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  • The Great Flood of 1607

    by Barb Drummond, Barb Drummond ...
    On the morning of 20 January 1607, huge areas of South Wales and South West England were flooded. In the wake of the Asian disaster of 2004, the disaster was thought to be a tsunami, but this has been disproved. Contemporary prints show humans clinging to trees, and with animals, struggling in the waters.Broadsheets survive which show people and animals bobbing about in the waters, and people ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Mr Bridges' Enlightenment Machine

    Forty Years on Tour in Georgian Britain

    by Barb Drummond ...
    In 1733 Mr Henry Bridges announced his Microcosm or Little World was on display in Waltham Abbey then toured Britain and the American colonies. It was a giant four tiered machine which demonstrated his world at the time, with the finest art, technology, architecture, music and astronomy.Henry’s story shows the links between religion, magic, science and cabinets of curiosities. It takes us into the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Bristol History Walks

    by Barb Drummond ...
    This book is both an introduction to the history of the city and a guide to exploring its many historic sites.Much of the history described is unusual and all is clearly explained.Each chapter covers a specific theme, with instructions and maps.Each walk can be done as a single walk, but many can be done in series to extend the range.Instructions are provided on access and transport.The walks are ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Frolicksome Women & Troublesome Wives

    Wife Selling in England

    by Barb Drummond ...
    In the late 18th century, the French claimed an Englishman tired of his wife could dispose of her at Smithfield’s beast market. Examples can be found scattered through press records. Some were, as often claimed, brutal, sometimes drunken affairs. But they varied widely over time, place, and practice. England was the only Protestant nation to retain its pre-reformation marriage and divorce laws. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Midas of Manumission

    The Orphan Samuel Gist and his Virginian Slaves

    by Barb Drummond ...
    Samuel Gist was born in Bristol in the early eighteenth century but was soon orphaned and sent to Virginia as an apprenticed. Despite this unpromising start, he returned to Britain already a successful merchant, a tobacco trader and owned ships and slaves; when he returned to Britain he thrived as insurance broker. When he died in 1815 he left legacies to many charities, but also funded the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • A Traveller&Amp;Apos;S History Of London

    by Richard Tames ...
    A Traveller’s History of London aims to bring London’s past alive to the resident, traveller and student, to reveal the city’s hidden treasures and forgotten places and guide the reader to the sights and sites that can still be seen and enjoyed. This Traveller’s History gives the discerning visitor a full and comprehensive historical background to the capital’s past ... Read more

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  • The Stones of London

    A History in Twelve Buildings

    by Leo Hollis ...
    The story of London, told through twelve of its most seminal buildings.'Excellent ...this is an imaginative book that finds a convincing new way to tell the story of one of the most written-about cities in the world' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'Hollis has a fine eye for architecture, and engagingly describes neo-classical marvels as well as the Labour government's dockside folly of the Millennium Dome.. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • A History of the South Yorkshire Countryside

    by David Hey ...
    A look at how our ancestors shaped the South Yorkshire human landscape over the centuries from the author of The Grass Roots of English History.South Yorkshire has some of the most varied countryside in England, ranging from the Pennine moors and the wooded hills and valleys in the west to the estate villages on the magnesian limestone escarpment and the lowlands in the east. Each of these ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exploring Durham History: Eastern, Northern and Southern County Durham

    by Philip Nixon, Denis Dunlop ...
    One of three smaller, more specific e-books, abridged from Philip Nixon's Exploring Durham History.The colourful threads that run through County Durham history have produced a rich tapestry of history, and this edition's focus on eastern, northern and southern County Durham is sure to appeal to all local history enthusiasts. ... Read more

    $6.57 CAD

  • London

    A Social and Cultural History, 1550–1750

    by Robert O. Bucholz, Joseph P. Ward ...
    Between 1550 and 1750 London became the greatest city in Europe and one of the most vibrant economic and cultural centres in the world. This book is a history of London during this crucial period of its rise to world-wide prominence, during which it dominated the economic, political, social and cultural life of the British Isles, as never before nor since. London incorporates the best recent work ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Inheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies

    Property & madness in eighteenth-century London

    by Leo Hollis ...
    ‘Brilliant’ Financial Times‘Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world’s greatest cities’ Dan SnowThe reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own LondonJune 1701, and a young widow wakes in a Paris hotel to find a man in her bed. Within hours they are ... Read more

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  • Exploring West Yorkshire's History - The City of Leeds

    by Nigel A. Ibbotson ...
    Exploring West Yorkshire's History - is a journey through the wonderfully varied landscape of West Yorkshire, and examines its rich history through contemporary colour photographs and words. Many of the areas we will explore throughout our journey have been designated Areas of Outstanding Beauty. West Yorkshire is a place of history and legend, with its many ruined castles and abbeys. Moving from ... Read more

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