Presents a comprehensive history of India, from ancient to modern times. This book talks of how the destruction of non-Brahminic literatures has been the key to wrongful interpretations of ancient India, and to the way Dravidian culture was underval…
California Then and Now - People and Places is a whole new take on Anova Books' best-selling trademark series. Featuring images from across the state of California, from San Francisco in the north to San Diego in the south, it shows how much and how…
This book is a collection of essays by various members of the Carey/Cary family regarding their history, research, and genealogy. The managing editor is E. Niel Carey and he hopes this book is of use and interest to anyone looking for the Carey/Cary…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United St…
The Romans knew Beckenham and it became a substantial village by the time of Domesday Book. However, it remained a village for the next eight centuries until the arrival of the railway and the Crystal Palace which transformed it, as a new town spran…
Skye Pioneers and "The Island" by Malcolm A. Macqueen (1878-1960) was first published in 1929 by the Stovell Company in Winnipeg. It is one of the first, if not the first, published work of genealogy and family history treating the settlers from Sky…
This exhaustive and affectionate history is crammed with information and rare pictures from the famous Shepperton Studios. From assistants to directors, producers, stars, prop men, production managers and studio executives, the author has interviewe…
This is a major comparative study of early Irish and Welsh kinship. Kinship is a central element in all human societies. It was of particular significance in early medieval Ireland and Wales where governmental institutions were, in general, weak.T.…
This set of eight detailed A3 images depicts work-related scenes from around the UK in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Taken from the National Monuments Record, the pictures include maids in service, railway labourers, a blacksmith's shop,…
A Century of Lowestoft offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of unprecedented change. Many aspects of Lowestoft's recent history are…
Originally published in England in 1910, this story of a shepherd, Caleb Bawcombe, describes life in Wiltshire before the turn of the twentieth century. It is a charming picture of pastoral life, an idyllic and simple time in history. Friends, famil…
In 1919 Sian Busby's great-grandmother, Beth, gave birth to triplets. One of the babies died at birth and eleven days later she drowned the surviving twins in a bath of cold water. She was sentenced to an indefinite term of imprisonment at Broadmoor…
A history of Penistone
This charming collection of oer 240 photographs documents life in this thriving seaside town in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.All aspects of everyday life are recorded here, from shops, schools and hospitals to sport, entertainment and…
The area defined as the 'North Oxfordshire Cotswolds' extends from Wychwood Forest in the south to the Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire borders in the north. Although a typical Cotswold area, there are subtle differences between the Oolitic lime…
This wonderful new book by local author Malcolm Hitt and local historian Gary Firth, takes a comparative peep into how Titus Salt's model industrial village has changed since acquiring the status of a World Heritage site. Images are brought together…
In Tim Bryan's Great Western Swindon the reader was taken on a tour of both inside and outside the GWR workshops at Swindon, which dominated the history of a town for almost 150 years. Since its publication, the collection from which the images were…
A history of Severn Beach
The people of Tyrone have the reputation for having 'open hearts and a desire to please' and their folk tales are as varied as their landscape. There are the tales of the amazing feats of the giant Finn McCool and the derring-do of the Red Hand of U…
Numerous pictorial histories of Guildford have been published in the past, and so too have many local histories on a wide variety of subjects. Our town centre and the landscape around us still hold many secrets, and 'Guildford's Hidden History' reve…
Edinburgh has long had a proud and distinctive identity as the capital city of Scotland. Throughout its history it has been renowned as a home of science, education, literature and culture, and today the city hosts the world-famous Edinburgh Festiva…
This book is part of a series, which combines the reminiscences of local people with old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.
Explore Kingston upon Thames's secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Falkirk has changed and developed over the last century.
The town has long been associated with a strong haunted heritage and reputation. Incredibly the local authorities still employed a professional ghost-layer right up until about 150 years ago, long after most other local towns had dispensed with the…
In a world of multinational conglomerates, one name in British aviation has remained independent for the past nine decades. Marshall of Cambridge has quietly grown to be one of the single largest employers in Cambridgeshire. Founded in the Edwardian…
From a few Anglo-Saxon hamlets set in a mostly agricultural landscape, to the industrial revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, West Bromwich gradually developed into one of the most successful and prosperous towns in the Black Count…
This illustrated history of World War II relives the drama, heroism and horrors as they unfolded in Kent - a county in which many people were nearer to occupied Europe than they were to their own capital city. It is not just the story of fighting me…
Women's stories often get lost because so much of women's history resides in private places such as diaries, family scrapbooks, family letters, or papers stored in boxes in family attics. Women often are hard to find, and once found, can be hard to…
Join journalist, broadcaster and paranormal investigator Jason Day on a tour around one of England's oldest and most paranormally active counties. Visit the site of the `Most Haunted House In England' at Borley, encounter the mysterious Spider of St…
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Great Torrington has changed and developed over the last century.
