Nostalgia: General

The village of Virginia Water shares its name with the lake at the southern end of Windsor Great Park that was created in 1746 by William Augustus,...

The success of From Havering Village to Harold Wood put this historically neglected north-east corner of the London Borough of Havering on the map ...

Cranleigh has claimed for some time to be the ‘largest village’ in England. As long ago as the 1920s, travel writers were dismissing it as a villag...

A fair amount has been written over the years on aspects of the history of Tavistock, much of it in recent times by Gerry Woodcock. There has, howe...

Nestling in the Windrush Valley at the 'Gateway to the Cotswolds,' the small west Oxfordshire town of Burford is well known for its picturesque qua...

The Eglinton Tournament, held in August 1839, was intended to be the most magnificent and glorious expression of the nineteenth-century revival of ...

For the century after 1865 all the largest railroad companies had flagship luxury trains, spectacularly appointed steamliners offering unrivaled st...

This book offers an in-depth engagement with the growing body of Anglophone Arab fiction in the context of theoretical debates around memory and id...

A personalised memory book, photo album, poetry book, creative gift to celebrate and remember mums. A perfect gift for Mother’s day, birthdays, Ch...

Fifteen-year-old Smiler is still on the run. Smiler is aiming to evade the police until his father, a ship’s cook, comes home to clear him of a cr...

Freckled fugitive Smiler is never far from trouble. After hitching a ride south, Smiler finds his way to North Devon and the estate of the 'The Du...

Discover the rise of the motorhome and caravan over the past 100 years.Follow the story of the UK’s motorhomes, from a slow start in 1913 and the f...

Fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jeffries and Kristin Hannah will love this uplifting and moving wartime saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bes...

Between 1933 and 1939, representations of the Nazis and the full meaning of Nazism came slowly to Hollywood, growing more ominous and distinct only...

Toronto Trailblazers explores the influence of seven key women who, despite pervasive gender bias, helped advance a modern literary culture for Can...

Follow the story of the touring caravan for over 100 years.From its origins as a rich man’s pastime in the early twentieth century, the modern tour...

Color your way through 1980s pop culture with Best of the ’80s Coloring Book! Mix coloring with nostalgia, and you have an upbeat activity book tha...

Color your way through 1990s pop culture with Best of the ’90s Coloring Book! Mix coloring with nostalgia, and you have an upbeat activity book tha...

First published in 1979, the Usborne Book of the Future is a fondly-remembered book from a time when people dreamed of the future as a place filled...

'The pride in who we are is not part of our past, it defines our present and our future' - The QueenFrom Big Ben to James Bond, from the Battle of ...

In Modern Quilting discover the versatility, comfort and style that a beautifully designed quilt can bring to your home.Long seen as a traditional ...

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