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WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? MAGAZINE (BACK ISSUES IN STOCK)

By: N/A

Price: £3.00

Publisher: BBC Magazines:

Seller ID: 42556

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Good

Looking for a missing issue for your collection? Back issues of the family history magazine in stock - please contact us with your requirements. ; Illustrated.
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COLLECT CHANNEL ISLANDS STAMPS (SEVENTH EDITION) + COLLECT CHANNEL ISLANDS AND ISLE OF MAN STAMPS (4TH EDITION)

By: N/A

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Stanley Gibbons Publications Ltd.:

Seller ID: 66270

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Two booklets; corners of a few pages creased, otherwise good in creased card covers. Published 1978+1987. 56pp+122pp. ; A Stanley Gibbons checklist of stamps and postal history. Illustrated.
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SLIPWARE

By: Barker, D.

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd.: 1993

Seller ID: 43869

ISBN: 0747802211

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Good

Booklet; good in scuffed and creased card covers. ; Illustrated. ; 32 pages
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TECHNIQUES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION (THIRD EDITION)

By: Barker, P.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Berg Publishers: 1999

Seller ID: 55840

ISBN: 041515152x

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Paperback; previous owner's inscription to title page, otherwise good in creased card covers. ; Third Revised Edition. Illustrated. ; 285 pages
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BOARD AND TABLE GAMES FROM MANY CIVILIZATIONS

By: Bell, R. C.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1960

Seller ID: 26845

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Hardback without dustjacket; foxing to edge of pages otherwise good in original boards. ; An introduction to some of the best board and table games from ancient times from around the world. Includes race games, war games, positional games, mancala games, dice games and domino games. The rules of the games, plus brief biographies of games compilers and historians. With 164 b/w illustrations & photographs. ; 208 pages
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A HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE : CRISIS AND CHANGE

By: Bideleux, Robert & Jeffries, Ian.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Routledge: 1998

Seller ID: 65828

ISBN: 0415161118

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Hardback without dustjacket; blemish to edge of pages otherwise very good in pictorial boards. First edition. ; A wide-ranging single volume history of the 'lands between', the lands which have lain between Germany, Italy, and the Tsarist and Soviet empires. The problems that have bedevilled this troubled region during its imperial past, the interwar period, under fascism, under communism, and since 1989. Study mainly focusing on the modern era and on the effects of ethnic nationalism, fascism and communism. Maps. ; 685 pages
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BASKETWORK THROUGH THE AGES

By: Bobart, H. H.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: The Basketmakers Association: 1997

Seller ID: 51854

ISBN: 0951111027

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Paperback; very good in card covers. ; Reprint of the 1935 edition. Illustrated. ; 174 pages
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EAST OF THE SUN : THE CONQUEST AND SETTLEMENT OF SIBERIA

By: Bobrick, B.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Heinemann: 1992

Seller ID: 57475

ISBN: 0434928895

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair in Good dust jacket

Hardback; pages heavily yellowed (low quality paper) , otherwise good in price-clipped dustjacket. ; The story of its conquest and settlement from the 1580s to the late twentieth century. Illustrated. ; 542 pages
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THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1781-1997

By: Brendon, P.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: 2007

Seller ID: 61643

ISBN: 0224062220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; light foxing to edge of pages (low quality paper) otherwise good in lightly creased dustjacket. ; Illustrated. ; 793 pages
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RIOT, REVELRY AND ROUT: SPORT IN LOWLAND SCOTLAND BEFORE 1860

By: Burnett, J.

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Tuckwell Press: 2000

Seller ID: 37899

ISBN: 1862320039

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Paperback; very good in card covers. ; A history of sport in Scotland from medieval times until the early years of Victoria's reign. Illustrated. ; 287 pages
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THE BASQUES

By: Collins, R.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Blackwell Publishers: 1986

Seller ID: 58918

ISBN: 0631134786

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

The Peoples of Europe. Hardback; very good in very good dustjacket. First edition. ; Illustrations & maps. ; 272 pages
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BOOKBINDER'S FINISHING TOOL MAKERS 1780-1965

By: Conroy, T.

Price: £24.99

Publisher: Oak Knoll Press / the Plough Press: 2002

Seller ID: 50260

ISBN: 0902813161

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

New hardback copies. Issued without dustjacket. ; Illustrated. +xliipp. ; 300 pages
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WRITING THE PAST

By: Davies, J.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Stuart Press: 2005

Seller ID: 45649

ISBN: 1858042062

Binding: Booklet

Condition: New

Booklet, new copies. ; A guide to the methods, materials and manners as well as hands used between the years 1300-1660. Illustrated. Includes a practical guide to making a quill pen. ; 35 pages
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A SHORT HISTORY OF CODES AND CIPHERS 400BC TO 1660AD

By: Davies, J.

