From Roman Fortress to English Town
This is the history of Oxford as you have never encountered it before. One of its principal colleges, meanwhile, doubled as a slaughterhouse — and its richest streets and university edifices backed on to some of the most pestilential slums in England.
Colin Miller chronicles developments of the 1940s and '50s through the eyes of a Norfolk schoolboy and teenager.
Exploring the history behind all sorts of curious and fascinating people, places and objects, this book is sure to delight all who know and love Bournemouth.
A fascinating exploration of Glastonbury’s Grail traditions and Templar connections, uncovering hidden relics, oral traditions, and the mystery of the Shroud’s arrival in England, richly illustrated with original research.
Drawing on a wide variety of historical sources and containing many cases which have never before been published, Halifax Murder & Crime will fascinate everyone interested in true crime and the history of this West Yorkshire town.
Cornwall
Welsh princes have died in its streets, whilst thousands of English soldiers perished just outside the town in one of the most brutal battles ever to take place on... Læs mere
A captivating visual history of Bootle from the 1890s to the 1970s, told through more than 200 rare and previously unpublished photographs.
Bushey, in the ‘Archive Photographs’ series, is a remarkable collection of over 200 old photographs of the ancient community of Bushey, covering the period from the 1860s to the 1960s: the time of the most radical changes in the town’s long history.
A history of Huntingdonshire in the Second World War
Chedworth is one of the few Roman villas in Britain whose remains are open to the public, and this book seeks to explain what these remains mean. The fourth century in Britain was a ‘golden age’ and at the time the Cotswolds were the richest area of Roman Britain.