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Deals with the extraction methods of various types of stone and the rise and slow decline of quarrying across the UK. This book covers some of the most famous and notable quarrying sites.

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Stories from Britain's largest oral history project.

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Step into the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history. Culminating in a dramatic last stand between brothel keepers and crusading reformers, this book presents a vivid snapshot of America's journey from Victorian-era propriety to 20th-century modernity.

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Tells the story of an experiment in social democracy carried out by a Labour-controlled council which envisaged the bomb shattered city as a model of urban regeneration and imaginative planning. This volume mixes memoir, family history and scholarship to paint a portrait of Coventry.

(Paperback, Rebrand to Tauris Parke on reprint)

The Cyclades are the quintessential Greek isles, renowned for the beauty of their seascapes, their historical monuments and a unique way of life deeply rooted in the remote past of the Aegean. This guide to the Cyclades describes these enchanting islands.

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Through a collection of coloured holiday photographs covering all the major - and several minor - resorts around England's coast, linked to selected written commentaries from Charles Dickens and many others, this book celebrates the heyday of the seaside holiday.

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A flight of imagination back to a time when London was green meadows and rolling hills, dotted with babbling brooks. Join Tim Bradford as he explores the lost rivers of London.

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Manchester's town hall and its Royal Exchange epitomise the city's architectural grandeur and its industrial heritage. This title relates the remarkable and diverse history of this England's second city, covering various areas of human activity and incorporating the events and key moments in the city's history.

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'The Potteries' is the name given to the industrial area in the English Midlands that was home to hundreds of pottery-making companies. This title presents an introduction to the industrial history of the Potteries, its major firms and the men and women who produced pottery for Britain and the world.

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Traces the legendary silk route from China to the UK and explores the developments in silk production once it reached Europe, the changes to the loom, the popularity of silk clothing, and the industry's struggle with the removal of tariff protection. This title guides us through the ups and downs of the silk industry.

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This book illuminates the history of one of Manchesters most influential families. Charting the lives of Henry, Emily, Ernest and Shena Simon, it demonstrates their significance through tracing their work in engineering innovation, enriching Manchesters civic culture, and in shaping local government, housing and education.

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This deeply researched book offers a unique history of Londons most famous street, from the Roman era to the present day.

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From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Assassination Vacation" and "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" comes an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, deep-rooted idealism, political and cultural relevance, and their myriad oddities.

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The Hansom cab is one of the most striking images of the Victorian city, but it was not the only type of cab in use during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. This title traces the origins of the horse cab and the improvements in its design in the period, and celebrates the cab drivers themselves, who had a reputation for quick-wittedness.

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Jet, a hard, black, shiny gen, closely related to coal, has been fashioned into jewellery and trinkets for generations, but during the Victorian period, when the ritual surrounding death and the long mourning of Queen Victoria made black fashionable, jet became hugely popular. This book traces the history of jet and the Whitby jet industry.

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From 1918 to the modern day, Roger Hutchinson tells the story of the Stornoway Trust, and of the people who guided their pioneering estate into the relative security and prosperity of the 21st century. In doing so he paints a vivid portrait of a unique landholding experiment, of Highland land struggle and of the island of Lewis itself.

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This is the first book to highlight this major episode in Glasgow's history, which has been largely forgotten and yet lies at the heart of the rights of way movement in Scotland. Glasgow's citizens to defended their right of passage along the north bank of the Clyde, which served the interests and enthusiasms of ordinary working people.

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Presents the rich history of a Caithness estate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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