Nostalgia: General

If you owned a car in 1960s Britain, then youll love this blast back in time to when driving was still fun, highway speed limits were unheard-of (w...

Being a housewife in the 1950s was quite a different experience to today. After the independence of the wartime years, women had to leave their job...

Do you remember Beatlemania? Radio Caroline? Mods and Rockers? The very first miniskirts? Then the chances are you were born in the or around 1960....

Florida is a civilized place with eighteen million residents and all of the modern amenities one might expect: fine universities, art museums, worl...

Joyce Gibson Roach has collected snippets of stories, recipes, and traditions of life in Turtle, Texas, which represents many small townsand the pe...

Famed for his railway hand-books - recently rediscovered through Michael Portillo's television series on the great railway journeys - George Br...

We might love our eggs mini, but theres nothing small about our new cookbook. We know the importance of a tasty t...

'Water is Life and Heaven's Gift. Here Rivers Goyt and Tame Become Mersey. Flowing Clear From Stockport to the Sea' The Mersey springs to life in t...

The East Anglian herring fishing industry can trace its roots back to before the Norman's arrived in 1066. The main ports, and great rivals were Gr...

The aim of this series is to appeal to readers of all ages, perhaps for different reasons...In this volume: We travel back to the year 1977, as eve...

Journey into the heartland of rural Ireland, in words and images, from the 1930s to today. Meet the characters behind the Ploughing Championships, ...

Have you ever wondered how a dinosaur would measure up against the Great Pyramids of Giza, if a hummingbird could outfly a jet plane, or how many a...

A history of Ely

No turkey. No fruit to make a decent pudding. No money for presents. Your children away from home to keep them safe from bombing; your husband, fat...

This illustrated history provides a nostalgic look at the Lake Districts past and highlights the special character of some of its most important hi...

With a few sorry exceptions, it's heartening to think that the gardener or bird-spotter of the 1950s or 60s would immediately recognise most of the...

This 79th volume in the growing Recollections series takes us on a journey from Birmingham to Cheltenham. Departing from Birmingham''s Snow Hill st...

Knaresborough has many secrets, and as you walk down the streets you are walking through history. There are clear reminders of the towns past every...

Changed by the 1950s, Norwich was to alter even more during the 1960s. Increased traffic would be met with widened roads and a new flyover, while L...

This is the 49th volume in the Recollectios series and the second title published by Silver Link to celebrate the Talyllyn Railway. As with all th...

Like so many youngsters in the 1950s and 1960s Alan Clarke was a keen railway enthusiast and spnt a number of years out and about with his ABC Comb...

We've been sending one another postcards for well over a century now - usually brief messages to our friends and family telling them about the weat...

A fabulous slice of wartime nostalgia, a facsimile edition of the manual used by the Land Girls during the Second World War. With millions of men a...

'If only stones could speak.' Often, when we visit historic towns, churches, castles, or old family mansions, we wish that the people who were once...

After successfully developing a series of funfairs, Billy Butlin progressed to opening holiday centres and hotels across the UK to provide families...

The ''Golden Valley Line'' - is so called due to the descent from the summit of the line at Sapperton Tunnel to Gloucester being cut through a yell...

Where were Cut Throat Alley and Heathen Street? How many could be hanged at one time and where? Who won the battle of the town undertakers? Secret ...