Throughout the Second World War, Suffolk airfields and the airmen of Bomber Command made a large ...

This book is divided into three sections. Trevor Yorke first charts the origins of the abbey and ...

The Gothic revival began in the early years of Victoria's reign. It quickly became the dominant f...

Staffordshire has a long history of involvement in aviation. In 1916 the Royal Flying Corps arriv...

The farmers of Lincolnshire are an independent-minded hardworking group. Over the centuries they ...

Twenty dog-friendly country walks with the maximum off-lead time. The walks vary in length from 2...

For local historians too, they are of crucial interest; in particular those undertaking research ...

In the search for ancestors, names are the starting point. Here is a solid working guide for fami...

Somerset was not in the front-line during the early stages of the war, and its airfields initiall...

The bottle ovens of Stoke are a familiar sight and a reminder of an era when thousands of local p...

Today we take so much for granted, but it wasn't always so! Just a hundred years ago barely half ...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Shropshire had just two operational airfields - Shawbury...

The Vickers shipyards and docks at Barrow built warships as fast as they could to feed through to...

The Blackpool Aviation week in 1909 marked the beginning. Early pioneers performed a number of fl...

RAF Bomber Command lost 55,000 men during WWII. Their motto was Press on Regardless and the major...

Kiddiwalks in Norfolk

A full account of the part played by Norfolk's airfields during the Second World War. The history...

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A full account of the part played by the Thames Valley airfields during the Second World War, inc...

Yorkshire was home to Bomber Command's 4 Group. August 1942 saw the creation of the Pathfinder Fo...

From abscesses, agues and aphrodisiacs to wormwood, wounds and zambuk (a one-time popular skin oi...

A full account of the part played by Lancashire's airfields during the Second World War. The hist...

An account of the part played by the airfields in the Lothians during the Second World War; the p...

Tales of Victorian man-made failures, follies and disasters which were forgotten or swept under t...

First hand aircrew recollections of their wartime service, all set against the stark hazards of p...

The contribution of Scotland's airfields during the Second World War is sometimes underestimated ...

A full account of the part played by Hampshire's airfields during the Second World War. The histo...

Cheshire's contribution to the war effort was massive and it began well before the outbreak of ho...

The entries in this book are based on an encyclopedic approach, each full of interest and informa...

This book describes the re-building of Britain after the Frist World War. Bold advances were made...

In this excellently researched book, Graham Smith describes the air war in Cambridgeshire, and th...

An A-Z of ghostly hauntings covering each county of England, this illustrated book contains stori...

By the middle of the 18th century, with the relaxation in the laws governing its import, Lancashi...

The First World War of 1914-18 affected nearly every family in Britain, as well as those whose ho...

Norfolk was one of the most important counties used by Bomber Command in the last war. From airfi...

A full account of the part played by Gloucestershire's airfields during the Second World War. The...

A dictionary of over 1400 alphabetical entries which explain those key days in the calendar year ...

A comprehensive guide for those researching their family tree and ancestors in all three armed se...

At the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, such was the build-up of men and mater...

The military photographs in family albums stand out as different and distinctive and the sight of...

Martyn Chorlton has a detailed knowledge of the history of Bomber Command and he describes here t...

Around the wild and windswept Cornish coast fishing has been a way of life for centuries. Sons ha...

Author Stan Yorke takes a look at the story of public transport, explaining how services develope...

Using the internet has become the easiest and quickest way to find source material and informatio...