Saints and sorcerers, haunted caves and bloody battles, fairy mounds and forsaken harpers – Argyll is teeming with folk tales.
1364: The plague has returned and fear fills the air as the pestilence claims its first victims in Chesterfield. When the local priest vanishes, John the Carpenter believes the man is simply scared – until he discovers a body left in an empty house.
Folk tales from Norfolk, especially selected for children by a professional storyteller
This disturbing story reveals not only the inner workings of the SS, but its paramount role in the mass murder of Europe's Jews, homosexuals and gypsies, its organisation of the death squads and the military campaigns undertaken by the Waffen SS.
A new edition with an updated gazetteer and filmography
Environmental archaeology
Recreating the day-to-day life of the citys inhabitants on the eve of the eruption of AD 79
Containing images and information about pubs in the area of Burton Upon Trent, describing the history which is linked to this historical town.
Roads in Roman Britain
Based on experimental archaeology at the author's world-famous research settlement in Cornwall, this book describes the ingredients of prehistoric cooking and the methods of food preparation.
An oral history of Brentwood
A history of Lincoln