Släktforskning, lokalhistoria

Oxford

Jan Morris has given us a brilliant and thoroughly enjoyable exploration the history, architecture, geography, and culture of one of England's most historic, beautiful, enigmatic and visited cities -- Oxford. This is the perfect guide for local hi...

Mannahatta - A Natural History of New York City

It's difficult to imagine today what Manhattan would have looked like to its early explorers - before the skyscrapers, the crowded sidewalks and the busy intersections. Ten years ago landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson came across a British Headqua...

Home - The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House

Ever thought about all the people who lived in your house before you? Julie Myerson did, and set out to learn as much as she could about their fascinating lives. This is the biography of a house, the history of a home. It's an ordinary house, an o...

The Invisible Wall

Harry Bernsteins' childhood in the industrial north of England in the shadow of the First World War is one of hardship and hostility. His brutish father spends what little he earns at the tailoring shop on drink, while his devoted mother survives ...

Scotland - The Story of a Nation

A timely and vivid look at Scotland's long and difficult road to nationhood, re-exploring some cherished myths and unearthing a wealth of fascinating new detail. Magnus Magnusson's starting point is Sir Walter Scott's classic version of Scotland's...

I Never Knew That About the Scottish

In this captivating book, bestselling author Christopher Winn turns his attention to the Scottish people, taking us on an eye-opening journey around their homeland, discovering en route the intriguing and surprising ways the places and their histo...

Thames - Sacred River

Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, "Thames: Sacred River" is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader is drawn into ...

Black Diamonds - The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty

Wentworth is in Yorkshire and was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is the finest and largest Georgian house in Britain and belonged to the Fitzwilliam family. It is England's forgotten palace which belonged to Bri...

Gotham - A History of New York City to 1898

In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have written an epic as vast and varied as the city it chronicles, Drawing on the work of hundreds of scholars who have re-examined New York's past, the authors weave together diverse histories - of sex...

Manchester - A World Lit Only by Fire

From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for nar...

The Mitford Girls - The Biography of an Extraordinary Family

THE MITFORD GIRLS tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as any novel: Nancy, whose bright social existence masked an obsessional doomed love which soured her success; P...

Lost Lore - A Celebration of Traditional Wisdom, from Foraging and Festivals to Seafaring and Smoke Signals

cooking with a range / counting sheep / curing drunkenness finding water / signalling with semaphore / identifying plants and trees making and taking tea / natural first aid / using an abacus navigating by nature / preparing antidotes to poisoning...

A Village Lost and Found - An Annotated Tour of the 1850s Series of Stereo Photographs "Scenes in Our Village" by T.R. Williams

This book is the perfect antidote to the stress of life in the 21st Century. It portrays the idyll of life in an 1850s village, "far from the sound of the train's whistle". The identity of the village was lost to the world for 150 years,...

Branch Line Britain - A Nostalgic Journey Celebrating a Golden Age

This book offers a fascinating insight into the golden age of rail travel for everyone with fond memories of this often ignored aspect of British history. It includes existing, preserved and lost branch lines - 62 in total - from the far north of ...

Rebus's Scotland - A Personal Journey

'His novels are playing a significant part in redefining Scotland's image of itself in literature' Independent on Sunday In REBUS'S SCOTLAND Ian Rankin uncovers the Scotland that the tourist never sees, highlighting the places that inspired the se...

Woodstock - Peace, Music and Memories

"Woodstock: Peace, Music & Memories" tells the story of this society-changing event, in the words and photos of the people who were there. The book, with its natural and recycled look and mix of 350 colour, sepia and black and white ...

The Hut Six Story - Breaking the Enigma Codes

The Beatles' Liverpool - The Complete Guide

The Knox Brothers - With an Introduction by Richard Holmes

Penelope Fitzgerald's biography of her remarkable family. 'When I was very young I took my uncles for granted, and it never occurred to me that everyone else in the world was not like them.' In this, only her second book, Penelope Fitzgerald turne...

The Lighthouse Stevensons

An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works...