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  • Life in the Raws

    Memories of a Shale Oil Village

    by Jock Findlay, Neil Findlay ...
    This book is the life story of John 'Jock' Findlay, rediscovered by his grandson Neil Findlay MSP after finding Jock's writing on the back of a plywood bath panel. Pumpherston village in Scotland, built by Pumpherston Oil Company in 1884, was home to the brave shale oil workers who faced life threatening conditions. In Life in the Raws the life of 'a proud, good, clever working class man' is ... Read more

    $9.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A History of the Kitchen

    The Sutton Life Series

    by David J Eveleigh ...
    Series series The Sutton Life Series
    What were early kitchens like? How have they evolved over time? What factors have influenced their design? David Eveleigh takes you into the heart of the home and shows us why modern kitchens are the way they are. Everything you could wish to know about kitchens and their unusual history will be found with these pages. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seasons of My Life

    by Hannah Hauxwell ...
    The classic, No.1 bestselling and much-loved memoir by Hannah Hauxwell about life in remote Yorkshire in the 1970s.'The world's favourite Daleswoman' YORKSHIRE POST**'**She brings the reader back to the essentials' MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS**'**Hannah's humility, simplicity and strange accent - a mix of Yorkshire and Northumbrian with a Scandinavian lilt - touched many viewers ... Hannah's ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Akenfield

    by Ronald Blythe ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'The best portrait of rural life in England' Roger Deakin'Exquisite' John Updike'The finest contemporary writer on the English countryside' ObserverRonald Blythe's perceptive and vivid evocation of the rural Suffolk he had known since childhood was acclaimed as an instant classic when it was published in 1969. It reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences ... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Countryfile: Adam's Farm

    My Life on the Land

    by Adam Henson ...
    In 2001, Adam Henson was chosen from 3,500 applicants to become a presenter on Countryfile. Adam's agricultural knowledge and open manner soon made him a popular figure and when the programme moved to its current Sunday evening slot in 2009, he began to present a weekly report from his own farm in the Cotswolds.There, the ups and downs of the farming calendar, as told in Adam's straight-talking ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

  • The 1950s Kitchen

    by Kathryn Ferry ...
    Series Book 627 - Shire Library
    A beautifully illustrated introduction to the kitchen of the 1950s, its decor, the produce of the oven and the contents of the refrigerator.The 1950s was the first great age of the modern kitchen. Labour-saving appliances, bright colours and the novelty of fitted units moved the kitchen from dankness into light, where it became the domain of the happy housewife and the heart of the home. New space ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Rifling Through My Drawers

    by Clarissa Dickson Wright ...
    With her inimitable wit and outspoken views, Clarissa Dickson Wright opens her diary and takes us on a journey around Britain with this unrivalled collection of stories and anecdotes from her ever-eventful life. As celebrated cook and champion of the countryside, Clarissa's year includes being propositioned by a burly greyhound courser, meeting the Chairman of the Sandringham branch of the WI, a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Our Glasgow

    Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain

    by Piers Dudgeon ...
    This ebook edition contains the full text version as per the book. Doesn't include original photographic and illustrated material. This oral history of Glasgow spans most of the last century - a time of economic downturn and eventual renewal, in which the many communities making up the city experienced upheavals that tore some apart and brought others closer together. It tells of the beating heart ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Victoria's Children of the Dark

    The Women and Children who Built Her Underground

    by Alan Gallop ...
    Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath her 'green and pleasant land' harvesting the coal to fuel the furnaces of the industrial revolution. Following the real fortunes of seven-year-old Joey Burkinshaw and his family, Alan Gallop recreates the events surrounding the 1838 Husker Pit disaster at Silkstone, ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Force To Be Reckoned With

    A History of the Women's Institute

    by Jane Robinson ...
    Everyone knows three things about the Women's Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair.But there's so much more to this remarkable Movement. Over 200,000 women in the UK belong to the WI and their membership is growing. They cross class and religion,include all ages -from students and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Beswick Pottery

    by Val Baynton ...
    Series Book 669 - Shire Library
    Founded in 1894 by James Wright Beswick, Beswick Pottery remained in the family for three generations before becoming part of Royal Doulton in 1969.As owners and collectors of its products will testify, Beswick aimed to produce well-made ceramics at affordable prices: wares which could be used daily in the home as well as decorative ornaments for animal lovers of all ages to cherish.In this volume ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Land Girls & Their Impact

    by Ann Kramer ...
    "The impact of the land girls cannot be ignored. It was not just that women were working and farms had more women than men, women who were not part of the family or, for some of them, had even lived in the countryside before – but women were wearing trousers and filling in for men, some of whom would never return from war. For the women, their time as land girls changed their lives and how they ... Read more

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