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The author, well known as the writer of more books on the city than anyone, explores Coventrys history from Roman times through Earl Leofric, Godiva and the Norman castle, to monastic houses, including St Marys priory. Coventry has a rich medieval heritage, and rose to power in the Wars of the Roses, when the royal court moved there. Major themes in the citys history are discussed, through previously unknown source material, covering the Siege and Civil War, education, health, the church, crime and punishment, and industries from medieval weaving to modern car-building.

In the past, Luton was a market town and, for many years, was also a centre for the brewing industry. In the 19th century it became famous for hat making, and more recently it has grown into a thriving industrial centre. During the Second World War it played an important part in the manufacture of army vehicles, and children bound for school had to dodge the Churchill tanks on their way to various theatres of conflict. Nowadays, Luton Airport is the gateway for all types of traveller and the town is well known for its famous football team. Luton has always provided visitors with a warm welcome and many have stayed and made the town their home. Local industry offered employment opportunities in the early 20th century and many had cause to be grateful for its relative prosperity during the Great Depression. Following the Second World War, immigrants from the Indian subcontinent and from the West Indies brought with them colourful new cultures that are celebrated in the annual Carnival. This fascinating and illustrated account of Lutons past will inform and delight anyone who lives in the town and inspire those who grew up here.

Norfolk has a wealth of important archaeological sites, historic buildings and landscapes. This guide is the first to use them to tell the countys rich history.Starting with real footprints of people who lived here nearly 1 million years ago, A History of Norfolk in 100 Places will take you on a chronological journey through prehistoric monuments, Roman forts, medieval churches and Nelsons Monument, right up to twentieth-century defensive sites. With detailed entries illustrated by aerial photographs and ground-level shots, here you will find a reliable guide to historic places that are either open to the public, or are visible from public roads or footpaths for you to explore.

Stourbridge came into existence in the early Middle Ages. It has seen much development from Roman and Saxon times and during the reigns of Elizabeth and Victoria. More changes followed in the 20th century; though an agricultural market town it is also renown for its glass-making.

Surrey affords good examples of prosperous peasant life at the woodland margin in the Middle Ages and had some of the best developed industry before the Industrial Revolution. The landscape gardening which has made the county unrivalled in its still beautifully contrived scenery is a major contribution to the arts of Western Europe. "Dr. Brandon is meticulous in charting Surreys growth ... detailed but not dull ..." Surrey Advertiser.

Whitby is well known today as a seaside resort and a picturesque place to visit, with its piers, boats, fine sands and, overlooking its tangle of red-roofed houses, the ruins of its Abbey in one of the most splendid settings in Britain for such romantic remains. But few of its many visitors would guess the long history of the town or its significance, from time to time, in national affairs. Its fine natural harbour, one of the few on the east coast, gave it early importance as a place of refuge and a fishing port. The Middle Ages saw quiet growth but the 17th century brought great prosperity, with shipbuilding on a scale out of all proportion to its size. Long isolated, except by sea, Whitby developed a very distinctive set of traditions and folklore. Not until a horse-drawn railway was built in the 1830s did Whitbys inland communications improve, bringing visitors for whom hotels and boarding houses were built on the west cliff. Largely derived from its unusual past, the towns unique character draws thousands of visitors each year; and the first edition of this book, in 1993, was as much welcomed by them as by the locals. The only comprehensive history of Whitby, it rapidly sold out and Dr White, its author, of ancient Whitby stock, has now fully revised and updated his book, with some new illustrations and interpretations. This new edition will continue as the definitive work on Whitby.

