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Wicklow is full of stories, from the farmer returned from market to find he was dead and buried, to the mysterious bird who turned into a beautiful wife long missing from the glens. In this rich collection of tales from the county, you may find the cure for baldness, or learn if it is wise to leave a sleeping army lie in Rathdrum.

A pictorial history of the mountains of Ireland

To scale the skies

Haunted Ashford

A photographic history of mining in South Wales

Kent folk tales

The captivating anecdotes within, both poignant and entertaining, are immersed in the sights, sounds and smells of the East End in the post-war era.

These Wiltshire folk tales have all stood the test of time, and remain classic texts that will be enjoyed time and again by modern readers.

Using archaeological and historical evidence, the authors chart the rise and fall of the iron, clay and coal industries of Ironbridge and bring to life the communities that worked in them.

Sheffield crimes

The tribe of the Durotriges was listed by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the second century AD. Here, for the first time, the evidence for the Durotriges is made accessible to both archaeologists and those who simply have an interest in the British Iron Age, the Romans or the history of this area.

Challenges the traditional histories of British and Irish migration, the stories of oppression and exile that form an essential part of the existing literature.

A history of Shropshire place names

A century of Belfast

many others, such as the fact that Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, stole a piece of New College's unicorn horn, that one of the Fellows of Christ Church was a bear or that Oxford Castle has England's most frequently sighted ghost, are much less widely known - and some of these stories have not appeared in print for hundreds of years.

From his cage in a putrid, overcrowded Indian gaol, Paul Jordan reflects on a life lived on the edge and curses the miscalculation that robbed him of his freedom.

Following the Armada, there was the bloodless invasion of 1688, Bonnie Prince Charlie's march south, the remarkable American John Paul Jones' attack on Whitehaven during the American War of Independence, the German occupation of the Channel Islands and - the great what if of British, perhaps world history - the threat of Operation Sealion.

Discover the shadier side of Warwick's history with this collection of true-life crimes from the town's past. Cases featured here includes a daring robbery at a country house in 1846, the brutal murder of a woman in 1819, and the drowning of a wife by her husband in 1870.

This history book tells the story of RMS Queen Elizabeth, the ship which, along with her running mate Queen Mary, successfully worked Cunard's transatlantic service for much of the twentieth century.

A history of Wigan

A history of Clifton

A Salisbury miscellany

WINNER OF THE BRITISH SPORT BOOK AWARDS - RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR This is the story of 15 men killed in the Great War. The Final Whistle plays tribute to the pivotal role rugby played in the Great War by following the poignant stories of fifteen men who played for Rosslyn Park, London.

Discovered in 1811, Bignor is one of the richest and most impressive villas in Britain, its mosaics ranking among the finest in north-western Europe. Now, after 200 years, the remarkable story of Bignor Roman Villa is told in full in this beautifully illustrated book.

A history of prehistoric Dorset

William Heath Robinson remains one of Britain's best-loved illustrators and has embedded himself into English vernacular, inspiring the phrase `it's all a bit Heath Robinson' to describe any precarious or unnecessarily complex contraption.

Paranormal Perthshire

Oxford student pranks

This book gives a fascinating insight into the dramatic changes that have taken place in Rotherham over the past 100 years.

A three-division National League stretched from to provided yet another international dimension.