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  • THE LOST STORY OF THE WILLIAM AND MARY
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    THE LOST STORY OF THE WILLIAM AND MARY
    GILL HOFFS
    The emigrant ship William and Mary departed from Liverpool with 208 British, Irish, and Dutch emigrants in early 1853. Captained by young American Timothy Stinson, the vessel was sailing for New Orleans when the ship wrecked in the Bahamas in mysterious circumstances. Instead of grounding the ship on a nearby shore or building rafts for the passengers, Stinson and the majority ...

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  • DARK VALLEYS
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    DARK VALLEYS
    GARY DOBBS
    Dark Valleys collects together more than a century of murders that took place in and around the valleys of South Wales. These horrific crimes shocked not only Wales, but also made national headlines. Although treated with compassion and sensitivity by the Welsh author and crime historian Gary M. Dobbs, these true stories are often gruesome and harrowing, with no details spared ...

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  • WHAT'S THA PLAYING AT NAH?
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    WHAT'S THA PLAYING AT NAH?
    MARTYN JOHNSON
    Welcome to What's Tha Playing At Nah?, the fourth volume of Martyn Johnson's acclaimed series of stories about policing during the 1960s and 1970s. Whether 'on the beat' or 'as CID', once again Martyn enthralls, surprises and shocks his readers with tales set in an almost forgotten era: a veritable Lost World of people, places and phrases in his beloved Sheffield. Steven Spielb...

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  • TRACING YOUR HOUSE HISTORY
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    TRACING YOUR HOUSE HISTORY
    GILL BLANCHARD
    "With its practical slant and focus on demystifying unfamiliar property documents, this is the perfect introduction to tracing a house history." —Family Tree Magazine Anyone who wants to find out about the history of their house—of their home—needs to read this compact, practical handbook. Whether you live in a manor house or on a planned estate, in a laborer's cottage, a tied ...

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  • THE WILLS OF OUR ANCESTORS
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    THE WILLS OF OUR ANCESTORS
    STUART A. RAYMOND
    "Almost every book on English research highlights the need to examine the wills of our ancestors. . . . [this book] gives us an easy to read detailed guide." — FGS Forum What are wills, and how can they be used for family and local history research? How can you interpret them and get as much insight from them as possible? Wills are key documents for exploring the lives of our a...

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  • SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC
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    SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC
    SUE BLACKHALL
    A fascinating biography of the British explorer whose legendary expedition to the South Pole was shrouded in controversy and tragedy.   Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868-29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January ...

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  • OFFSHORE FERRY SERVICES OF ENGLAND & SCOTLAND
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    OFFSHORE FERRY SERVICES OF ENGLAND & SCOTLAND
    PETER C. SMITH
    The United Kingdom comprises thousands of islands and for many centuries transport between the main islands and the outlying communities has required reliable shipping routes, both long and short-haul, for commerce, trade and travel. Ferries have become an essential means of transport for many outlying populations and down the years routes have continually changed and been adap...

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  • WOMEN'S LIVES
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    WOMEN'S LIVES
    JENNIFER NEWBY
    "Helps you put those in your female line into context, whether they were factory workers, Land Girls, aristocrats, or even criminals!" — Family History Monthly   Women's lives have traditionally gone unrecorded in history. But housewives, factory girls and servants all had their own distinctive voices, and, if you know where to look, there are plenty of sources to explore.   Je...

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  • FAMILY MATTERS
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    FAMILY MATTERS
    MICHAEL SHARPE
    Family history is one of Britain's most popular pastimes. Around six million people in Britain are researching their family trees, and genealogy is one of the top categories for online searches. The opening up of public records, the growth of family history societies and the introduction of computers and the internet have made the subject accessible to everyone. Yet, while ther...

