Unearthing London reveals the almost-forgotten ritual landscape which lies hidden beneath the streets of the modern capital. It is the city nobody knows, a vast and intricate ne...
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In the years since the 7/7 attacks on the London transport system, many people in Britain seem to have become convinced that we live in uniquely dangerous times and that the thr...
Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging f...
Seven years after the Roman invasion of Britain in ad 43, Londinium was created. It would rise to become one of the most important Roman cities in Northern Europe. Life in Roman...
Not a Guide to: Kensington and Chelsea
Simon Webb · ISBN 9780752466330
Julkaistu 2012 Kieli englanti nidottu
This is not a guidebook. This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of Kensington & Chelsea. Learn about the movers and shakers who shaped this fantastic...
Do you remember playing in streets free of traffic? Dancing to the Beatles? Watching a man land on the Moon on TV? Waking up to ice on the inside of the windows? If the answer i...
Not a Guide to: Kingston upon Thames
Simon Webb · ISBN 9780752479682
Julkaistu 2012 Kieli englanti nidottu
This is not a guidebook. This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of Kingston upon Thames. Learn about the movers and shakers who shaped this fantastic...
Taking you through the year day by day, The Colchester Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods in the history of B...
Following the disruption, hardship and challenges of the Second World War, the post-war years brought a sense of optimism and excitement, with families at last enjoying peacetim...
What was it like being a teenager in a world without computers, smartphones, DVD players, games consoles or the Internet? Imagine a time when sharing music meant taking a record...
A Little Book of English Saints
Simon Webb · ISBN 9780993598210
Julkaistu 2015 Kieli englanti nidottu
The Battle of Neville's Cross: The Whole Story
Simon Webb · ISBN 9780993598234
Julkaistu 2017 Kieli englanti nidottu
In October 1346 the Scottish king David II invaded England with as many as thirty-two thousand men at his back. The outcome of the battle he was soon forced to fight at Neville'...
In Search of the Celtic Saints
Simon Webb · ISBN 9780993598258
Julkaistu 2017 Kieli englanti pokkari
Despite the vast amount of work written and published about London, there has never before been a full-length book covering the history of that part of the Thames Valley before...
A Dean who liked to box in public, a Minor Canon who was a famous fisherman, and a poor butcher's son who made a fortune from coal are among the characters in Simon Webb's book...
Shakespeare's Sources: An Illustrated Introduction
Simon Webb · ISBN 9781096108313
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti nidottu
Alfred Poland, George Elt and the Victorian Discovery of Poland Syndrome
Simon Webb · ISBN 9781098989941
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti nidottu
'. . . although Alfred Poland discovered Poland Syndrome, the condition was not named after him for well over a century.'Poland Syndrome is a congenital condition that may affec...
The Origins of Wizards, Witches and Fairies
Simon Webb · ISBN 9781399000079
Julkaistu 2022 Kieli englanti sidottu
This book tells the fascinating story of the origin of our ideas about wizards, witches and fairies. We all have a clear mental image of the pointed hats worn by such individual...
For many of us, the very expression Concentration Camp is inextricably linked to Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust. The idea of British concentration camps is a stra...