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  • Changing Barnsley

    From Mining Town to University Town

    by Tim Thorton ...
    Changing Barnsley looks at how Barnsley has evolved, through the eyes of the former Mining and Technical College on Church Street, which now hosts Barnsley's very own University. Covering the 75 years of its existence, it tracks the period from 1932, when the building was first built, until 2007, when the University was fully up and running.Built along the northern side of the Town Hall in 1932, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties

    by Dominic Sandbrook ...
    'An active pleasure to read' Mail on SundayHarold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum.The memories ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Newbury West Fields Halt - Stations of the Great Western Railway

    Stations of the Great Western Railway, #1

    by Charles Darvelle ...
    Series Book 1 - Stations of the Great Western Railway
    A dedicated history of one of the more neglected stations on the Great Western Railway.Newbury West Fields Halt is no more. There is little left on the ground to show where this railway station once stood. It stood just west of the Berkshire town of Newbury and served commuters from the housing estates in the area. Some of the older residents can still remember the trains rattling through the ... Read more

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  • Modernity Britain

    Book Two: A Shake of the Dice, 1959-62

    by David Kynaston ...
    Series Book 2 - Tales of a New Jerusalem
    Following Austerity Britain and Family Britain, the third volume in David Kynaston's landmark social history of post-war Britain'Triumphant ... A historian of peerless sensitivity and curiosity about the lives of individuals' Financial Times'This superb history captures the birth pangs of modern Britain ... It is a part of Kynaston's huge achievement that such moments of insight and pleasure ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Last Trains

    Dr Beeching and the death of rural England

    by Charles Loft ...
    "The debate about Dr Richard Beeching will rage until the Second Coming – and probably beyond. But in Charles Loft's careful examination of the Beeching Report, we have as fine a study as we are going to possess in the meantime." – Peter Hennessy"Loft's great strength is his judiciousness. He understands the political processes and assesses them fair-mindedly. And his verdict will, I suspect, hold ... Read more

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  • Imagine My Surprise...

    Unpublished Letters to The Daily Telegraph

    Edited by Iain Hollingshead ...
    Series series Daily Telegraph Letters
    The essential humour gift book of the year returns in the anticipated fourth volume of this bestselling series Ð guaranteed to provoke laughter and amazement.The first volume of unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph, Am I Alone in ThinkingÉ?, not only became a Christmas bestseller but also established the paperÕs letter-writers as a uniquely waggish, eccentric and maverick institution. They ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • East Garston - Stations of the Great Western Railway GWR

    Stations of the Great Western Railway, #7

    by Charles Darvelle ...
    Series Book 7 - Stations of the Great Western Railway
    An enjoyable history of one of the long vanished branch line stations on the Great Western Railway.East Garston is no more. The site remains, but there is little to show where this once bustling village railway station and its level crossing once stood. East Garston handled a wide variety of agricultural freight, as well as passengers and parcels.In this book we learn when East Garston was built ... Read more

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  • Family Britain, 1951-1957

    by David Kynaston ...
    Series series Tales of a New Jerusalem
    As in his highly acclaimed Austerity Britain, David Kynaston invokes an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices to drive his narrative of 1950s Britain. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife Judy Haines, relishing the detail of suburban life, brings up her children in ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Beaverbrook

    A Shattered Legacy

    by Jacques Poitras ...
    Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award and Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and National Business Book AwardWere the Gallery's treasures gifts or loans? Was Lord Beaverbrook careless or devious? Jacques Poitras sifts through the personal correspondence, takes stock of the witnesses and testimony at the 2006 arbitration ... Read more

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  • Behind Closed Doors

    The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs

    by Seth Alexander Thévoz ...
    With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thévoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. In doing so he looks at cultural and political developments beyond the clubs, revealing how while the clubs may have been products of their city and country, they also exerted ... Read more

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  • True North: In praise of England's better half

    by Martin Wainwright ...
    Abysmal weather, slag heaps, funny accents; the bleak uplands of a landscape carved out of millstone grit; townscapes of abandoned mills and shipyards; the detritus of an industrial revolution well past its sell-by date. These, all too often, are the gloomy perceptions of 'the north', the foundations for the belief that northerners spend their lives battling hardship and misery, and that nothing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Brittle with Relics

    A History of Wales, 1962–97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON)

    by Richard King ...
    Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change .'Richly humane, viscerally political, generously multi-voiced, Brittle with Relics is oral history at its revelatory best.'DAVID KYN ASTON'Fascinating.' OBSERVER'Powerful.' LITERARY REVIEW'Inspired.' ... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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