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The study of clay pipes has proved increasingly valuable to the archaeologist since the 1950s. A common find in the excavation of post-medieval deposits, and often occurring more frequently than…
Summer 2014 issue. This academic study of Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy with an introduction by William Gray. Included in this issue: The case of the Ebony Horse, Ruth B…
In the early 19th century, despite 600 years of allegiance to the English Crown, a majority of Guernseymen still spoke a Franco-Norman dialect and retained cultural affinities with France. By…
This is the first modern study of Guernsey under the restored monarchy of Charles II. It is based on extensive research in archives in Guernsey and England and presents, for…
In the first decade of the 20th century a sparsely-populated marshland village, north-west of Grimsby, was invaded by several thousand men and their families. The great central Railway had decided…
“Suddenly a shape lunged out of the darkness, a large creature, towering above me. I spun round, trying to whip my gun out of my pocket but it was too…
This book by the Second World War Bomber Command veteran is written in his ninety fourth year. A tribute by Douglas to Allied and British prisoners of war held in…
A children’s picture book with a short story of two badger cubs Joe-Pye and Comfrey who have many adventures involving near-disaster and Lincolnshire’s Aviation Heritage Centre’s, Just Jane coming to…
A visitor to the Lincoln Cloisters will find that the aesthetic quality of the carved oak roof bosses is immediately appreciable and that the naturalistic style, although containing certain anomalies,…
The thirteenth booklet in The Survey of Lincoln’s series and examines the area closely associated with the Southern High Street, bounded at the north by High Bridge and the south…
During World War Two the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to be overrun by the Germans. This book shows that Islanders learned how to contend with Nazi…
Desmond Mulholland was born in Wandsworth, South London 17th July 1919 to John Edward Mulholland who was an Army Intelligence Officer in World War I and Dorothy Madeline Mulholland, nee…
This book based on extensive original research, provides an account of parochial poor relief in Guernsey from the Reformation to the 21st century, incorporating a detailed case-study of the parochial…
Frank Keiller was 13 and living in Jersey when the Germans occupied the Channel Islands in 1940. During the ensuing five years he shared the various hardships common to his…
Until October 1848 there were no railway services in Boston, goods and passengers having to be transported by road or water instead. This booklet, generously illustrated, covers the railway development…
John Reed, born in 1937 and raised in Ruskington, Lincolnshire; this charming compilation of childhood memories came about after the author posted many as a Blog in the Internet. Whilst…
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