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Take a journey down winding lanes and Roman roads in this witty and informative guide to the meanings behind the names of England’s towns and villages. Deciphering our place names reveals how generations of our ancestors lived, worked, travelled and worshipped, and how their influence has shaped our landscape.
An entertaining and informative look at thousands of years of history to shed light on the words and phrases we use most often – and where they came from.
Sunday Times bestselling author Caroline Taggart brings her usual gently humorous approach to punctuation, pointing out what really matters and what doesn’t.
We take summer holidays for granted but, back in the 1940s, the picture was very different. War had gripped Britain. Wave after wave of bombs fell, beaches were closed off, and petrol was rationed by the forbidding question, ‘Is your journey really necessary?’ But the summer days (with double summer time) seemed to go on forever, war or no war – and British families were determined to make the best of their paralysed country. For evacuated children, this meant freedom that is unimaginable today: wandering at will, discovering wildlife in fields and ponds, foraging from orchards and hedgerows and swimming in the streams. Elsewhere, country estates were requisitioned for the war efforts, the tennis courts given over for training and the Lord and Lady of the manor sent packing! In this book, Caroline Taggart shows us how Britons succeeded in keeping up spirits in spite of the constant devastation of battle.
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