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  • National Trust Histories: The Lake District

    by Christopher Barringer ...
    The Lake District was, until the 19th century, a remote, neglected and inaccessible part of England. Before the arrival of good road and rail networks and tourism it had been home to successive generations of very tough people: prehistoric peasant farmers, small Roman garrisons, Norse and Saxon settlers, monastic tenants and, after the Dissolution of the monasteries, the doughty farming families ... Read more

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  • How England Made the English

    From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours

    by Harry Mount ...
    PACKED WITH ASTONISHING FACTS AND WONDERFUL STORIES ON WHAT MAKES THE ENGLISH TICKQ. Why are English train seats so narrow?A. It's all the Romans' fault. The first Victorian trains were built to the same width as horse-drawn wagons; and they were designed to fit the ruts left in the roads by Roman chariots.This intriguing and witty book explains how our national characteristics - our sense of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Great British Railway Journeys

    by Charlie Bunce ...
    The Sunday Times BestsellerA glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years – its history, landscape and people – from the window of Britain’s many and magnificent railway journeys.Inspired by George Bradshaw, a 19th-century cartographer who mapped Britain’s railways as they sprung up around him, Charlie Bunce and Michael Portillo take a journey along nine classic British railway routes and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Clarissa's England

    A gamely gallop through the English counties

    by Clarissa Dickson Wright ...
    The quintessential Englishwoman Clarissa Dickson Wright, one of the Two Fat Ladies and author of Spilling the Beans, takes us on a personal journey through the country of her birth.From Cornwall to Cumbria, Norfolk to Northumbria she brings her extraordinary knowledge, huge passion, forthright opinions and inimitable wit to the distinctive history and regional character of every corner of England ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Great British Railway Journeys Text Only

    by Charlie Bunce ...
    TEXT ONLY EBThe Sunday Times BestsellerA glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years – its history, landscape and people – from the window of Britain’s many and magnificent railway journeys.Inspired by George Bradshaw, a 19th-century cartographer who mapped Britain’s railways as they sprung up around him, Charlie Bunce and Michael Portillo take a journey along nine classic British ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Last Wolf

    The Hidden Springs of Englishness

    by Robert Winder ...
    It is often assumed that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas. But in Robert Winder's brilliantly-written account it is a land built on a lucky set of natural ingredients: the island setting that made it maritime; the rain that fed the grass that nourished the sheep that provided the wool, and the wheat fields that provided its cakes and ale. Then came the seams of iron and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Exploring North Yorkshire's History - The Yorkshire Dales

    by Nigel A. Ibbotson ...
    Exploring North Yorkshire's History - is a journey through the wonderfully varied landscape of North Yorkshire, and examines its rich history through contemporary colour photographs and words. North Yorkshire is England's largest county and being almost 100 miles wide and 65 miles long offers some of the country's most stunning scenery, from the breathtaking east coastline to the fabulous National ... Read more

    $3.67 CAD

  • Great British Journeys

    by Nicholas Crane ...
    Intrepid presenter Nicholas Crane investigates eight epic journeys, following in the footsteps of our greatest indigenous explorers.Nick presents eight of the most interesting traveller-chroniclers to have explored and reported on the state of the nation. From Gerald of Wales who embarked on a seven week journey around the wild perimeter of Wales in March 1188, to HV Morton, the journalist and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Yorkshire

    A lyrical history of England's greatest county

    by Richard Morris ...
    Yorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, family stories, travelogue and ecology, Richard Morris reveals how Yorkshire took shape as a landscape and in literature, legend and popular regard. The result is a fascinating and wide-ranging meditation on Yorkshire and Yorkshireness, told through the prism of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Forest of Dean

    The History and Heritage of the Forest of Dean

    by Karen Wren ...
    The Forest of Dean is one of the largest areas of mixed woodlands in the UK with broadleaves and conifers of several species, flora and fauna, streams and ponds all masquerading the industrial remains of the Forest’s heavy industry - iron mines, furnaces, scowles and disused mines. Today it's an area for leisure, bordered by the River Wye to the west and Severn to the east.This book gives an ... Read more

    $3.67 CAD

  • The Shell Country Alphabet

    The Classic Guide to the British Countryside

    by Geoffrey Grigson ...
    In the 1960s Geoffrey Grigson travelled around England writing the story of the secret landscape that is all around us, if only we take the time to look and see. The result is a book that will take you on an imaginative journey, revealing hidden stories, unexpected places and strange phenomena.From green men, ice-scratches, cross-legged knights and weathercocks to rainbows, clouds and stars; from ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 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

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