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Stuart Press: 2003

Seller ID: 46834

ISBN: 1858042151

Binding: Booklet

Condition: New

Booklet, new copies. ; Illustrated. ; 12 pages
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HISTORY ON LONDON WALLS

By: Day, E. M.

Price: £7.00

Publisher: J. L. Workman & Co.: N.D.

Seller ID: 18065

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Hardback; foxing to endpapers otherwise very good in pictorial boards. (no published date, circa1950s. ) ; 'A guide to the past as remembered by the present'. The commemorative wall plaques with locations in London. Illustrated by Alec Campbell. ; 92 pages
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THE EDINBURGH HISTORY OF SCOTLAND (4 VOLUME SET)

By: Donaldson, G.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Mercat Press:

Seller ID: 45410

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Four Volume Paperback set . Vol 2 and 4 - dent to corners of pages, otherwise a good clean set that look unread. ; Vol 1: The Making of the Kingdom; Vol 2: The Later Middle Ages; Vol 3: James V-James VII; Vol 4: 1689 to the Present (c.1977). Reprints published 1996-1998. 705+695+470+449pp.
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CORNISH EXPLOSIVES

By: Earl, B.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: The Trevithick Society: 1978

Seller ID: 60108

ISBN: 0904040135

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Hardback without dustjacket; ; The Cornish explosives industry from the 1800s to the 1970s. Illustrated. ; 317 pages
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MY CRAZY LIFE : THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BUD FLANAGAN (SIGNED COPY)

By: Flanagan, Bud.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Frederick Muller Limited.: 1961

Seller ID: 66955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Hardback; boards faded and discoloured, pages yellowed, otherwise good in creased, yellowed, torn and part-missing dustjacket. Inscribed to previous owner by the Author. Signed by the Author. ; Autobiography of one of the Crazy Gang - a group of British entertainers, formed in the early 1930s, and popular through the 1950s. Illustrated. ; 207 pages
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THE BRETONS

By: Galliou, P. & Jones, M.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Blackwell Publishers: 1991

Seller ID: 58919

ISBN: 0631164065

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

The Peoples of Europe. Hardback; boards dented otherwise very good in creased dustjacket. First edition. ; Illustrations & maps. ; 334 pages
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RIGAS VESTURES UN KUGNIECIBAS MUZEJS / MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF RIGA AND NAVIGATION

By: Galvanovska, I.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Hinstorff: 1992

Seller ID: 63820

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; very good in scratched dustjacket. Text in English, Latvian & German. Unpaginated. ; Catalogue of some of the 400,000 items in the collection. Illustrated with 500 colour photographs, with captions.
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IN THE SADDLE: AN EXPLORATION OF THE SADDLE THROUGH HISTORY

By: Gilmour, L. (edited. )

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Archetype Publications: 2004

Seller ID: 46962

ISBN: 1873132891

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

New paperback copies at a reduced price. ; Based on a 2002 conference of the Archaeologicial Leather Group. Topics include Roman saddles, Anglo-Saxon saddles, Medieval war saddles, Stuart saddles, archaeology, conservation and re-construction. Illustrated with 50 colour photographs and illustrations. ; 96 pages
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PORT HUENEME: A HISTORY

By: Greenland, P.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ventura County Maritime Museum: 1994

Seller ID: 56716

ISBN: 0870951114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; corners of boards dented, otherwise very good in creased dustjacket. ; A history of the Port of Hueneme, California. Illustrations & maps. ; 174 pages
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THE TOWER MENAGERIE: BEING THE AMAZING TRUE STORY OF THE ROYAL COLLECTION OF WILD AND FEROCIOUS BEASTS

By: Hahn, D.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2003

Seller ID: 32291

ISBN: 0743220811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

New hardback copies at a reduced price; published £15.99.; The six hundred year history of London's first zoo. Illustrated. ; 260 pages
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COLLECTING BABY RATTLES AND TEETHERS

By: Hersey, M.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Krause Publications: 1998

Seller ID: 55008

ISBN: 0870697668

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Paperback; dent to corners of a few pages otherwise good in lightly creased card covers. ; Nearly 300 colour photographs of rattles and teethers from around the world. ; 160 pages
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SURREY CLAY TOBACCO PIPES

By: Higgins, D.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: BAR: N.D.

