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Women’s Lives
Researching Women’s Social History 1800-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Women’s lives have traditionally gone unrecorded in history. But housewives, factory girls and servants all had their own distinctive voices, and, if you know where to look, there are plenty of sources to explore.
Jennifer Newby’s guide to women's social history between 1800 and 1939 includes...
Homefront Yorkshire
1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
No event in history had such a profound and long-term effect as World War Two, it's consequences still helping to shape the modern world. With our trade routes harassed by U-boats, our skies darkened by the Luftwaffe and our beaches imperilled by the threat of invasion, the period from 1939 to 1945...
Ashley Jackson: The Yorkshire Artist
A Lifetime of Inspiration Captured in Watercolour
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Ashley Jackson – The Yorkshire Artist' contains a collection of paintings that have been personally chosen by the artist to bring together his personal memories and intimate reflections of the emotions and atmosphere that he has captured in each watercolour painting. As he explains, 'All artists...
Through the Barrier
Flying Fast Jets in the RAF and USAF
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Clive Evans had a lengthy front-line flying career in which he flew Hunters, Canberras and Lightnings. Apart from his personnel experiences he describes all these types in considerable detail, explaining technical details and the nuances of each type. The final fast jet he flew was during a three...
Narrow Gauge Railway Stamps
A Collector's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This, the first of four books, looks at the treatment of varying aspects of public transport with the aid of postage stamps, either issued by the postal authorities of most of the worlds nations, or some of the railway companies themselves, especially heritage operators.
It has long intrigued...
by Graham Simons
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland was one of the world’s true pioneers of powered flight, a man as important to Britain in aviation terms as the Wright brothers were to America. From humble beginnings, he went on to develop some of the finest aircraft to see action during the First World War, before...
Back Bearings
A Navigator’s Tale
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Eric Cropper’s RAF career started in 1943 and ended in 1968. It covered a period when the navigation of aircraft changed from astro, dead reckoning and drift bearings all plotted by pencil on charts, to press-button radio and satellite information that can instantly pinpoint a position anywhere...
by Graham Simons
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This new volume from the respected and well-regarded aviation historian and author Graham Simons is sure to appeal to all aviation enthusiasts, including as it does a wide array of historical sources and archival information drawn together into one consolidated volume – the closest to a definitive...
History of British European Airways
1946 - 1972
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
BEA was formed in 1946 and took over most UK domestic and European routes under the British government's nationalisation policy. It began operations with a fleet of outdated and hopelessly uneconomic passenger aircraft that were derivatives of wartime types such as the DC-3, Avro Viking and Rapide....
Flying from My Mind
Innovative and Record-breaking Microlight and Aircraft Designs
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
This fascinating story begins in 1973 when David Cook built a glider in an attempt to win the Selsey Birdman Rally – an annual event where all types of creations are launched from the end of Bognor Pier. Between 1975 and 1977 he won every National and International hang gliding competition entered...
Fabulous Flying Boats
A History of the World's Passenger Flying Boats
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
The history of the development and operations of flying boats in the early twentieth century is a vibrant one, full of colourful characters and experimentation. In 'Fabulous Flying Boats', Leslie Dawson captures this spirit of dynamism, reminding us of the most successful early pioneers of the seaplanes...
The Sterling Years
Small Arms and the Men
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
This is the story of the manufacture, development and usage of one of the most famous submachine Guns ever produced by a British Firm Designed at the end of WW2 it saw limited use on a trial basis, carried by paratroopers during the battle of Arnhem, but since the British Forces had plenty of Sten...
Boeing 707 Group
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The Boeing 707 family - that includes the forerunner Model 367-80, the KC-135 series of military transports and the slightly smaller Model 720 - was the pioneer of the sweptback wing, incorporating podded engines borrowed from the B-47 military bomber. It was the aircraft that many regard as the design...
Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century census returns and school registers, will be familiar to researchers,...