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| | Muir, Richard Normal price £20.00 — Discount price £17.00 — You save £3.00 <convert> 
Landscape history uses clues in the everyday landscape - buildings, roads, fields, hedges - together with maps and documents to find out how the landscape was organised in the past and how it developed into the modern day. Reconstruction of the past is not a difficult task, and with Richard Muir as the expert guide the reader is soon brought face to face with a dazzling array of historical clues quite literally under his feet. Both accessible and informative, this guide from the leading popular writer on the history of the landscape demonstrates that the scenery of countryside and suburb can be read like a book. It also exposes many of the popular myths that have grown up around the landscape such as the Black Death being responsible for the depopulation of the countryside, and old woods being the last relics of the ancient wild wood that once covered all of the country. "Where You Are" is all-embracing in its approach and contains a vast wealth of information. There is no comparable guide to reading the landscape and Richard Muir has created a format that the general reader with an interest in understanding the history that lies all around us will find inspiring.
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| Miles, David Normal price £20.00 — Discount price £17.00 — You save £3.00 <convert> Who are we? This story of the peoples
of Britain and Ireland draws on new genetic discoveries, language, buildings and
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Brewer's Britain and Ireland is a Brewer's-style reference book about place-names and the historical associations of the places they designate. Lying part-way between the traditional gazetteer and a traveller's 'armchair companion', it takes the reader on an informative and fascinating 'heritage tour' of thousands of places and place-names in every part of the islands of Britain and Ireland.
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Ronald Blythe's "Akenfield" is a moving portrait of English country life told in the voices of the farmers and villagers themselves. This book focuses on the village in Suffolk on which "Akenfield" was based. Here, farmers, orchardmen, and Eastern European migrant workers offer a panoramic portrait. | |
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49 Bankside is an 18th century house, the last genuine survivor of what was once a long ribbon of houses overlooking the water. It still stands, opposite St Paul's Cathedral, and next door to the re-built Globe theatre and the new bridge, which takes pedestrians across the Thames to Tate Modern. Earlier, there was a medieval inn, the Cardinal's Hat, on the same site. Gillian Tindall makes the whole area - and its long history - live again. Here are the bear-baiting pits and the brothels, the priests' fish ponds and the bishop's underground prison (the 'Clink'), the theatres of Shakespeare's time, and the iron and coal businesses of the industrial revolution. Rich with anecdote and colour, empathetic, scholarly and textured, this is social history at its most enjoyable. Gillian Tindall excels at description and picking out the most fascinating details. | Hey, David (ed.) Normal price £14.99 — Discount price £13.49 — You save £1.50 <convert>
The last 30 years have seen a huge growth of interest in local and family history
both as a subject for the general enthusiast and as an area of academic study.
With over 2000 entries, this "Companion" provides detailed summaries of the latest
knowledge in local and family history. |
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and Local History books from the National Archives
Getting
Started in Family History
Using
Census Returns
Using
Criminal Records
Using
Navy Records
Using
Poor Law Records
Using
Wills
Air Force Records
for Family Historians
Army
Records for Family Historians
Army
Service Records of the First World War
Emigrants
and Expats
Immigrants
and Aliens
The Family
Records Centre
Making
Use of the Census
Railway
Records
Records
of Merchant Shipping and Seamen
Tracing
Your Naval Ancestors
Tracing
Your West Indian Ancestors
Using
Manorial Records
Family
Photographs, 1860-1945
The
Joys of Family History
Record
Repositories in Great Britain
Tracing
Your Ancestors in the Public Record Office
House
History Starter Pack
Tracing
the History of Your House | | | | |
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Be Your Own Landscape Detective
Tribes of Britain
Brewer's Britain and Ireland
Return to Akenfield
House by the Water
Oxford Companion to Local and Family History