Worcestershire is a county of wide, fertile valleys, drained by the Severn, the Avon, the Teme and the Stour and ringed by some of Englands best-known hills, including the Malverns and the Cotswolds.This concise but comprehensive account is based on a wealth of published and unpublished research. It is both highly readable and well illustrated, and will interest the general reader, students and local groups seeking to put their own work within a wider perspective. Particular attention is given to the settlement of the county, especially to its colonisation by the Hwicce in the sixth and seventh centuries. There are fascinating insights into the lives of ordinary people through the ages, based on records such as medieval monastic estate records and later probate inventories. Throughout, local happenings are related to national trends, and dramatic events such as the Battle of Evesham of 1265 and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 are highlighted.Contrasts between rural and urban areas are explored, and products such as the carpets of Kidderminster, the salt of Droitwich and the glass of Stourbridge are seen within a wider economic context. Information on important individuals is also examined, some of whom, such as Edward Elgar and the poet Piers Plowman, are already well known, while others emerge from local records for the first time. This book reaches right up to the 1990s, including the triumphs of Worcestershire County Cricket Club and the day-to-day concerns of the Archers in the final chapter.

La desconocida historia de la fuga del primer lehendakari, José Antonio Aguirre, de la caza de Franco y Hitler.Berlín, 14 de mayo de 1941. Un hombre de baja estatura iba y venía por el andén de la estacion Friedrichstrasse. Esperaba la llegada de un tren procedente de Bruselas. De uno de los vagones debia descender una mujer con sus dos niños. El tiempo corria y se iban reduciendo sus posibilidades de escapar de la Alemania nazi. Los visados tenian fecha de caducidad y la Gestapo le seguia muy de cerca. Pero ¿a quien se le podia ocurrir viajar a Berlin teniendo tras de si a la temida policia secreta de Hitler?Detras de la falsa identidad del panameño Jose Andres Alvarez Lastra se escondia la figura de Jose Antonio de Aguirre y Lecube. El primer lehendakari de la historia de Euskadi era consciente de que le perseguian los peores sabuesos de la policia franquista y de la Gestapo. Por esa razon estaba convencido de que si conseguia ponerse a salvo demostraria que el nazismo era vencible. El mundo democratico necesitaba obtener una pequeña victoria en su lucha contra el fascismo que desde 1939 no cesaba de triunfar en todos los frentes.La fuga de Aguirre por Belgica y Alemania nos lleva desde los campos de batalla hasta la clandestinidad, de las cloacas de los servicios secretos a los laberintos politicos y policiales que caracterizaron las ambiguas relaciones hispanogermanas. La odisea del primer lehendakari nos permite profundizar en la complicidad represiva que existio entre los regimenes de Franco y de Hitler, pero tambien conocer las diferencias y disputas que se prodigaron entre Madrid y Berlin.

Telling stories about well-known local characters of Paignton, the history of local businesses, A Paignton Scrapbook explores the truth behind various myths and legends, and, reminds readers of long-gone buildings, and bygone pubs and clubs, among others.

Walthamstow is well known as the home of William Morris, a former greyhound racing track and the boy band East 17. Its also been home to communities of people for thousands of years. This history tells the unique story of Walthamstow from the areas first Iron Age settlements to its Anglo-Saxon place names, medieval manors, agricultural hamlets and Victorian terraced housing. It includes the areas history in the twentieth century as a suburb of London. The development of Walthamstow is told from the perspective of the people who have lived there and who have helped to shape the place known around Britain today. Their stories are captured using photographs and illustrations, which bring to life how they have lived and worked over the years.

A fascinating history of an ancient place.From its first mention in legend in the Book of Invasions, through early Christian monastic settlements, castles and grand residences, Fenian raids and the Battle of Tallaght, there has been huge change in Tallaght. In more recent times it has seen car and motorcycle racing, an aerodrome, the rise and fall of a chocolate factory and a pioneering telecommunications firm. The massive population explosion and rapid modernisation towards the end of the twentieth century means this once-tiny village in Dublins foothills is now home to over 80,000 people.Richly illustrated with period photographs and original drawings by Michael OBrien, Albert Perris tells the often-surprising story of Tallaght.