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  • ME AND MY MG
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    ME AND MY MG
    GORDON THORBURN
    A collection of heartwarming personal stories from MG owners around the world. Read about the Berkshire restorer who saw a heap of old iron in the bushes and realized it used to be a 1926 bullnose Super Sports; and the seven-year-old boy in Norfolk, Virginia, who read a book called The Red Car and knew that one day he would have to have a TC; and the Dutch boy who saw an MGB on...

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  • TRACING YOUR RURAL ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR RURAL ANCESTORS
    JONATHAN BROWN
    Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who lived and worked in the countryside as farmers, laborers, landowners, village tradesmen and professionals for most of us have rural ancestors. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, these people have rarely been written about with the family historian in mind. No previous book has provided a guide ...

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  • TRACING YOUR ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR ANCESTORS
    SIMON FOWLER
    This accessible, well-organized, easy-to-use beginners guide to the world of family history is essential reading for anyone who wants to find their way into this fascinating subject. In a series of short, practical chapters Simon Fowler takes readers through all the first steps that will reveal the lives of their ancestors and the world they lived in. He looks at every aspect o...

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  • WOMEN IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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    WOMEN IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    COLLETTE DRIFTE
    Women in the Second World War explores the experiences of women who served in the armed forces, or complimentary services. Using interviews, anecdotes, memoirs and/or accounts from the women (or, where appropriate, their children), the book tells the women's personal accounts of what their lives were like and what particular experiences they had while serving. They were all ord...

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  • THE POCKET GUIDE TO OPERA
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    THE POCKET GUIDE TO OPERA
    ANNA SELBY
    Everything you need to know about opera in one handy guide. Part of our best-selling Pocket Guide series, The Pocket Guide to Opera contains A-Z synopses of operas and biographies of the characters, lyricists and composers. The book features the history of opera, setting it in the context of its day and discussing the influence of world events and influences such as the Freemas...

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  • THE ADVENTURES OF SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
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    THE ADVENTURES OF SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
    M. J. TROW
    Sir Samuel White Baker is one of those larger-than-life heroes only the Victorians could invent. For too long, the British Empire has been denigrated and equated with arrogance at best and racial bigotry at worst. Samuel Baker transcends that. He was an explorer and naturalist, recording new species on his many travels; a big game hunter with huge expertise across continents; a...

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  • SIR MARTIN FROBISHER
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    SIR MARTIN FROBISHER
    TALIESIN TROW
    Sir Martin Frobisher was one of the great sea dogs of Elizabethan England. He was a pirate and a privateer - he looted countless ships and was incarcerated by the Portuguese as a young man - and he aided Sir Francis Drake in one of his most daring voyages to attack the Spanish in the West Indies. But Frobisher was also a warrior who was knighted for his services against the Spa...

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  • TRACING YOUR LEGAL ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR LEGAL ANCESTORS
    STEPHEN WADE
    The law had as much influence on our ancestors as it does on us today, and it occupies an extraordinary range of individuals, from eminent judges and barristers to clerks and minor officials. Yet, despite burgeoning interest in all aspects of history and ancestry, lawyers and legal history have rarely been looked at from the point of view of a family historian. And this is main...

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  • TRACING YOUR SHIPBUILDING ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR SHIPBUILDING ANCESTORS
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Anthony Burton's concise and informative guide to British shipbuilding will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or find out about the life of a shipbuilder and his family. In a clear and accessible way he traces its development from the medieval period to its peak in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and on into the present day. He de...

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  • TRACING YOUR LIVERPOOL ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR LIVERPOOL ANCESTORS
    MIKE ROYDEN
    Tracing Your Liverpool Ancestors' gives a fascinating insight into everyday life in the Liverpool area over the past four centuries. Aimed primarily at the family and social historian, Mike Royden's highly readable guide introduces readers to the wealth of material available on the citys history and its people. In a series of short, information-packed chapters he describes, in ...

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  • TRACING YOUR CRIMINAL ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR CRIMINAL ANCESTORS
    STEPHEN WADE
    A comprehensive introduction to researching British criminal history with information on national and local archives that family historians can use. Did you have a criminal in the family, an ancestor who was caught on the wrong side of the law? If you have ever had any suspicions about the illicit activities of your relatives, or are fascinated by the history of crime and punis...

