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Simba Chai is the first comprehensive history of the Kenya tea industry. From experimentalplantings by enterprising settlers in the early 1900s, Kenya is now the largest supplier of teato world markets.

This Family History Record Book is an easy-to-use, usefully organised way to record the details of your ancestors as you progress your genealogy research. It provides generous, clear space for recording eight generations of your family – a whopping 255 individuals in total.

This Family History Record Book is an easy-to-use, usefully organised way to record the details of your ancestors as you progress your genealogy research. It provides generous, clear space for recording eight generations of your family – a whopping 255 individuals in total.

"Richard Prosser, of Birmingham, an engineer of high original faculties and great attainments, has died suddenly..." - The Spectator 27th May 1854These are the opening words of an obituary of a man who Sir Henry Cole, Prince Albert's trusted adviser, described as "a patentee of considerable eminence... he invented more things, I believe, than almost any man of his day". Prosser helped shape Victorian Britain. Then inexplicably vanished from history.Richard Prosser (1804-1854) was one of the most inventive - and contentious - engineers of 19th-century Birmingham. Born in the town's industrial heart, Prosser rose without formal education to become a significant figure in Britain's engineering community.Closely involved in battles over the Midlands nail and metal tube industries, his patented machinery enhanced the industrial manufacture of both, the latter advancing the railway and steamship age. The resulting bruising litigation involved some of Birmingham's most powerful businessmen and political figures.His 'dust-pressed' process patent instigated the mass production of durable cheap ceramic buttons and the decorative wall and floor tiles that beautified public buildings, pubs and homes and transformed Victorian sanitation. Collaboration with the eminent potter Herbert Minton led to his introduction to leading exponents of Victorian art and design (and Prince Albert). His patent incited well-publicised disputes in England and the USA.A fierce advocate for inventors' rights, Prosser was at the forefront of the campaign culminating in the reform of Britain's arcane patent system in 1852. His own life was marked by drama: a family feud that led to Prosser being accused of forgery and disgrace and exile for his brother Thomas (who later prospered in the USA); and a second 'marriage' that defied the law.In his final months he was drawn into the debate over firearms production on the eve of the Crimean War, giving evidence to Parliament on a matter of huge consequence to Birmingham's gun trade.In Prosser the Engineer, Susan Darby follows a trail of family clues, newspapers, archives and courtroom battles to reconstruct an extraordinary life. From industrial intrigue in Birmingham to the Great Exhibition era and the American Civil War, this is part biography, part detective story - and a vivid portrait of a Birmingham genius.

The Old Straight Track was first published in 1925. It introduced the concept of 'leys' - alignments of natural and man-made features in the landscape, used by our ancient forebears to orient themselves in the world. It remains one of the most inspiring books about the British landscape and our relationship with it.

A comprehensive guide to researching more than 100 historic occupations, ideal for family historians and other British history researchers.

Discover the beauty and history of Britain's iconic cathedrals with Visit Britain's Cathedrals - the ultimate guidebook and logbook for cathedral enthusiasts! With detailed coverage of all 97 Anglican, Catholic and Presbyterian cathedrals across England, Wales and Scotland, it also includes location maps and details of nearby facilities.

The engaging and remarkable story of how an innovative 18th-century engineer - a man with no formal schooling - overcame technical and financial challenges to revolutionise the transport and delivery of coal during the Industrial Revolution. With extensive original research and fully illustrated.

How do historians picture the past – and how do they teach us to see it too? In Picture This, Carolyn Steedman asks how fellow historians imagine the people, places and lives they write about, and how those imaginings are conveyed to their readers.Moving from eighteenth-century engravings, London street life and blue-and-white china to domestic kitchens, political satire, Henry Mayhew’s social investigations, rag rugs and twentieth-century classrooms, Steedman uncovers a compelling social history of seeing. How were people taught to look? What did words, pictures and objects allow them to notice – and what remained unseen? Can a historian recover not only a vanished world, but the ways in which its inhabitants perceived and imagined it?Erudite, intimate and alive with unexpected connections, Picture This is both a meditation on the historian’s craft and an invitation to examine our own visual imagination. It reveals history not as the past itself, waiting to be discovered, but as something made – through evidence, language and memory.Essential reading for historians and anyone curious about how the past takes shape in the present.

What if everything you know about Jack the Ripper is wrong? Since 1888, hundreds of suspects have been proposed for the Jack the Ripper murders – from Polish barbers to Freemason conspiracies.  But what if investigators have been asking the wrong question? Instead of asking ‘Who was Jack the Ripper?’, Richard Walker asked ‘How were these murders actually committed?’ What he discovered is truly shocking.

The Temperance movement that sought to persuade drinkers of alcohol to reduce consumption, or give it up altogether, was a particularly significant force throughout the United Kingdom in the second half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th. In Hampshire two strands were quickly apparent; some advocated moderation of drinking habits while others campaigned for total abstinence, often referred to as “teetotalism”. County advocates of both views were often in conflict with each other, and with brewers and public house licensees who wanted no restrictions. Local and national temperance groups established societies in Hampshire, some providing sickness and death benefits. They flourished until about the second quarter of the 20th century when decline began, which accelerated until the movement had largely died out by 1970. “This diabolical sin of drunkenness” charts the history of temperance in Hampshire, the involvement of national and local leaders, the huge commitment of large numbers of volunteers, and spells out the successes, frustrations, and the disagreements that sometimes resulted in court appearances and, in a few cases, prison sentences.