Local history
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50 Finds From Hampshire
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Alfred Waterhouse in Twyford
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Cider With Rosie
£9.99Cider With Rosie
This is a vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belonging to a now distant past.
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Geology
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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Folk Tales
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Hampshire and Isle of Wight ghost tales
£10.99Hampshire and Isle of Wight ghost tales
The stories in this haunting collection are as ancient and recent, powerful and fantastical, real and imaginary as the ghosts they feature. Here you will find chilling tales of a pond that fills with blood on Lammas Eve; a plague coach careering down a remote country lane; lost tombs in the forest; hovering skulls and something unnamable lurking in a Southampton sewer, all brought to life by noted storyteller Michael O’Leary.
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Hampshire Past & Present
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Hampshire Smugglers’ Pubs
£9.99Hampshire Smugglers’ Pubs
This lively guide will lead you to a significant number of authentic pubs patronised over two centuries ago by Hampshire smugglers, where you can experience directly a sometimes unexpected slice of the county’s colourful history.
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Hampshire’s Military Heritage
£15.99Hampshire’s Military Heritage
Hampshire’s Military Heritage looks at the military legacy of this county on land, by air and at sea from Roman times to the present day.
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Hanged At Winchester
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Haunted Hampshire
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Haunted Winchester
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James Cawthorn, George Austen and the Curious Case of the Schoolboy Who Was Kill
£12.99James Cawthorn, George Austen and the Curious Case of the Schoolboy Who Was Kill
This book focuses on the twenty-year tenure of James Cawthorn – one of the most significant headmasters in the history of Tonbridge School.
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New Forest Through Time
£15.99New Forest Through Time
This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which the New Forest has changed and developed over the last century.
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Once Upon a Tome
£14.99Once Upon a Tome
Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackville Street (est. 1761) to interview for their bookselling apprenticeship, a decision which has bedevilled him ever since. He’d intended to stay for a year before launching into some less dusty, better remunerated career. Unfortunately for him, the alluring smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap proved irresistible. Soon he was balancing teetering stacks of first editions, fending off nonagenarian widows with a ten-foot pole and trying not to upset the store’s resident ghost. For while Sotheran’s might be a treasure trove of literary delights, it sings a siren song to eccentrics. This book is the rather colourful story of life in one of the world’s oldest bookshops and a love letter to the benign, unruly world of antiquarian bookselling.
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Secret New Forest
£15.99Secret New Forest
Secret New Forest explores the lesser-known history of the New Forest area through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.
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