This illustrated, easy reference guide is packed with all the information you need to help you da...

The Tudor period was dominated by King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I. The houses still standin...

A brilliant history of English canals and what makes them work. The book is divided into three cl...

Throughout the Second World War, Suffolk airfields and the airmen of Bomber Command made a large ...

As the storm clouds of war were gathering over Europe in 1938, construction work began on two of ...

Staffordshire has a long history of involvement in aviation. In 1916 the Royal Flying Corps arriv...

The farmers of Lincolnshire are an independent-minded hardworking group. Over the centuries they ...

Twenty dog-friendly country walks with the maximum off-lead time. The walks vary in length from 2...

Decaying animals catapulted over battlements, flaming arrows raining from the sky and red-hot san...

For local historians too, they are of crucial interest; in particular those undertaking research ...

In the search for ancestors, names are the starting point. Here is a solid working guide for fami...

The English castle evokes thoughts of an age of chivalry, when gallant knights fought and romance...

Somerset was not in the front-line during the early stages of the war, and its airfields initiall...

The bottle ovens of Stoke are a familiar sight and a reminder of an era when thousands of local p...

Today we take so much for granted, but it wasn't always so! Just a hundred years ago barely half ...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Shropshire had just two operational airfields - Shawbury...

The Vickers shipyards and docks at Barrow built warships as fast as they could to feed through to...

The Blackpool Aviation week in 1909 marked the beginning. Early pioneers performed a number of fl...

RAF Bomber Command lost 55,000 men during WWII. Their motto was Press on Regardless and the major...

Kiddiwalks in Norfolk

A full account of the part played by Norfolk's airfields during the Second World War. The history...

This book is divided into three sections. Trevor Yorke first charts the origins of the abbey and ...

Using the internet has become the easiest and quickest way to find source material and informatio...

Derbyshire & the Peak District - A Dog Walker's Guide

A full account of the part played by the Thames Valley airfields during the Second World War, inc...

The Gothic revival began in the early years of Victoria's reign. It quickly became the dominant f...

Yorkshire was home to Bomber Command's 4 Group. August 1942 saw the creation of the Pathfinder Fo...

From abscesses, agues and aphrodisiacs to wormwood, wounds and zambuk (a one-time popular skin oi...

A full account of the part played by Lancashire's airfields during the Second World War. The hist...

An account of the part played by the airfields in the Lothians during the Second World War; the p...

Tales of Victorian man-made failures, follies and disasters which were forgotten or swept under t...

First hand aircrew recollections of their wartime service, all set against the stark hazards of p...

The roof lines of our towns and cities are places seldom looked at from below. Yet they contain a...

Cotswold Cottages have a warm beauty unequaled in rural Britain. The cottages have a character th...

The story of how machines changed the face of industry and farming in the 18th and 19th centuries...

The contribution of Scotland's airfields during the Second World War is sometimes underestimated ...

A full account of the part played by Hampshire's airfields during the Second World War. The histo...

The horrors of the First World War scarred an entire generation at the beginning of the twentieth...

Cheshire's contribution to the war effort was massive and it began well before the outbreak of ho...

The entries in this book are based on an encyclopedic approach, each full of interest and informa...

The word 'Regency' has long been associated with elegance conjuring up visions of fashionably dre...

This book describes the re-building of Britain after the Frist World War. Bold advances were made...

In this excellently researched book, Graham Smith describes the air war in Cambridgeshire, and th...

An A-Z of ghostly hauntings covering each county of England, this illustrated book contains stori...

By the middle of the 18th century, with the relaxation in the laws governing its import, Lancashi...

The First World War of 1914-18 affected nearly every family in Britain, as well as those whose ho...

Norfolk was one of the most important counties used by Bomber Command in the last war. From airfi...

A full account of the part played by Gloucestershire's airfields during the Second World War. The...