An accessible history of Leicester from its beginnings to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.
The first biography of the remarkable Janet Taylor, a nineteenth-century navigator and mathematician who left an incredible mark on the male-dominated field of sea navigation
Featuring a variety of rare and unpublished colour photographs, George Woods explores the world of steam locomotives and trains in 1970s South Africa.
This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.
Explore the local town of Devizes in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.
Previously unpublished photographs of the first two decades of the Llangollen Railway being operational.
This collection features images of buses taken throughout most of Northern England from the last few decades.
A revised edition of an accessible introduction to Britain's canals, their history and why they are so important today as a leisure pursuit.
As the fifties faded away, sixties style swept York into the modern age.
Looking at how stone barns have developed to meet the needs of ever-changing farming practices, revealing clues about the rich rural history of the Cotswolds.
A highly readable and meticulously researched account of the Potteries' now largely forgotten aerodrome.
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Newby and Scalby have changed and developed over the last century.