Local Interest, Family History & Nostalgia
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An Ornament to the City: Holy Trinity & the Capuchin Order
Patricia Curtin-KellyCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99The planning of Holy Trinity church in Cork City began in 1825, and the building was finally completed some sixty years later. The story of its com...
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Buckinghamshire Folk Tales
Red PhoenixCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Once upon a Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire is an ancient county of Roman forts and highwaymen, motorways and urban myth. These are the Buckinghamsh...
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The Hertfordshire Colouring Book: Past and Present
The History PressCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Hertfordshire has charmed visitors for centuries, and this collection of intricate illustrations is a celebration of the countys unique appeal. Fea...
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Home Team: The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants
Robert F. GarrattCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50In 1957 Horace Stoneham took his Giants of New York baseball team and headed west, starting a gold rush with bats and balls rather than pans and mi...
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The People of Devon in the First World War
Dr. David ParkerCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Thematically divided, this fascinating study explores the experiences of many of Devons people during the First World War: soldiers; aliens and spi...
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Bohernabreena: Ireland in Old Photographs
Peter QuinnCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Bohernabreena is one of the most fascinating and historic areas in all of Ireland. Including the settlements of the Glenasmole Valley, the legend o...
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A Century of Gloucester: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century
John HudsonCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Gloucester during the twentieth cent...
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Roath, Splott and Adamsdown: One Thousand Years of History
Jeff ChildsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Over 250 old photographs, many published for the first time, appear in this new collection covering the districts of Roath, Splott and Adamsdown. T...
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The Little Book of the Isle of Wight
Jan TomsCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Did you know? A new species of cat-like dinosaur, yet to be named, was discovered on the Isle of Wight in 1988. Darwin began his world famous On th...
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The Guide to Mysterious Aberdeen
Geoff HolderCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Aberdeen is full of mysteries, marvels and strangeness, and this book is a comprehensive guide to them all. Here you will encounter magic, witchcra...
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Devonshire Folk Tales
Michael DacreCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99This collection of traditional stories and tales, many of which are published for the first time, will delight lovers of Devonshire folklore. Some ...
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Voices of North and South Ockendon
Cecilia PykeCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50This warm and nostalgic collection of memories reveals the fascinating history of North and South Ockendon before, during and after the Second Worl...
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A 1950s Holiday in Bognor Regis
Shirley LewisCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Bognor Regis is situated on the south coast of Britain, overlooking the English Channel. On 18 January 1787 the resorts founder, Sir Richard Hotham...
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Streets of Sin: A Dark Biography of Notting Hill
Fiona RuleCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99Notting Hill was not always an upmarket residential enclave and celebrity hotspot. Streets of Sin delves into the districts murky past and relates ...
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Not a Guide to: Durham
Chris DanielCurrent price €9.34Original price €10.99This is not a guidebook. This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of DURHAM. Learn about the movers and shakers who shape...
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Not a Guide to: Bridlington
Patricia Susan Dixon MacArthurCurrent price €9.34Original price €10.99This is not a guidebook. This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of Bridlington. Learn about the movers and shakers who ...
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Wicklow Folk Tales
Brendan NolanCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Wicklow is full of stories, from the farmer returned from market to find he was dead and buried, to the mysterious bird who turned into a beautiful...
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The Secret History of Southend-on-Sea
Dee GordonCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The Secret History of Southend-on-Sea is full of intriguing information on the incredible residents, visitors and events that have played a part in...
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Worthing at War: The Diary of C. F. Harriss
Paul HoldenCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Of all the historical documents charting Worthing's past, few are more important than a wartime diary called 'Hotchpot', compiled with religious de...
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The Other Famine: The 1822 Crisis in County Leitrim
Gerard MacAtasneyCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99In the summer of 1822 a bad potato crop and limited employment opportunities created famine conditions in the west and south-west of Ireland. The O...
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Clare and the Great War
Joe PowerCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Aristocrats and itinerants, unionists and nationalists, Catholics and Protestants the Great War united thousands of Clare men and women to a cause...
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Carlow Folk Tales
Aideen McBrideCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50County Carlow, where stood Dinn Righ, the seat of the ancient kings of Leinster, is steeped in history, myth and legend which is celebrated in this...
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The Claddagh: Stories from the Water''s Edge
Edith PieperhoffCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Claddagh: Stories From the Waters Edge is a combination of a long-running programme of interviews and oral history with professional photography, t...
