Why don't people take more notice of bollards? How often do they stop to look at a coal-hole cover? Why are pub signs largely ignored and Royal Warrants on shops scarcely noticed? Such a grievous sit
In 1906, brothers Benjamin and William Jowett designed and built their first car. Within four years, in 1910, they had started production of the Jowett, an ultra-economy light car in their home town o
Telling the story of the once-ubiquitous Lancashire Nobby, a small fishing smack once found in every harbor from North Wales to the West Coast of Scotland. This inshore boat was used for a variety of
Anne Boleyn entered Henry’s life just as he was seeking to discard his wife, Catherine of Aragon, for failing to give him a son. Henry courted Anne, but she refused to yield to his advances until he p
It was twenty minutes to midnight on Sunday 14 April, when Jack Thayer felt the Titanic lurch to port, a motion followed by the slightest of shocks. Seven-year old Eva Hart barely noticed anything was
This volume examines the legacy of 12 German families who came to rule countries all over Europe, considering why Germans were so successful in producing these dynasties. Thomson explains how German f
In this sixth book about Barra and other southern islands of Scotland's Outer Hebrides, Branigan (emeritus archaeology, Sheffield U.) explores the life of Roderick, who succeeded his father, also Rode
Ripper Murders From Old Photographs is not a standard retelling of the story of the Whitechapel Murders but the tale of historically important photographs connected to the case, discovered by the auth
In 1949, the People's Liberation Army of China sent troops into Tibet. At first, Chinese soldiers behaved respectfully towards the local people, distributing clothes, blankets, tools, medicine and eve
Praise for the hardback published in May 2009:SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE: ‘Totally fascinating’. ANDREW ROBERTS: ‘A triumph of research’.KELVIN MACKENZIE: ‘Exposes the hidden hand behind the Jack the Ripp
Patrick Moore introduces the stars and the night sky to complete beginners and children in this brand new, highly illustrated guide. Using simple terms, he brings the mysteries of the sky to a new aud
Biographical material on Emily BrontA" is scarce. In the past, biographers have taken this as an excuse to portray intuition as fact, creating a confused and inaccurate image of the author of Wutherin
How to fly the legendary fighter plane in combat using the manuals and instructions supplied by the RAF during the Second World War. An amazing array of leaflets, books and manuals were issued by the
In January 1952 Cairo burned in a wave of insurgency against the British as the Suez crisis took hold. Three months earlier, however, the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 had been abrogated, leading to
`Catullus's poems [are] a mixture of the refined and the obscene quite without parallel in literature...a sort of Baudelaire but tougher...Burl's spirited Catullus [contains] lively translations by B
Many books have been written about The Lake Poets - those Romantic geniuses led by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who made their homes in the beautiful north-west corner of England kn
Catherine Howard, the young, vivacious, and wanton fifth wife of Henry VIII, committed adultery and was beheaded. This biography is a study of how chance and personality, morality and adultery, and so
Adding another to the 20 some volumes he has produced about Wales and Welsh history, Breverton offers an encyclopedia of topics that might be mentioned obliquely in a history of Wales but not explaine
The author of The Tudors presents a concise, accessible audience chronicle of the bloody reign of Tudor monarch Henry VIII (1509-1547), which proved to be a turning point in English history. Rex (Refo
George Forty, himself a veteran of the Korean War, uses British Tank Sergeant Jake Wardrop's war diary as the basis for this account of Wardrop's war experiences from 1940 through 1945, when he was ki
In honor of the historic year (2008) in which all three ships were in service, Miller collects color and b&w photos and descriptions of the Cunard line's three Queens: Queen Elizabeth 2, Queen Mar
This was the first book on London’s ghosts, when Peter Underwood was President of the Ghost Club. He is uniquely qualified to write Haunted London, presenting a parade and gazetteer of the psychic phe
Combat aircraft author Bowman offers a history of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and their personnel during war, from their first appearance in World War II and through Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf wars, and
Although the 1987 book on the archaeology of the sites of Catholic abbeys and priories managed by English Heritage (formerly the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) bears the same
It is only recently that the second tier of nobility has been given serious notice by historians. In this biography, archaeologist Soden searches for evidence on Ranulf de Blondeville, sixth earl of C
Historian Wilkinson, presents a biography of the early years of the English king Richard III, about whom there has been serious debate ever since his death in battle against Henry Tudor, who became Ki
On an early February morning in 1692, thirty-eight men, women, and children of the MacDonald clan were massacred at Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands. Their crime was not swearing allegiance to Willia
This traces the initially slow rise of the family from Bourbon in the Massif Central which as a result of tenacity, ambition and good marriages came to win the crowns first of France, then Spain and f
In this reprint from 1913, Colonel Archibald Gracie tells the story of the sinking of the Titanic from his perspective. He relates the days of travel before the disaster and how he went to bed early a
The story of Nazi Germany's most successful commerce raider of World War Two, sinking over 160,000 tons of Allied shipping. Ship 16 sank twenty-two British and Allied ships during its 110,000 miles an
For a while now, Lady Ashcombe has written a monthly column for Cotswold Life. It records her observations about many things from her unique viewpoint as an American lady living in Sudeley Castle. Ref
