Bob Clarke

'Royal Wootton Bassett History Tour' provides a fascinating glimpse into the past of this Wiltshire market town. Its royal patronage was conferred in 2011 following the local tributes at the military repatriation funeral processions, which had passed through the town since 2007, for personnel brought home from Iraq and Afghanistan. In this book, Sarah and Bob Clarke guide readers around the town's streets and buildings, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they have changed over the years, as well as exploring some of its lesser-known sights and hidden corners. This pocket-sized guide reveals how the town has altered and highlights the way of life for past generations. With the help of a handy location map, readers are invited to discover for themselves the history and the changing face of Royal Wootton Bassett.

In November 1726, England was shocked by the astonishing news that Mary Toft, a poor cloth-worker's wife from Godalming, was giving birth to rabbits. When King George heard of this medical miracle, he sent two of his royal surgeons down to Surrey to investigate. They both delivered rabbits from Mary on separate occasions. After giving birth to seventeen rabbits, Mary was brought to London where; "great Numbers of the Nobility have been to see her and many Physicians have attended her, in order to make a strict Search into the Affair". Mary's story was a great gift to Grub Street. As well as providing several months of sensational material for the newspapers, it inspired a host of pamphlets, caricatures, ribald ballads, and satires, and made the medical profession look a bunch of gullible fools. This well-researched but entertaining book will appeal to anyone who is interested in the quirkier side of history, covering a sensational event that generated hilarity and anxiety, splitting the nation between those who believed the births were genuine and those who considered them fraudulent. As well as being a human-interest story, it deals with print culture, medical developments, and beliefs, among other aspects of eighteenth century life.

Over 300 images in this book of the lovely Ivory. I work with her for many years and photoshoots still continue. she is an amazing woman and one of the sweetest people I know.

This book Contains many years of photography with the amazing BamBam.

This book Contains many years of photography with the amazing BamBam. in Black and White

Over 4 years of photo shoots with Liza, A very sweet, and wonderful woman to work with. In Black and White

over 3 years of photo shoots with Poco in Black and white

Over 4 years of photo shoots with Liza, A very sweet, and wonderful woman to work with.

Britain’s Cold War covers each decade from the 1940s to the 1990s, when the country lived in the shadow of nuclear conflict and the West was locked in a worldwide struggle against communist powers. Now consigned to history, the era remains a vivid memory for many, and the events of the period are still echoed in conflicts around the world today. Using an evocative collection of images of Britain over five decades, author Bob Clarke brings this fascinating period of British history to life.

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Devizes has changed and developed over the last century.

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Royal Wootton Bassett has changed and developed over the last century.

From the late 1940s to the fall of Communist Russia, Britain was at war. To the general public much of it was imaginary but the Cold War was real nonetheless. Flaring up in 1962, with the Cuban missile crisis and in the 1980s with the standoffs between Reagan and Thatcher on one side, with the Soviet leaders on the other. There are many remains today from 'secret' nuclear bunkers to missile sites, early-warning radar sites, huge research establishments and, of course, spy sites such as GCHQ. Bob Clarke tells the story of the myriad Cold War remains, illustrated with 150 images, most never published before. He explains the need for our defences and the consequences of nuclear war.

Wiltshire contains some of the most important archaeological sites in Britain.Its Prehistoric remains include the breath-taking Stonehenge, awesome stone circle at Avebury , the enigma of Silbury Hill and a large number of hillforts. Among these important sites are also found smaller, perhaps lesser-known monuments of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, including the King Barrow cemetery and Woodhenge. Bob Clarke, author of numerous books on military archaeology and history, takes us on a tour of the prehistoric sites in this archaeologically-rich county, using aerial photography and outstanding images, which accompany the informative text. All proceeds from this book go to the Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Society's appeal to update the current Bronze Age Gallery at the museum in Devizes.

The shocking story of the first attack on mainland Britain for more than a century.

Britain's Cold War started in 1945 after the fall of Nazi Germany. With Europe split apart into spheres of influence, and East distrusting West, it soon became apparent that the next war would be between Communism and Capitalism. It was an idealogical war, fought not on the battlefields of Europe but in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and numerous other small-scale battlefields in Asia and Africa. With the threat of mutually assured destruction between the nuclear powers, the Cold War was about confrontation on a small scale, never between the superpowers, but with the might of the superpowers backing opposing sides. Britain became a mini fortress, with American lend-lease bases, missile sites, radar installations, airfields full of jets ready to scramble, as well as nuclear bunkers and command centres located in the countryside. Bob Clarke, author of Four Minute Warning: Britain's Cold War, takes us on a guided tour of Britain's Cold War, showing us the installations, the plans and just what would have happened if Britain had gone to war with the Eastern Bloc states.

'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.' So said Winston Churchill in 1946. About to begin was Britain's most expensive and turbulent periods of military history. This is the story of Britain's Cold War, and it deals with all aspects of this chilling time when Britain could have been obliterated so easily by the unleashing of Russian Nuclear Weapons. The Cold War was like no other conflict yet experienced. It was more than a struggle between two superpowers, it was a war of ideologies, the Capitalistic West and the Communist East. The Cold War leached its way into every facet of British life to the extent it was not really considered a war at all. But a war it was. The period was punctuated by an arms race which pushed the world to the edge of destruction, as both East and West amassed arsenals of nuclear weapons far beyond what would be needed to destroy, quite literally, everything. So what part did Britain play in all this? Read on and find out!

On 26 June 1954 a small private venture development aircraft built by Hunting Percival Ltd made the first of three proving flights at Luton. Driven by the performance of jet fighters in the Korean War the British Government sponsored the development of the aircraft - the Jet Provost. By 1959 the first 'All Through Jet Training' courses in the world were being run by the Royal Air Force. Over 500 aircraft were constructed for the RAF alone, in fact practically every Royal Air Force pilot from 1960 until 1988 had time on the aircraft. Jet Provost variants were sold to foreign powers including from 1966 the Strikemaster, a very effective counter insurgency and close ground support armed development. Since retirement the aircraft has gone on to be a popular private jet with examples flying all over the world. This is the first time all phases of the Jet Provost's development have been discussed and illustrated in one publication. Containing personal accounts, test and development results and presented against a backdrop of major political events this is the story of the Jet Provost - The little plane with a big history.