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  • THE STORY OF HMS REVENGE
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    THE STORY OF HMS REVENGE
    ALEXANDER STILWELL
    This sweeping naval history chronicles the many British vessels to bare the name Revenge, from the sixteenth-century galleon to the twentieth-century submarine. The glory years of the Royal Navy can be glimpsed between Sir Francis Drake's Revenge and the Polaris submarine of the same name, built four centuries later. In its various forms, Revenge was at the Armada, the Azores, ...

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  • PIRATE HUNTER
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    PIRATE HUNTER
    GRAHAM A. THOMAS
    On 2 August 1708 Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships, the Duke and Duchess, on an epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make him famous. His mission was to attack, plunder and pillage Spanish ships wherever he could. And, as Graham Thomas shows in this tense and exciting narrative, after a series of pursuits and sea battles he returned laden with bo...

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  • TRACING YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS
    ROSEMARY WENZERUL
    Rosemary Wenzerul's lively and informative guide to researching Jewish history will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to find out about the life of a Jewish ancestor. In a clear and accessible way she takes readers through the entire process of research. She provides a brief social history of the Jewish presence in Britain, with descriptions of the principal communities...

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  • OUTRAGE AT SEA
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    OUTRAGE AT SEA
    TONY BRIDGLAND
    This, the follow-up to Naval Atrocities in World War 2, is an anthology of shameful incidents at sea, causing outrage on both sides. The sinking of the Lusitania was the trigger of these events, which were played out, at least initially, while an anguished and undecided America looked on. Later in the War, the Hospital Ships, carrying wounded troops home from the theatres of wa...

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  • KEEPING THE PEACE
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    KEEPING THE PEACE
    DAVID HAWKINGS
    An illustrated history of the UK's nuclear weapons program. In 1940 two scientists, refugees from Nazi Germany, wrote a memorandum which was to prove one of the most significant documents of the twentieth century. In it, they outlined proposals for the manufacture of a uranium-fueled 'super bomb.' The paper propelled Britain into the forefront of research into nuclear weapons a...

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  • LADYSMITH
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    LADYSMITH
    LEWIS CHILDS
    In 1899 the Boers, armed with the latest European rifles and artillery, drove through Natal to help themselves to a seaport—Durban—only to spend their energies in laying siege to the market and railway town of Ladysmith. ...

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  • SERRE
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    SERRE
    JACK HORSFALL / NIGEL CAVE
    The tiny French hamlet of Serre is the subject of this guide. It covers four battles for the high ground upon which Serre is situated: June 1915: July 1916: November 1916 and July and August 1918. ...

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  • POZIERES
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    POZIERES
    GRAHAM KEECH
    The village sits on top of the ridge that bears its name, a ridge that was an objective on the 1st July 1916. As it was, the whole position was not finally cleared until early September 1916 as German, Australian and British troops fought tenaciously over it. ...

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  • THE BATTLES OF ST ALBANS
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    THE BATTLES OF ST ALBANS
    PETER BURLEY / MICHAEL ELLIOTT / HARVEY WATSON
    St Albans is unique in having been the site of two pivotal battles during the Wars of the Roses, yet this is the first book-length account to have been published. It offers a gripping account of the fighting, and of the politics and intrigue that led to it, and it incorporates the results of the latest research. The authors also plot the events of over 500 years ago onto the tw...

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  • FAMOUS CHARACTER DOLLS
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    FAMOUS CHARACTER DOLLS
    SUSAN BREWER
    Part of the popular Famous series, Famous Dolls celebrates dolls in film, TV, cartoons, books, comics and comic strips, as well as toys such as Hamble in Playschool. It also explores the world of celebrity dolls including stars such as Shirley Temple and Mae West, pop star dolls including Michael Jackson and Cher, and dolls representing royalty. Written by leading doll expert, ...

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