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27 produkter
Quirky Edinburgh
Av Jack Gillon
Häftad, 2026
181 kr
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Edinburgh has always been a city of unusual characters and has its own distinct, often peculiar, history. Quirky Edinburgh delves into lesser-known but fascinating tales from Edinburgh’s past. Readers will discover stories of the sedan chairs that transported the gentry around the city in the …
Quirky Bristol
Häftad, 2026
176 kr
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Bristol has been one of England’s largest cities since it became a county in 1373. In the seventeenth century writers described Bristol as ‘a little London for merchants’ and it held its status as a major port from the Middle Ages. Yet despite its mercantile wealth Bristol has been called …
Quirky Brighton
Häftad, 2025
181 kr
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Brighton and Hove is one of England’s most recent cities and also one of its most colourful and eccentric. It developed as a fashionable resort in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, becoming inextricably linked with the extravagant behaviour of George IV and his fantastical Pavilion. In this …
Quirky Cardiff
Av Mark Rees
Häftad, 2026
181 kr
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Behind Cardiff’s familiar landmarks lies another city: one of lost chapels, ghostly legends, hidden treasures and secret passageways. Quirky Cardiff uncovers these stories, celebrating the people and places that make the city so unmistakably Cardiffian.Step inside the lavish fairy-tale chamber …
Quirky Swansea
Av Mark Rees
Häftad, 2026
181 kr
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Behind Swansea’s familiar streets and sweeping bay lies another city: one of heroic dogs, vanished chapels, haunted pubs, and seaside legends. Quirky Swansea uncovers the stories that give this city its distinctive character, celebrating the people, places and moments that make Abertawe unlike …
Quirky Gloucester
Av Paul James
Häftad, 2025
178 kr
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Gloucester was a significant city in Roman Britain and has played an important role in the history of this country in the two millennia since then. It has also had an individual and often strange history over this period and in this book local historian author Paul James takes a look at his home …
Quirky Sheffield
Häftad, 2026
178 kr
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Sheffield grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution, becoming one of the largest cities in the country by the nineteenth century. It was best known for its cutlery industry, producing stainless steel locally, and its steel and coal industries played a vital role in the war effort in the Second …
Quirky Peterborough
Häftad, 2025
178 kr
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Peterborough is a modern city with an ancient past. The settlement grew around a monastery founded by the Anglo-Saxons, which became an important abbey church in Norman England and would go on to become the city’s famed cathedral. The Industrial Revolution and the arrival of the railways …
Quirky Truro
Av Christine Parnell, Sheila Richardson
Häftad, 2025
176 kr
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Truro grew up around its medieval castle, deriving its wealth as an inland port, lying on the confluence of two rivers 9 miles from the sea, and as a stannary town. Tin mining brought further prosperity and the town became a centre for Cornwall’s wealthy gentry. It gained both a cathedral and city …
Quirky Chichester
Häftad, 2027
181 kr
Kommande
Chichester’s origins date back to Roman Britain and a subsequent Anglo-Saxon settlement using the fortifications of the original town. The end point of Roman Stane Street, Chichester lies at the foot of the South Downs, controlling a large natural harbour on the South Coast. The city’s Norman …
Quirky Liverpool
Av Ken Pye
Häftad, 2026
178 kr
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Liverpool’s rise to become the second city in the British Empire was directly linked to its development as a commercial port. It was also because of its crucial role as an international trading hub for the transportation and exchange of raw materials, commodities, and manufactured goods. However, …
Quirky Wirral
Av Ken Pye
Häftad, 2026
181 kr
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The Wirral Peninsula has a fascinating history. Before the development of the docks along the Mersey Estuary to the north, the area was a rural patchwork of communities and villages. The nineteenth century saw the growth of towns on Wirral such as Birkenhead, Wallasey, and Ellesmere Port. …
Quirky Llandudno
Häftad, 2026
178 kr
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Llandudno is a popular seaside town on the north coast of Wales. Developed as a holiday resort in the Victorian era, it had previously been a centre of copper mining, the remains of which can be seen today, and the town’s history encompasses many tales of remarkable events and colourful characters, …