Seller ID: 40655

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Paperback; corner crease to a few pages otherwise good in creased cards covers. ; Reprinted from 'The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe VI. Pipes and kilns in the London region' ed. Peter Davey; pub.1981. Illustrated. ; 100 pages
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THE NORTHERN COUNTIES TO AD 1000

By: Higham, Nick.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Longman: 1986

Seller ID: 65401

ISBN: 0582492769

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

A Regional History of England. Paperback; blemish / stain to edge of pages (not effecting text) in creased card covers. A good reference copy. ; The historic counties of Northumberland, Cumbria, Tyne and Wear, Durham and northern Cleveland. Illustrated. ; 392 pages
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PEWTER: A CELEBRATION OF THE CRAFT, 1200-1700

By: Hornsby, P. R. G. , Weinstein, R. , & Homer, R. F.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: The Museum of London: 1989

Seller ID: 65406

ISBN: 0904818365

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Paperback; otherwise good, in creased card covers. ; Catalogue of the Museum of London exhibition, held May 1989 -May 1990. Illustrated with 150 b/w photographs and illustrations. English pewter, production, development, and examples ; 112 pages
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THE MIDDLE CLASS - A HISTORY

By: James, L.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Little, Brown: 2006

Seller ID: 61642

ISBN: 0316861200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; spine a little pulled (due to weight of pages) light foxing to edge of pages (low quality paper) otherwise good in lightly creased dustjacket. ; A history of the British middle class from the 1300s to the mid-2000s. Illustrated. ; 690 pages
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CLOAKBAG AND COMMON PURSE : ENCLOSURE & COPYHOLD IN 16TH CENTURY PETWORTH

By: Jerrome, P.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Ythe Window Press: 1979

Seller ID: 64167

ISBN: 0950483002

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Paperback; good in scratched card covers. Reprint. ; The case of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland and his allegedly illegal enclosure of his tenants' copyhold land at Petworth in Sussex. Illustrated. ; 111 pages
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EMIGRANTS AND EXPATS: A GUIDE TO SOURCES ON UK EMIGRATION AND RESIDENTS OVERSEAS

By: Kershaw, R.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Public Record Office: 2002

Seller ID: 55001

ISBN: 1903365325

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Public Record Office Reader's Guide No.20. Paperback; very good in lightly creased card covers. ; A guide to the wealth of records charting the history of UK emigration from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century. Illustrated. ; 127 pages
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YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN : THE ANTIQUES AND HISTORY OF CHILDCARE

By: Kevill-Davies, Sally.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Antiques Collectors' Club: 1998

Seller ID: 65829

ISBN: 185149135x

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; foxing to endpapers otherwise good in creased dustjacket. Reprint. ; A history of child-raising over the last four centuries, and the everyday objects which were used. With 72 colour illustrations, 315 b/w illustrations. ; 316 pages
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ANTIQUE ADVERTISING ENCYCLOPEDIA VOLUME II

By: Klug, Ray.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Schiffer: 1985

Seller ID: 51359

ISBN: 0887401414

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Hardback; edge of pages yellowed otherwise good in marked pictorial boards. ; A pictorial study, with b/w and colour photographs. Antique and old signs, match holders, door pushes, gum machines, cigar cutters and lighters, pails, pot and pan scrapers, music artwork, Heinz food containers, brewery trays and other items. Includes (1985) price guide. ; 240 pages
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SCOTTISH (DORIC) - ENGLISH / ENGLISH-SCOTTISH (DORIC) CONCISE DICTIONARY

By: Kynoch, D.

Price: £8.99

Publisher: Hippocrene Books: 1998

Seller ID: 59270

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Paperback; fine in card covers. ; A guide to the Scottish language. A two way lexicon of North-East Scots with 12000 entries. ; 186 pages
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REINTERPRETING SCOTLAND'S LAST TWO CENTURIES OF INDEPENDENCE

By: Lenman, B.

Price: £2.00

Publisher: The Historical Journal: 1982

Seller ID: 34749

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Fair

Booklet; some foxing and creasing to pages otherwise good. ; Academic offprint taken from the Historical Journal, 25, 1 (1982) pp. 217-228.; 12 pages
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THE GENERAL RULE : A GIDE TO CUSTOMARY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

By: Linacre, Vivian.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: The Squeeze Press: 1993

Seller ID: 65495

ISBN: 1906069018

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Paperback; edge of pages a little yellowed otherwise very good in card covers. ; The historical and cultural background to the imperial system. Illustrated. ; 208 pages
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THE ENGLISH PIG: A HISTORY

By: Malcolmson, R. & Mastoris, S.

Price: £4.99

Publisher: Hambledon and London: 2001

Seller ID: 29277

ISBN: 1852853352

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

New paperback copies at a reduced price; published £16.99.; Illustrated. ; 160 pages
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THE ARMS OF KRUPP 1587-1968

By: Manchester, W.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown & Company: 2003

Seller ID: 58211

ISBN: 0316529400

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Paperback; lean to spine otherwise very good in card covers. ; The rise and fall of the industrial dynasty that armed Germany at war. Illustrated. ; 976 pages
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THE NORTHERN COUNTIES FROM AD 1000

By: McCord, N. & Thompson, R.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Longman: 1998

Seller ID: 64486

ISBN: 0582493331

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair in Fair dust jacket

A Regional History of England. Hardback; dent to spine and corners of pages, blemish to edge of pages, otherwise good in faded and creased dustjacket. ; The historic counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland and the Furness area of Lancashire over 1000 years. ; 460 pages
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A HISTORY OF BACKGAMMON FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO 1800

By: Miller, R.

