The First World War was won not just on the battlefields but on the Home Front, by the men, women and children left behind. This book explores the lives of the

This book brings together twelve chapters from feminist historians from around the world to offer new perspectives on aspects of the campaign for women’s suff

This is the story of Worcestershire's First World War. Using letters, diaries and journals made at the time, the book draws together the vast array of experienc

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Britain's rivers deserve to be better known. Teeming with wildlife, steeped in history, sporting bridges, docks and stunning architecture, not to mention suppor

This early work on plum and damson cultivation is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains information on pruning, manuring, picking an

For hundreds of years, the public house in its many guises, from urban gin palace to wayside coaching inn, has been a charming and quintessential feature of Bri

Over the course of many years Richard Pursehouse has painstakingly unraveled the story of a First World War prisoner of war camp which held captured German pers