London’s record shops
£20.00The first hardback photobook celebrating London’s greatest record shops
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A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital
£12.99London: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This unremarkable place – not even included in the Domesday Book – became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the largest empire in history. And rising from the rubble of the Blitz, it is now one of the greatest cities in the world. From the prehistoric occupants of the Thames Valley to the preoccupied commuters of today, Simon Jenkins brings together the key events, individuals and trends in London’s history to create a matchless portrait of the capital.
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Pulse Glass: And the beat of other hearts
£16.99Before doctors had access to accurate pocket watches, they timed a patient’s pulse with a 30-second sandglass. A ‘pulse glass’ was a functional piece of medical equipment, designed to measure a life, never intended to survive for centuries. But Gillian Tindall inherited her great-great-grandfather’s pulse glass, which holds the heartbeats of many by-gone generations and offers a portal to 19th-century Anglo-Irish life, to her grandmother’s marriage and the assorted fates of the next generation. A personal and global history in objects, Gillian Tindall traces the memories and meanings that accrue to the artefacts of human lives through time.
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A-Z of Kingston upon Thames
£15.99Explore the town of Kingston-upon-Thames in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.
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Remarkable Village Cricket Grounds
£25.00In the original book he covered some of the largest stadia where cricket is played throughout the world. In Remarkable Village Cricket Grounds he concentrates on the smallest.
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The Long and Winding Road
£9.99From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson’s multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey, almost unimaginable in today’s Britain. This third volume tells of Alan’s early political skirmishes as a trades union leader, where his negotiating skills and charismatic style soon came to the notice of Tony Blair and other senior members of the Labour Party. As a result, Alan was chosen to stand in the constituency of Hull West and Hessle, and entered Parliament as an MP after the landslide election victory for Labour in May 1997. His book takes you into a world which is at once familiar and strange: this is politics as you’ve never seen it before.
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London Prints & Drawings Before 1800
£30.00This book contains over one hundred images of the Greater London area before 1800 from maps, drawings, manuscripts, printed books and engravings, all from the Gough Collection at the Bodleian Library. Examples are drawn from the present Greater London to contrast town and countryside at the time. A fascinating insight into life in Georgian London.
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Kingston upon Thames in 50 buildings
£15.99Explores the rich and fascinating history of the city through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
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Long & Winding Road
£16.99When Tony Blair brought Alan Johnson into Parliament in 1997, it was something of a culture shock. Blair famously said to him ‘Oh, so you really are working class aren’t you’. But Alan eventually took to the corridors of power as to the manner born, fuelled by his passionately held principles and his loyalty to his constituents in Hull West and Hessle. But this is no self-aggrandising memoir of politicking and skulduggery. Prepare to see Westminster as you’ve never seen it before.
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Londons Strangest Tales
£9.99A quirky collection of stories from London’s stranger side, featuring a tiny prison cell in Trafalgar Square, a train disguised as a ship, and a church that’s completely the wrong way round.