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Stuart Press: 2013

Seller ID: 41757

ISBN: 1858042895

Binding: Booklet

Condition: New

Booklet; new copies. ; The origins and history of backgammon, and the development and movement of the game from the Arab world into Europe. Illustrated. ; 40 pages
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THE HISTORY OF CHESS FROM ITS ORIGINS TO 1600

By: Miller, Richard.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Stuart Press: 2011

Seller ID: 37007

ISBN: 1858042534

Binding: Booklet

Condition: New

Booklet; new copies. ; A brief study tracing the origins of chess. The information contained should help the re-enactor portray the game, pieces, board and play from its origins to the early modern period. ; 28 pages
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THE INDOMITABLE BEATIE : CHARLES HOARE, C.B. FRY AND THE CAPTAIN'S LADY (SIGNED COPY)

By: Morris, R.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Sutton Publishing: 2004

Seller ID: 58170

ISBN: 0750937106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; pages yellowed (low quality paper) ; otherwise good in price-clipped dustjacket. Inscribed by Author to previous owner. Signed copy. ; Revised and expanded edition of 'The Captain's Lady' first published 1985. Beatrice Holme Sumner, the 'Gloucestershire Scandal' and the training ship 'Mercury'. Illustrated.; 171 pages
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READING TUDOR AND STUART HANDWRITING

By: Munby, Lionel. , Hobbs, Steve. & Crosby, Alan.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: British Association for Local History: 2002

Seller ID: 64830

ISBN: 1860772374

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Paperback; light crease to corners of pages otherwise good, in creased card covers. Second revised and extended edition. Uncommon. ; Guide to reading 16th and 17th Century documents. Includes alphabets of Secretary Hand and Court Hand, punctuation, numerals and dates, rules and conventions of transcribing. Illustrated. ; 56 pages
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SEX CRIMES FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO ENLIGHTENMENT

By: Naphy, W.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Tempus: 2004

Seller ID: 57915

ISBN: 0752429779

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

New paperback copies at a reduced price; published £12.99.; A history of the changing attitudes to sex through three centuries. Sex with man, beast and Satan. Illustrated. ; 255 pages
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JACKDAW NO.140: CHINA - A CULTURAL HERITAGE

By: Norman, M. & Evans, P.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Jackdaw Publications: 1968

Seller ID: 22496

ISBN: 0305620851

Binding: Other

Condition: Good

First edition. Card folder yellowed and creased, tape binding part-missing; contents creased. A good set. Complete set. ; Set of facsimile documents, pamphlets and historical background material in a card folder.
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A HISTORY OF VENICE

By: Norwich, J. J.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 1983

Seller ID: 57949

ISBN: 0140066233

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Paperback; very good in creased card covers. Reprint. ; Major English study of Venetian history; first published in two volumes. Illustrations & maps. ; 673 pages
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CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE IN ENGLAND 1500-1850

By: Outhwaite, R. B.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: The Hambledon Press: 1995

Seller ID: 65434

ISBN: 1852851309

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; very good in scratched dustjacket. ; New perspectives on a central social and religious institution. Illustrated. ; 196 pages
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THE CRAZY GANG : A PERSONAL REMINISCENCE

By: Owen, Maureen.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 1986

Seller ID: 66954

ISBN: 0297789872

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; pages yellowed (low quality paper) otherwise good in faded and creased dustjacket. ; The story of the Crazy Gang - a group of British entertainers, formed in the early 1930s, and popular through the 1950s. Illustrated. ; 150 pages
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HERTFORDSHIRE CHILDREN IN WAR AND PEACE 1914-1939

By: Parker, D.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press: 2007

Seller ID: 41160

ISBN: 1905313403

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

New paperback copies at a reduced price. ; A social history of Hertfordshire from the outbreak of the First World War until the outbreak of the Second World War; with particular emphasis on the development of education and attitudes towards the young. Illustrated. ; 378 pages
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THE COMMON STREAM

By: Parker, R.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Granada Publishing Limited.: 1979

Seller ID: 64166

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Paperback; pages yellowed (low quality paper) otherwise good in faded and lightly creased card covers. Reprint. ; Foxton, Cambridgeshire - the story of its development over two thousand years. Illustrations & maps. ; 252 pages
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THE GREAT ROBBERY

By: Peace, J. W. G.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Commonweal Press Limited: 1933

Seller ID: 64169

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Hardback without dustjacket; very good in faded and scuffed original red cloth boards. First edition, November 1933. ; The author was one of the founders of the Commonwealth Land Party, which campaigned for the redistribution of land. Illustrated. ; 128 pages
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Category: General Social History