This delightful book, first published in 1993, is the slightly edited version of the sixteen lectures of a course Luna had just taught, and the traces of orality are part of its appeal. It shows two of his singular facets. "Felix Luna occupies a place that is just as singular as it is essential for those of us who are committed to the knowledge and spread of history. He wrote several remarkable books, among which I have chosen two that are, in my opinion, outstanding: El 45 and Ortiz. He also promoted a fundamental undertaking, Todo es Historia, significant in attracting fresh readers and encouraging new researchers, who enjoyed the opportunity to rub shoulders in this monthly publication with the most prominent historians of the moment. This delightful book, first published in 1993, is the slightly edited version of the sixteen lectures of a course Luna had just taught, and the traces of orality are part of its appeal. It shows two of his singular facets. The first is the ability to create an intelligent synthesis of four centuries of Argentine history, which is an extremely difficult task for the specialized historian. The second is the skill for presenting the result in a way that attracts and captivates his readers". LUIS ALBERTO ROMERO

This absorbing collection of Sussex carols and customs, seasonal recipes and literary tales, plays and pastimes, re-examines the rich heritage of Christmas past from around the county. Stories range from the Anglo-Saxon era to the Second World War, encompassing urban and rural Sussex, and featuring secular and religious celebrations of rich and poor, which is sure to enthrall both long-time residents and newcomers alike.From tales of Brighton Pavilion under snow and old festive recipes to well-known seasonal songs, such as Good King Wenceslas and the traditional Sussex wassail, A Sussex Christmas provides the reader with a seasonal anthology of the county and will be a treat for all.

A Toby in the Lane reveals the rich fabric of the East End markets, primarily in Petticoat Lane and Brick Lane, and celebrates the street traders and stalls which call these London institutions home. This is the story of immigrant communities and their fight for survival, reflected in sweat and toil. Countless tales of traders scams, tricks and banter are found inside. Families who have traded throughout the generations on the market offer up a unique insight into the layers of history that up until now have remained untold. The story also traces the sometimes complicated relationships between trader and authorities in an often amusing but informative tale of London market life. A spellbinding, quirky and intimate portrait of life on the famous markets of Londons East End, written by an East End senior market inspector, A Toby in the Lane will delight Londoners and visitors alike.

Spanning 150 years of South Shields changing fortunes, A Tyneside Heritage is a pioneering work of interwoven local and family history. After the nineteenth-century boom years of coal exporting and shipbuilding for global markets came the First World War, then the mass unemployment and political turbulence of the 1930s. Luftwaffe bombing in the Second World War was followed by the peacetime challenge of attracting new industrial development. Against this background, four generations of the Chapman family played a leading role in the town and in County Durham as businessmen, soldiers, borough councillors, sportsmen, philanthropists and representatives of royalty.

Em A vida é um sonho – uma história de amor, o autor mostra como homens e mulheres, que hoje fazem parte do grupo da "melhor idade", tiveram a vida sentimental e a emocional afetadas pelo desenvolvim