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Portobello: Ireland in Old Photographs
Maurice CurtisCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Portobello lies on the bank of the Grand Canal, stretching from South Richmond Street to Clanbrassil Street and the South Circular Road and includi...
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Haunted Bedford
William H. KingCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions and manifestations, to eerie encounters with phantoms and spirits, this collection of stories reveals B...
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The A-Z of Curious Lincolnshire: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics
Stephen WadeCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Curious Tales from Lincolnshire is filled with hilarious and surprising examples of folklore, eccentrics, historical and literary events, and popul...
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The Little Book of Cork
Kieran McCarthyCurrent price €15.79Original price €19.99The Little Book of Cork is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about Cork City. Here you will find out about Corks...
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Samuel Bradford Town Plan Birmingham 1750
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The Movieland Directory: Nearly 30,000 Addresses of Celebrity Homes, Film Locations and Historical Sites in the Los Angeles Area, 1900-Present
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €68.84Original price €80.99The Los Angeles area feels almost alive with movie history. It is impossible to walk down any neighborhood block that didn't play host to movie ...
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Roscommon Folk Tales
Pat WatsonCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Legend has it that the magical Tuatha Dé Danann came on the wind from Tír na nÓg (The Land of Youth) and landed in Roscommon, on the Curlew Mountai...
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Corfe Castle
Annie BullenCurrent price €8.30Original price €10.50The first stone of Corfe Castle was laid more than 1,000 years ago. Since then its seen its fair share of battles, mysteries and plots. Its been a ...
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Intelligent Town: An Urban History of Swansea, 1780-1855
Louise MiskellCurrent price €25.27Original price €31.99This is the first full-length study of Swansea's urban development from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. It tells the little kno...
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Around Middlesbrough: Britain in Old Photographs
Paul MenziesCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99This fascinating collection of over 200 archive images traces some of the changes that have taken place in and around Middlesbrough during the last...
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Brunel in Bristol
John ChristopherCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Bristol and Brunel, the two are inseparable. What would the Avon Gorge be without the slender lines of the suspension bridge? The Floating Harbour ...
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Bloody British History: Plymouth
Laura QuigleyCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Bread riots and bodysnatchers! Pirates and privateers! Hell holes for Boney! The disgusting true story of Plymouths Napoleonic prison ships! A very...
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Ware Through Time
David PermanCurrent price €15.79Original price €19.99Having grown up as a small Roman settlement where Ermine Street crossed the River Lea, Ware came into its own in the Middle Ages as an important st...
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The Newcastle Book of Days
Jo BathCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Taking you through the year day by day, The Newcastle Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from differen...
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Exploring Ireland''s Historic Towns
Pat DarganCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Exploring Irelands Historic Towns sheds new light on the streets and squares of Ireland, drawing our attention to the historic context in which the...
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Remembering Wexford
Nicky RossiterCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99In the final instalment of what might be called his Wexford Quartet, Nicky Rossiter sets about Remembering Wexford, and adds to his personal recoll...
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Johnstown Castle: A History
Liam GaulCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99The harmony between great castles and their ornamental grounds is rarely seen in such perfect form as at Johnstown Castle. The gardens and grounds ...
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Waterford Folk Tales
Anne FarrellCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50The mountains and spectacular coastline of County Waterford are rich in traditional stories. Even today, in the modern world of internet and superm...
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Haunted Carlow
Cormac StainCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Discover the dark side of Carlow with this collection of spine-chilling tales from across the county. Just what was staying in Brown Street? Who is...
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Harold''s Cross: Ireland in Old Photographs
Joe CurtisCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Harolds Cross got its name from a cross which marked the boundary of the lands owned by the Archbishop of Dublin, and the lands of the Harold clan ...
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Haunted Cork
Darren MannCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Discover the darker side of Cork with this collection of spine-chilling tales from the archives of the Paranormal Database. Featuring stories of un...
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Devon Family Names
Maxwell HooperCurrent price €15.79Original price €19.99A history of Devon family names
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Paranormal London
Neil ArnoldCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50With almost 2,000 years of continuous habitation, it is no surprise that the city of London can boast a fascinating array of strange events and par...
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More Bristol Murders
Nicola SlyCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99This chilling follow-up to Bristol Murders brings together more true-life historical murders that shocked not only the city but frequently made hea...
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