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With a Foreword and Introduction by Dame Mary Perkins. A compilation of “heartfelt stories and images, together commemorating the freedom we enjoy today”. This exciting new book commemorates and celebrates…
“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…
An entertaining and detailed account of Charles Clerke who sailed, as Capt. James Cook’s apprentice, aboard The Endeavour. He was a close friend of Joseph Banks to whom he wrote…
Right up until the Second World War, central government had little to do with the management of local affairs in small market towns. In the absence of civil servants, local…
For over 40 years Bob Oakes (alias Fred Pope) has worked his magic with metal – crafting it into everything from classic architectural ironwork to contemporary sculpture. Though his mother…
Step away from sunny Jersey’s present day and into the sinister shadows of the past … the island’s history is filled with dark deeds and restless spirits. There are aspects…
Guernsey, the second largest of the Channel Islands, has some fascinating buildings. Between 1813 and 1831, John Wilson was responsible, amongst other things, for designing three of the most notable…
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…
This edition is now sold out however there will be a new edition available (hopefully) from April 2022 so please let me know (by the contact page or email) if…
A story of survival, dedication and sheer determination. With background information on the Lancaster bomber and its place in the air offensives of World War II, the place of Bomber…
Katherine Swynford is one of the most famous and enigmatic of medieval women. She has strong connections with Lincolnshire although born around 1350; daughter of Payn de Roet, a knight…
Katherine Swynford was first mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. Her charismatic lover was one of the most powerful princes of the fourteenth…
Here is a book of twenty, safe, walks in the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside, devised especially with children in mind. Packed with fun things to see and do. Each route offers…
Whilst previous histories of England and the German Hanse have carried sections on the east coast ports, the place of King’s Lynn in the Anglo-Hanseatic medieval world warrants an independent…
A model history of a local community’s part in the Great War – in this case, not a Pals’ battalion, but a factory: that of Reckitts’, in 1914 Hull’s largest…
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