___________A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022A New Statesman Book of the Year 2022Fascinating Youll learn more about the psychological workings of Nazism by reading this superbly researched chronicle than you will by reading a shelf of wider-canvas volumes on the rise of Nazism.Daily MailAn utterly absorbing insight into the full spectrum of responses from ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.The TimesBoyd is an outstanding micro-historian.iNews___________ Hidden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the picturesque village of Oberstdorf a place where for hundreds of years people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere.Yet even this remote idyll could not escape the brutal iron grip of the Nazi regime.From the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Travellers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich: an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. Drawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love; courage and weakness; action, apathy and grief; hope, pain, joy and despair. Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of life foresters, priests, farmers and nuns; innkeepers, Nazi officials, veterans and party members; village councillors, mountaineers, socialists, slave labourers, schoolchildren, tourists and aristocrats. We meet the Jews who survived and those who didnt; the Nazi mayor who tried to shield those persecuted by the regime; and a blind boy whose life was judged not worth living. This is a tale of conflicting loyalties and desires, of shattered dreams but one in which, ultimately, human resilience triumphs. These are the stories of ordinary lives at the crossroads of history.___Exceptional... Boyds book reminds us that even the most brutal regimes cannot extinguish all semblance of human feelingMail on SundayMasterly [an] important and gripping book [Boyd is] a leading historian of human responses in political extremis.The OldieGripping vividly depicted [a] humane and richly detailed book SpectatorVivid, moving stories leave us asking "What would I have done?" Professor David Reynolds, author of Island Stories"An absorbing, thoroughly recommended read"Family Tree magazine Laying bare the tragedies, the compromises, the suffering and the disillusionment. Exemplary microhistory. Roger Moorehouse, author of First to FightCompelling and evocativeAll About HistoryThe rise of Nazi Germany through the prism of one small village in Bavaria. [] Astonishing Jane Garvey on Fortunately with Fi and Janeincredibly engagingHistory of War magazine Intensely detailed, exhaustively researched and rendered in almost cinematographic detail, Julia Boyds A Village In The Third Reich is deeply evocative, redolent of those times and truly revelatory. I learned so much. This is a book I will need to return to again and again, to relearn, refresh and remember. A triumph. Damien Lewis, author of The Flame of Resistance

El autor, obispo emérito de Abancay (Perú), cuenta su infatigable labor pastoral, respondiendo a su vocación como sacerdote diocesano de la Sociedad Sacerdotal de la Santa Cruz: los viajes apostólicos, su tenaz labor social en beneficio de los pobres y desplazados, y su trabajo en favor de las vocaciones, con la creacion de dos seminarios."Al recordar tantas iniciativas de toda clase, salta al cielo mi agradecimiento sincero a instituciones internacionales y a personas particulares que han hecho posible tanta maravilla.(...) Me siento tambien cordialmente agradecido a san Josemaria Escriva por haberme hecho posible tanta aventura divino-humana, y por haber sido sostenido y alentado por el espiritu que de el herede."

A guide to over 60 of Britains most notable abbeys and monasteries.Taking you on a journey that has inspired pilgrims and visitors for centuries, Abbeys and Priories of Britain is the perfect introduction to some of the countrys oldest and most beautiful religious centres.The guide will take you from the wilds of the Isle of Iona in Scotland and Iona Abbey to Tintern Abbey in the beautiful Wye Valley in Wales, to the pomp and circumstance of Westminster Abbey, shining regally in Englands capital. While many of the entries are now ruins due to Henry VIIIs Dissolution of the Monasteries period, a visit still reveals the rich influence and legacy they have had on Britains history.Beautifully illustrated with over 130 stunning colour images, and with concise and accessible history for each entry, this is both a perfect guide and a much-cherished souvenir of a visit.Includes extended entries on Binham Priory, Blanchland Abbey, Buckfast Abbey, Dryburgh, Fountains Abbey, Glastonbury Abbey, Hexham Abbey, Holyrood Abbey, Jedburgh Abbey, Lindisfarne Priory, Melrose Abbey, Mountgrace Priory, Rievaulx Abbey, Selby Abbey, Strata Florida Abbey, Tewkesbury Abbey, Tintern Abbey, Westminster Abbey, Whitby Abbey and St Georges Windsor.

15th August 1903 - On this day Aberdeen Football Club played its first match, holding Stenhousemuir to a 1-1 draw. 21st April 1943 - Luftwaffe bombers dropped 130 bombs on Aberdeen, killing ninety-seven civilians and twenty-seven soldiers. 15th August 1963 - On this day Henry John Burnett was hanged at Craiginches Prison, Aberdeen the last execution to take place in Scotland. Experience 100 key dates that shaped Aberdeens history, highlighted its peoples genius (or silliness) and embraced the unexpected. Featuring an amazing mix of pivotal, social, criminal and sporting events, this book reveals a past that will fascinate, delight and even shock both residents and visitors to this Scottish city.