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Oxfordshire, a land-locked county, is rich in geology, varied in landscape, steeped in history. With an area of 1, 007 square miles, a population of 560, 000 and towns such as Oxford, Abingdon, Banbury, Henley, Witney and Woodstock, Oxfordshire is one of the most literate - and visited counties in Britain.

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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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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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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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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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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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This book is both a guide and a history, exploring the curious and entertaining glories of Oxford through two of the most famous fantasies in world literature.

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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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Traces how social change transformed Scotland from the 1970s, expressed through politics, culture and identity.

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Traces how social change transformed Scotland from the 1970s, expressed through politics, culture and identity.

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This is the story of the upland, rural community of Glenesk, told from the perspectives of the people themselves and covers many aspects of glen life. The book looks at people's changing relationships with the landscape, the buildings they lived, worked and worshipped in, and the tools they used.

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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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This is the unique story of one of Scotland's most significant cities seen in the context of wider developments in Scottish and British history. Featuring essays by leading interdisciplinary researchers at the University, it is impeccably researched yet accessible to the non-specialist reader.

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

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Christina MacDonald MacQueen was born on St Kilda and grew up there at the close of the 19th century. Before the islands' evacuations, she wrote a series of passionate articles about her childhood and the history of the islands. These writings offer a personal and uniquely female perspective on the island's story and its imminent abandonment.

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