City and County
There are 252 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
 Used: $11.95 Trade Paper List Price $26.95 
add to wish list |
|
Stratford-Upon-Avon 1196-1996: The History of an English Borough
by Robert Bearman  Publisher Comments This book, published to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the granting of the town's charter, contains eleven contributions by leading historians on crucial periods of the town's history, ranging from a study of the early Romano-British settlement to...
|
||||||
Used: $28.00 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Cork Historical Perspectives
by Henry Ala Jefferies Book News Annotation Its history starts somewhere in the mists of time, and every day of that history it has faced the roiling Atlantic and storms of the Irish fate. Jeffries (history, Thornhill College, Derry) and his collaborators describe how Cork began as a monastic...
|
||||||
Used: $7.75 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Story of Greenwich
by Clive Aslet Synopsis Greenwich is not only the site of Britain's celebration of the new millennium, it has been emblematic of the history of Britain during the last 1000 years. Its splendid architecture includes work by Wren, Hawksmoor, Vanbrigh and Inigo Jones. This is a...
|
||||||
Used: $7.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Around Bradford on Avon
by Paul Death Publisher Comments This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people....
|
||||||
New: $24.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Return to Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century
by Craig Taylor Publisher Comments Ronald Blythe's 1969 book Akenfield--a moving portrait of English country life told in the voices of the farmers and villagers themselves--is a modern classic, a bestseller that has been translated into more than 20 languages. On the 35th anniversary of...
|
||||||
Used: $4.95 Trade Paper List Price $13.95
add to wish list |
|
James Herriot's Yorkshire: A Guided Tour with the Beloved Veterinarian Through the Land of All Creatures Great and Small and Every Living Thing,
by James Herriot Publisher Comments Here is James Herriot's best-selling personal tour through the beautiful, almost magical land of All Creatures Great and Small and his new volume of memoirs, Every Living Thing. The gorgeous northern English countryside, depicted so memorably in James...
|
||||||
Used: $12.50 Trade Paper List Price $26.95
add to wish list |
|
A Guide to English County Histories
by C R J Currie Synopsis Now in paperback -- an historigraphical survey of each British county's history -- people, places, architecture, and institutions. Great for family research! "...an invaluable reference book and ...an important contribution to our understanding of how...
|
||||||
Used: $4.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
Charleston: Past & Present
by Quentin Bell Publisher Comments An illustrated guide to Charleston, the Sussex farmhouse where Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant provided a gathering place for the Bloomsbury group, which included such literary and artistic luminaries as E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, and Virginia Woolf....
|
||||||
Used: $5.75 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Yorkshire Encounters
by Lin Watts Synopsis Yorkshire possesses within its boundaries an abundance of differing landscapes - each with their own identity. In this book Lin Watts has chosen seven of them and devotes one chapter to each. Together, these seven journeys encompass the areas of...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $16.95
add to wish list |
|
The Cotswolds
by Rob Talbot Synopsis In the COUNTRY series, this is a collection of landscapes from one of England's most beautiful areas. Within the region are high hills, steep escarpments, rolling uplands, wooded coombs, swift-flowing streams, ancient sites, stately homes and lowly...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Clacton on Sea
by Kenneth Walker Synopsis This addition to the "Britain in Old Photographs" series brings together a collection of black-and-white pictures spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawn from family albums, local collections and professional photographers, they show the...
|
||||||
Used: $6.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.99
add to wish list |
|
Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End
by Charles Jennings Publisher Comments This humorous, informative, and user-friendly guide to Greenwich looks at the maritime, royal, and scientific history of the area. It also explores the preparations and plans for the Millennium as compared to the 1851 Great Exhibition and the...
|
||||||
Used: $7.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Brighton & Sussex
by Geraint Tellem Publisher Comments Sussex is one of the most ancient and fascinating of England's counties. The book includes cosmopolitan Brighton, with its unique Royal Pavilion, famous piers and The Lanes, along with the delightful towns of Chichester, Arundel and Lewes....
|
||||||
| Used: $5.25 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Leeds
by Vera Chapman Publisher Comments This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people....
|
||||||
| Used: $8.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Moods of the South Hams
by Peter White Publisher Comments The landscape of the South Hams is a unique combination of dramatic and beautiful coastline, historic towns, quiet estuaries, rolling countryside and river valleys descending from the heights of Dartmoor....
|
||||||
| Sale: $250.00 Hardcover List Price $259.00
add to wish list |
|
Burkes Landed Gentry 19TH Edition Volume 3 & 4 The
by Charles Mosley Publisher Comments For two hundred years Burke's has been one of the most prestigious names in heritage publishing. The famous Peerage and Landed Gentry titles have long been the first port of call for those seeking information on British aristocracy, and now they have...
|
||||||
| Used: $7.50 Hardcover List Price $16.95
add to wish list |
|
Neighbours :the work of Philip Abrams
by Martin Bulmer Publisher Comments Neighbours is a study in both sociology and social policy. We all have neighbours, yet what is their sociological significance? How do we get on with them? What relationships do we establish with them? What kinds of everyday contact, help and support do...
|
||||||
| Used: $5.25 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Ely Then & Now
by Pamela Blakeman Publisher Comments This book is part of the Then & Now series, which matches old photographs with modern ones taken from the same camera locations, to demonstrate the changes that have occurred over the years. The images include streets, buildings, people, and social...
|
||||||
| Used: $7.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Along the Sussex Coast
by Ray Hollands Publisher Comments This book is a unique photographic record of a journey along the beautiful and often dramatic Sussex coastline. Ray Hollands begins at Chichester in the west, passing along the way, Selsey Bill, Bognor, Littlehampton, Worthing and Shoreham, before...
|
||||||
| Used: $15.00 Hardcover List Price $45.00
add to wish list |
|
Chichester: A Millennium View
by Richard Pailthorpe Publisher Comments Following the release of Chichester - A Contemporary View in 1994, Chichester - A Millennium View looks at the following six years of change bringing us to the dawn of the new millennium. Using more than 500 specially commissioned photographs the authors...
|
||||||
