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What exactly is an abbey and does it differ from a priory This book clarifies the seeming confusion by answering these questions and much more besides. This new edition, in a larger format, includes descriptions of over 200 individual sites open to the public and over 90 colour photographs.

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This book sets out to show that there are few pastimes as fascinating, enjoyable and rewarding for the enthusiast of modest means as collecting books.

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This book examines the development of the various styles of military head-dress badge from 1751, to the introduction of 'cap badges' in 1894. Buttons are dealt with from 1767 to 1881.

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Charts the history of the British Army by using one of its most distinctive aspects - its regimental traditions. This work describes the emergence of a royal army under Charles II and its expansion during the eighteenth century, the formation of its militia, the yeomanry and the Territorials, the distinction of the Household Cavalry and more.

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This book traces the changes in the years from 1945 to 1965 when there were considerable advances in photography and in cameras.

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This book helps to identify ecclesiastical architecture. It is a dictionary explaining in simple language over 600 terms likely to be encountered on a church visits and is illustrated with more than 300 drawings.

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This book aids the recognition, understanding and historical interpretation of the surviving cottages in England and Wales. Their changing forms, quality and methods of building are explained and illustrated.

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Dowsing and divining - the tracing of underground water, minerals, pipes or cables. This book sets out to prove that anyone can dowse, and it also dispels the commonly accepted myth that dowsing is a gift enjoyed by a few practitioners.

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Inscriptions on gravestones yield fascinating information about the dead, their lives and occupations and the way they lived.

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Featuring black and white photos of some of the old buildings that claim to be haunted and locations of where ghosts can be seen, this book reveals some British ghost stories.

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This book not only tabulates the hallmarks that enable the identification of silver items but also traces the history of English silver, describing some famous makers and providing hints on spotting fakes.

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There are more than thirty major figures cut out of the grass on Britain's hillsides; cut as religious symbols, way markers, or as decoration to the landscape. Often, although prominently placed, the figures are overlooked. This book describes their exact location, the best point to view them and their history and legends.

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Horse brasses are flat, generally round, ornaments for decorating the harness of draught horses. This book traces the history of horse brasses, from the plain, simple early examples through to the more advanced brasses that were developed as our knowledge of brass casting improved. It includes 200 photographs of different horse brasses.

Following the Industrial Revolution the ingenuity of Victorian manufacturers produced an enormous range of horse-drawn agricultural machinery. This book describes these machines and includes drawings of many of them, as well as photographs.

Curiosity is the desire to know or learn, inquisitiveness about trifles or other people's affairs, a curious matter or investigation, a vanity, a curious detail or feature. This book introduces readers to a London full of curiosities.

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London is the supreme railway city. In 1900 it had fourteen railway termini, more than any other city in the world. This book provides the history of the principal termini, featuring key aspects of architectural design and engineering and also highlights anecdotes, myths, and curiosities about the stations' social and cultural history.

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"Discovering London's Docklands".

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Presents a fresh approach to the development of houses between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries - from Norman to Tudor times.

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Describes eight walks through the historic parts of London, down city byways, past unsuspected treasures, to discoveries that are inaccessible from an open-topped bus. This book includes instructions, maps and photographs of points of interest en route.

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Traces the evolution of oil lighting and places on record details of the many fine lamps which served our forebears so well.

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Contains descriptions of sixty board games, drawn from an immense range of history - from 3000 BC through to the turn of the nineteenth century.