by Hugh Barker
Hedge enthusiast Hugh Barker journeyed across Britain to explore its remarkable variety of gardens and hedgerows. Informative, revealing and anecdotal, it's a sweeping history of Britain as you've never seen it before.
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by Richard Cowley
The complete history of policing in Britain from Alfred the Great's shire reeves to David Blunkett's PSCOs. Richard Cowley's history of the British police charts its development throughout the whole country.
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by Richard Filmer
Examines the history of the hop industry from the earliest times to the present day, describing the traditional tools of the trade, the growers and the pickers.
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by Lucy Worsley
Accompanies Lucy Worsley's BBC TV series. This intimate history of British home life reveals much about the house and the people who have lived there over the centuries.
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by Hallie Rubenhold
For over two hundred years the story of Lady Worsley, her vengeful husband, and her lover, George Maurice Bisset, lay forgotten. Now Hallie Rubenhold, in her impeccably researched book, throws open a window to a rarely seen view of Georgian England
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by Alison Maloney
For fans of Downton this fascinating look at the real life experiences of servants in Edwardian stately homes reveals the secrets of life below stairs.
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by Alfred Williams
First published in 1915 this gives an amazing insight into the appalling working conditions in the foundries, blast furnaces and engine sheds of the Great Western Railway's Works at Swindon prior to the First World War.
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by Pamela Horn
Examines the complex social hierarchy which existed within the Victorian Country House. If your ancestor was in service this provides a fascinating insight into their world.
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by Michelle Higgs
Compares the differing medical treatments received by rich and poor in Victorian hospitals.
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by Chris Upton
Back-to-backs were once the commonest form of housing in England, home to the majority of working people in Victorian cities, but they have now almost entirely vanished from our urban townscape.
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