAudiosBy Karen Merrison. The Fens of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Lincolnshire (and a small part of Suffolk) are amazing, beautiful but yet misunde...
Secret Haverfordwest
eBooks & eAudiosBy Patricia Swales Barker. Haverfordwest is the county town of Pembrokeshire. In the Middle Ages, the town grew around its Norman castle and...
Secret Richmond upon Thames
eBooks & eAudiosBy Andy Bull. The town of Richmond grew around the Tudor royal palace by the River Thames. Much of the land was used by the royals for hunti...
Secret Royal Leamington Spa
eBooks & eAudiosBy Graham Sutherland. Although Royal Leamington Spa has its origins several hundred years ago, then known as Leamington Priors, the town onl...
Secret Shepperton: England's Hollywood
eBooks & eAudiosBy Jill Armitage. Secret Shepperton explores the history of the town from its early origins as an Iron Age settlement nestling on the banks ...
Secret Wokingham
eBooks & eAudiosBy Richard Gibbs. The Berkshire town of Wokingham has over 1000 years of history. A history that is interwoven with the bigger story of Engl...
Secret York
eBooks & eAudiosBy Paul Chrystal. Home to the largest medieval gothic cathedral north of the Alps, York is one of Europe's most historically interesting cit...
Shoreditch and Hoxton in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Lucy McMurdo. Shoreditch, including neighbouring Hoxton, has a fascinating history, and contains a magnificent variety of buildings. Many...
Skipton History Tour
eBooks & eAudiosBy Peter Ellwood. Skipton History Tour offers an insight into the fascinating history of this Yorkshire town. Author Peter Ellwood guides us...
Southwark & Blackfriars in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Lucy McMurdo. Situated on opposite sides of the Thames, the ancient districts of Southwark and Blackfriars have played a crucial role in ...
St Austell History Tour
eBooks & eAudiosBy Valerie Jacob. St Austell History Tour takes the reader on a journey through the Cornish town of St Austell, which became the focus of mi...
Stoke-on-Trent Pubs
eBooks & eAudiosBy Mervyn Edwards. The pubs of Stoke are numerous, and each has its own fascinating tale to tell. While many have been lost due to time, mon...
Taunton in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Lynne Cleaver. Taunton is the county town of Somerset. The town has its origins in the Saxon period and was a prime location in the Civil...
The Four Heatons History Tour
eBooks & eAudiosBy Phil Page and Carole Page. The Four Heatons History Tour offers an insight into the fascinating history of the towns of Heaton Moor, Heat...
The Pennines: Trains in the Landscape
eBooks & eAudiosBy David Hayes. The Pennine hills of northern England offer some of the country's finest – and most diverse – landscapes. They have long...
The Settle to Carlisle Line
eBooks & eAudiosBy John Bentley. The railway route between Settle and Carlisle in the North West of England is one of the most scenic lines in Britain. Cros...
Tring in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Paul Rabbitts. People have lived, farmed and traded in the Hertfordshire town of Tring for thousands of years. The Icknield Way, which hu...
Trucks in the Garden of Eden: In Search of Britain's Utopias
eBooks & eAudiosBy Vitali Vitaliev. Ukrainian-born journalist Vitali Vitaliev takes a journey around Britain in search of that most elusive of ideas - utopi...
Welwyn & Welwyn Garden City in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Paul Rabbitts and Peter Jeffree. Situated a mile from the Hertfordshire village of Welwyn, the Garden City was founded in 1920. It was th...
Whitstable History Tour
eBooks & eAudiosBy Kerry Mayo. 'Whitstable is a stirring little town, with strong business proclivities, and a history stretching far back into the remote p...
Wirral Pubs
eBooks & eAudiosBy Les Jones. The Wirral peninsula encompasses a fascinating diversity of places. Bounded by the River Dee in the west and the Mersey Estuar...
Wolverhampton in 50 Buildings
eBooks & eAudiosBy Steve Bower. The city of Wolverhampton was originally a Staffordshire market town and its wealth was built on the woollen trade but durin...
An Unforgiving Place
eBooks & eAudiosBy Claire Kells. In a remote corner of Alaska, Investigative Services Bureau agent Felicity Harland squares off against a mysterious cult le...