Quirky Coventry
Häftad, 2027
181 kr
Kommande
Coventry has been an important settlement in the middle of England since the Middle Ages. To protest against the Saxon Earl Leofric’s taxation the legend arose of Lady Godiva’s naked ride through Coventry. Coventry grew in wealth through the mediaeval cloth trade, had its city walls destroyed …
Quirky City of Southend
Av Dee Gordon
Häftad, 2026
178 kr
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Southend-on-Sea is situated on the Thames Estuary but the originally small settlement grew rapidly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as it became a popular resort, showcased by the world’s longest pleasure pier and what remains of the Kursaal, an early amusement park. The city’s …
Quirky Anglesey
Häftad, 2026
181 kr
Kommande
The Isle of Anglesey, off the north-west coast of Wales, has a remarkable and often unusual history. The treacherous Menai Strait separates the island from the mainland and its early settlers built standing stones and burial chambers from the rocks of Anglesey and the adjoining, smaller Holy …
Quirky Ipswich
Häftad, 2026
181 kr
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Ipswich has been a major port and the county town of Suffolk since the Middle Ages. The town was known for its wealthy merchants, trading from the port, but in the seventeenth century it became an embarkation point for many to start a new life in the New World. Charles Dickens later stayed in and …
Quirky Southampton
Häftad, 2027
181 kr
Kommande
Southampton has been a major port on the south coast of England since its beginnings. It was also a favourite embarkation point for naval expeditions to France in the Middle Ages, including Henry V’s troops in his Agincourt campaign. Later maritime connections include Titanic, the Cunard liners and …
Quirky Dundee
Av Brian King
Häftad, 2027
178 kr
Kommande
Dundee is one of Scotland’s main cities with a long and interesting history. Quirky Dundee, however, avoids the well-known aspects of the city and the most famous parts of its history and instead presents some of its more unusual features, fascinating characters and bizarre stories. In Quirky …
Quirky Lowestoft
Häftad, 2026
176 kr
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Lowestoft is the UK’s most easterly town. The settlement originally grew up around its fishing industry, particularly for herring, before being developed as a resort in the nineteenth century. Shipbuilding and television manufacturing also flourished but these have declined in modern times, …
Quirky Cambridge
Häftad, 2027
181 kr
Kommande
Cambridge is renowned for its ancient university, architectural splendour and groundbreaking discoveries. From its early beginnings as a market town on the edge of the Fens it emerged as an internationally renowned centre of learning and innovation, and is today one of the world’s leading …
Quirky Winchester
Häftad, 2027
178 kr
Kommande
Winchester’s history goes back to Iron Age and Roman origins. Its cathedral was founded in the seventh century, later famous for its bishop St Swithun and Winchester became a leading city in Anglo-Saxon Wessex and continued in importance through the Middle Age. Although it declined in later …
Quirky St Albans
Av Wendy Turner
Häftad, 2027
181 kr
Kommande
St Albans is famous for its Roman origins and cathedral. The medieval market town grew up around the cathedral, and rapidly expanded in the late nineteenth century once the railways arrived and industries were attracted to the city. Proximity to London encouraged further population growth in the …
Quirky Derby
Av Ryan Spencer
Häftad, 2027
181 kr
Kommande
Derby can trace its history back to Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Danish settlements. The medieval market town grew in importance as industrialisation developed and was where Bonnie Prince Charlie stopped his army in 1745. Eighteenth century Derby was remarkable for its industrial innovators and cultural …
Quirky Wareham and the Isle of Purbeck
Häftad, 2027
181 kr
Kommande
The Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in Dorset, is a distinctive landscape. Surrounded by three sides on the sea it is separated from the rest of Dorset by heaths and marshes. The ancient town of Wareham on the edge of Purbeck was an important Saxon settlement, still with its earth ramparts from that …
Quirky King's Lynn
Häftad, 2026
181 kr
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In the Middle Ages King’s Lynn (or Bishop’s Lynn as it was known then) was one of England’s most important ports. Gradually trade shifted and the town declined before new industries developed such as glassmaking, food canning and soup making. The town’s population grew, partly through overspill …
Quirky Bury St Edmunds
Häftad, 2027
181 kr
Kommande
Bury St Edmunds is an historic market town in West Suffolk, attracting many to its cathedral, the remains of its abbey and a wealth of other historic buildings. The town has also been a thriving centre of brewing and malting as well as sugar refining but beneath its surface lie many more unusual …
