
Sea Anemones and Corals of Britain and Ireland
Book
The waters around Britain and Ireland contain a huge variety of marine life and some of the...

Cuttings: A Year in the Garden with Christopher Lloyd
Book
Christopher Lloyd was the grand old man of British gardening and gardening writers. From 1989 until...

Spit and Polish: Old-Fashioned Ways to Banish Dirt, Dust and Decay
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In the late nineteenth century, general housework in the British home was so labour intensive that...

The Best of Kipper Williams: All in Tents and Porpoises
Book
Kipper Williams is one of Britain's most adaptable and popular cartoonists, best-known for the...

The English Castles Story
Book
It was not until after the Norman Conquest that British castles, as we think of them today, came...
The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell
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Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical,...

The Joy of Pubs: Everything You Wanted to Know About Britain's Favourite Drinking Establishment
Book
Following on in the same vain of The Joy of Sheds, The Joy of Pubs is an intoxicating publication...

The Lore of the Playground: One Hundred Years of Children's Games, Rhymes and Traditions
Book
From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting 'one potato, two potato' and...

The Sinking of the Lancastria: Britain's Greatest Maritime Disaster and Churchill's Cover-up
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A fortnight after the evacuation at Dunkirk some 150,000 British troops were still stuck in France....

Titanic Scandal: The Trial of the Mount Temple
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A steamer lay within sight of the RMS Titanic as she sank, according to ample witnesses - including...