Lokalhistorie

Vintage Parisian scenes from the time of the Belle Epoque and beyond are matched with the same views today to give a fascinating insight into the romantic capital of Europe in this bilingual edition.

Unseen Hastings and St Leonards features 250 views including previously unpublished photographs that will appeal to everyone with an interest in the history of Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea. All aspects of everyday life are recorded here, offering a unique glimpse of bygone times for all who know and love this beautiful part of the Sussex coast.

LONDONTOWN is a photographic love letter to this bustling world capital.

London is a city of markets: markets in meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, money, insurance, shipping and, occasionally, in stolen goods.

Featuring eyewitness accounts from a haunted room, sealed up for forty years at the Blue Boar pub, to the ghostly female resident at the Old Duke and the Westhoughton poltergeist, this book includes pulse-raising narratives that are guaranteed to make your blood run cold.

Discover London's tiniest house, a 4,000-year-old mouse made from Nile clay, and have a giggle at things people leave on London's transport (including false teeth, a human skull and a park bench - yes, really.) Why did a dentist keep his dead wife on view in a shop window?

Since it was first broadcast on British television in 1997, Midsomer Murders has become one of the most-beloved detective dramas on television, instantly recognisable for its attractive backdrop at the heart of rural England.

Featured here are chapters on the village itself, the community, schools, seashore and fishing industry, high days and holidays and local events. It is sure to evoke many happy memories of yesteryear.

The story of Golborne's history told through archive photographs

Robin Laing set out to visit every distillery in the Speyside area, from Benromach to Tomintoul, and presents a guide which is part history, part travelogue and part commentary on the changes in the whisky industry.

World of William Morris

A visual journey into Middlesbrough's past - that will delight resident and visitor alike

Sheffield troublemakers

Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to source.

Teddington, Twickenham and Hampton past and present

Avalon is a site of great power, revered since ancient times as an entrance to, and exit from, the Otherworld. Book provides a coherent context in which to understand Avalon's many mysteries, including the * Isle * Tor * Glastonbury Zodiac, * Abbey * Tor Labyrinth * St. Michael ley line The author invokes the magical, spiritual power of the English landscape with a wealth of detailed information encompassing other belief systems and scared sites. He discusses * Physical and sacred topography * Symbols * Architecture * History

Once part of Lancashire, Droylsden and Audenshaw are now part of Tameside Metropolitan Borough of Manchester. The varied histories of both towns see the transition from farming to an industrial community. With over 200 photographs, this book gives us a glimpse of the streets of the two towns and the people who lived there, at work and leisure.

An oral history of Kent hop pickers

Bogen Stepping og Frørup – glimt fra før og nu indeholder anekdoter, fortællinger, historier om beboere, gårde, butikker og landsbyer i Stepping og Frørup sogne

Tag med forfatter og kulturhistoriker Henning Dehn-Nielsen med rundt i Sønderjyllands spændende natur- og kulturlandskab. Kom foreksempel med til slotsbyerne Sønderborg, Nordborg, Gråsten og Gram eller med til de gamle købstader Ribe, Haderslev, Aabenraa og Tønder. Byer der alle imponerer ved deres høje alder og særegne arkitektur. Gå med langs Hærvejen og følg samme rute som tusindvis af pilgrimme har gjort det siden middelalderen.Henning Dehn-Nielsen (f.1940) er en dansk forfatter, redaktør og kulturhistoriker. Henning Dehn-Nielsen er oprindeligt uddannet cand.phil. i historie og arkæologi fra Københavns Universitet, og underviste i mange år inden han helligede sig forfatterskabet. Henning Dehn-Nielsen har udgivet i omegnen af 50-60 bøger, hvoraf en stor del omhandler danmarks historie og konger, arkitektur og arkæologi, lokalhistorie og topografi, foruden en stor mængde artikler til tidsskrifter, leksika og lignende.