Places & Peoples: General & Pictorial Works

Harpenden: The Postcard Collection depicts a vibrant selection of over 170 images captured during the first half of the twentieth century by a smal...

Portsmouth Dockyard has a long and distinguished history. Functioning in a naval capacity since 1495, although more active as a dockyard from the V...

Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses punctuating Brita...

Newcastle History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous city. This new book guides us through the streets and alleyw...

The history of Orpington reaches back to the Stone Age, but it was during the nineteenth century that the suburban town and surrounding areas began...

From the popular Abbot Hall and Kendal Parish Church, to the maze of streets, yards and hidden history, Billy Howorth takes you on a tour of Kendal...

The origins of the name Knutsford have been disputed by historians but there is an ancient and popular explanation. After one of his victories, Kin...

Few countries went through the level of interest and development of pleasure piers like the United Kingdom. Built during the Victorian age and earl...

Londons East End History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous part of the city. This new book guides us through the...

Kents military heritage is well known because of popular tourist attractions such as Dover Castle or Chatham Dockyard, but there are also many less...

Famous for its coastal playgrounds and rural retreats, Sussex is a county filled with natural appeal and is just an hour from the City of London. W...

The go-to Pyrenees travel guide travel guide for discovering the best walks and car tours.    Strap on your boots and discover Pyrenees on foot wit...

The go-to Tuscany walking guide for discovering the best walks and car tours.  Strap on your boots and discover Tuscany on foot with the Sunflower ...

The go-to Fuerteventura travel guide travel guide for discovering the best walks and car tours.   Strap on your boots and discover Fuerteventura on...

Nantwich has been a very important town from the earliest days. It is the oldest of the three Cheshire Wiches or Wyches from which salt has been dr...

The discovery of gold on the magical date of January 24, 1848, when James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill near Coloma, started a rush tha...

Cassiobury Park has an incredible history. Not only is it one of the remnants of the greatest lost estates in the country, it is now one of the mos...

This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era. In 1967, veteran travel writer ...

Mountains and Molehills is essential reading for anyone wishing to build a mental picture of San Francisco and the Sacramento areas during the peri...

'The evening is closing in; the sun has set, leaving a hot, red glow, where his copper disk has just sunk beyond the Pacific horizon; and the eye w...

Gray Malin’s collection of incredible beach photography was a runaway hit. Now the it-photographer takes his astonishing photography beyond the bea...

Cork City, Irelands southern capital, is a place of tradition, continuity, change and legacy. It is a place of direction and experiment by people o...

From the granting of borough status in 1614 through to its development as an industrial port and then as a fashionable seaside resort, the west Cor...

The city of Liverpool is famous throughout the world. This once-small fishing village was transformed into a mighty commercial powerhouse, seen by ...

Cumbria defies any attempt to measure its true beauty. It is home to Englands highest mountain (Scafell Pike) and both the longest and deepest lake...

From the bustling heart of historic Norwich to the tranquillity of the north coast, Norfolk is a place of contrasts. Tiny villages, the agricultura...

Beautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned places, rediscovering our forgotten heritage.  'No Entry', 'Dangerous Site Keep Out' and 'Trespassers ...

Let Secret Copenhagen guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Copenhagen guide book and let ou...

This follow-up to Jason Brooks's highly successful Paris Sketchbook is a stunning gift book that brings the big smoke to life through beautiful ima...

The counties of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire are an area of transition between the north-west and the south-east, highland and lowland, pasture a...

Home to some of the world's oldest and most sacred sites - including the historic city of Jerusalem - Israel and the Palestinian Territories is an ...

Yorkshire has been at the heart of English history for over 2,000 years and has been shaped by Roman and Viking invaders, the conflict of the Wars ...