Britain

Synopsis What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite - or is it something less ...

Synopsis In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the Unite...

Synopsis Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports sh...

Synopsis Villages of Britain is the history of the countryside, told through five hundred of its most noteworthy settlements. Many of Britain's vil...

Synopsis Author : John Barton A travel guide describing 16 individual itineraries of Britain for the traveller concerned more with wandering into l...

Synopsis Illustrated with striking photographs and useful maps. Urban & industrial historian & prolific author Anthony Burton offers an ori...

Synopsis National Benzole (A Petrol Company) then ran a series of books from 1954 to 1962 entitled Our National Heritage. (Published with The Natio...

Synopsis Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of ...