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From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions and manifestations, to eerie encounters with phantoms and spirits, this collection of stories reveals Bedford's darker side.

Full of the warmth and excitement of growing up in the 1950s, awakening nostalgia for times that seemed cosy and carefree with families at last enjoying peacetime, this book is packed with the experience of school days, playtime, holidays, toys, games, clubs and hobbies conjuring up the genuine atmosphere of a bygone era.

Old Nottinghamshire punishments

Whether it's white ladies, old ladies, monks, miners, blacksmiths, beggars, or bears, horses, hounds, priests or poltergeists, unwilling brides or all too willing femmes fatales, Dark Age warriors, Roundhead troopers, or phantom narrowboats, Gloucestershire's hidden places are seething with spooks.

The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Birmingham offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the A'war to end all warsA`.

As the author rose through the ranks, his memories paint a picture of a changing organisation and a changing Ireland, recounting his involvement with Presidency of Eamon De Valera and the visit of Pope John Paul in 1979.

Oskar is a Luftwaffe conscript whose sweetheart, Elsa, was forced to flee Berlin for Ireland two years before. When she discovers Oskar, injured and foraging for food in her kitchen, he becomes a rare and exciting secret. After a chance encounter with Elsa, Charlie, a young medical student, finds himself falling in love.

In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the Second World War's most daring operations and the first for Britain's legendry Special Operations Executive.

This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of Kingston upon Thames. Learn about the movers and shakers who shaped this fantastic borough. Best places - worst places. Local lingo, architecture, green spaces, events, traditions, fact, fiction. Written by a local who knows what makes Kingston upon Thames tick.

This is not just `another book about Cambridge' but a unique publication that brings together all thirty-one colleges that comprise the world-famous University of Cambridge.

An army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too - yet have you ever wondered how hundreds of men on the frontline are fed amidst hails of bullets and how kitchens are created in the desert or in the trench lines?

Peterborough has a rich and fascinating history, stretching back 3,500 years to the Bronze Age. But the city has a sinister and spooky side... Written by the creator and guide of the city's popular ghost walks, discover the spooky side of Peterborough's past.

Torbay, `The English Riviera' boasts 22 miles of coastline, with 20 beaches and coves. The famous Torbay palm is in fact a cabbage tree (cordyline australis) from New Zealand. From the momentous to the outlandish, this book is packed full of fun facts and trivia about everything to do with this gem of Britain's coastline.

Yeomen of England were called to bring their own horses to form England's first Home Guard when a dictator assembled his army across the Channel in 1794. They went on to become one of the most famous mounted regiments of the British Army. During World War I they served on the frontline in the battles of Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, and Artois. In World War II they earned fame as one of the great tank regiments to be found on the frontline during the Normandy Landings, Battle of the Bulge, and the Rhine Crossings. This book weaves together military history and personal anecdotes to follow the regiment from its horsed days, parading under the Earl Spencer who promoted Nelson to fleet command, through moments of repressing civil rioters, on to the bloodiest of cavalry charges in World War I and exceptional achievement with tanks in World War II, only eventually to suffer what Napoleon, Kruger, the Kaiser, and Hitler could not do--be wiped out by government cuts in the 1960s. Ken Tout, who proudly served with the regiment during the Normandy landings, pays tribute to a much-loved part of the British Army.

Rome thrived on war and iron was vital to the Roman military establishment as well as to the civil population. The Roman Iron Industry in Britain stretches far beyond dry theory and metallurgy alone;

Blitz, bombs and Plymouth men's battles on Omaha Beach! Beginning with the discovery of the bones of cave men and rushing through French attacks, outbreaks of leprosy and the plague, Civil War sieges and deadly Spanish ships, disasters, demolitions and the enormous death tolls of the Plymouth Blitz, it will change the way you see the city forever!

At the other end of the county, in Manningtree, the ruthless Matthew Hopkins scoured the area in search of `witches' - putting to death anyone who had as much as a wart on the end of their nose. Even royalty - including Richard II and Henry VIII - have carried out dastardly deeds within the county's borders, from murder to adultery.

Cheshire is a county that associates with the giants of English literature, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wierdstone of Brisingamen, but how did these fabulous tales develop from a supposedly flat county of boggy, cheese-making plains?

The British trawling industry is largely a bygone age and people are beginning to forget the adventures, hardships and joys that characterised this most dangerous of professions. This book seeks to keep the memories of a once great industry alive.

Compiled by two highly respected authors and museum curators, this richly illustrated book features 100 objects - ranging from a Viking Thor's Hammer and Lord Nelson's funeral drape, to the whistle used during the Christmas truce of 1914.

With the country's oldest university and the ruins of both a magnificent castle and one of the grandest cathedrals of medieval Europe, St Andrews is one of the most beautiful and historic places in Scotland.

Glasgow has one of the bloodiest and most tumultuous histories on record, riddled with plagues and pirate attacks, religious divides and reconciliations, bombs, executions, fires and floods.

Shaft sinking for the extraction of minerals has taken place for centuries, and for much of this time, coal mining was carried out in the North East of England.

This is NOT a guide book.This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of Manchester. Learn more about the movers and shakers who shaped this fantastic city.BEST places - Worst Places.Local lingo, architecture, green spaces, events, traditions, fact, fiction.Written by a local who knows what makes MANCHESTER tick.

Witches, martyrs, bodysnatchers, Zulus and rioting peasants! From the skeletons lying underneath the city - which include a woolly mammoth - to the executions of thieves, witches, martyrs and murderers at Chelmsford's gaol, this book will change the way you see the town forever. infamous murderers Samuel Dougal and Thomas Drory died here.

From hair-raising first-hand accounts of unexplained sightings and paranormal phenomena to the search for evidence of ghosts, this eerie and richly illustrated tour around the historic town of Spalding and the surrounding area features many chilling stories of ghostly encounters.

Take a photographic journey into Liverpool's often overlooked local, craft and advertising history. This intriguing book profiles hand-painted advertising from across the city and investigates the companies that commissioned the signs that now appear faded on the brickwork of buildings.

The Battle of Flodden in 1513 was the largest battle ever to take place between England and Scotland. Expert knowledge and detailed maps look at the key events, the 1135 campaign and the minor battles of Millfield and Norham, and a full profile of the respective forces and deployments, and convey the battle's course concisely and clearly.

Chatham is a town steeped in history and strange folklore, but much of its ghostly past, and present, remains unwritten. The book features an array of haunted houses and shops, and sheds new light on classic local legends at locations like Chatham Dockyard and Fort Amherst.

The bustling city of Hull has a long and distinguished history, but the area also harbours some disturbing secrets. From poltergeists and phantoms to the mysterious stories of the floating vicar, Little Emily and Old Mother Riley, this book includes many pulse-raising narratives that are guaranteed to make you blood run cold.