Books on Local History
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History of the Elementary School Contest in England; The Struggle for National Education by John Morley. Ed. Asa Briggs.
lxi 349p 184p green cloth fresh, nice fresh copy from a Cambridge college library
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Old Mesilla. Pictorial Notes of its Past and Present.
20p slim booklet, illustrated throughout, text reproduced from handwriting, includes map drawings, ...
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Nature's Places. Conservation Sites and Countryside Change.
xiv 209p paperback, laminated cover, from a Cambridge College library, label to spine and title ...
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Los Angeles Medley. Stories from my City.
121p paperback, black city hall design to front, excellent condition, very uncommon title
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Benches and Stalls in Suffolk Churches.
39p slim booklet, excellent condition, many plates, from a Cambridge college library
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Benches and Stalls in Suffolk Churches.
39p slim booklet, brown card cover, stapled binding, excellent condition, many plates, previously ...
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London Airport Rapid Transport. Report on Rapid Transport Facility, Paddington to London Airport. Confidential. July 1965.
oversized A3 size spiral bound oblong prospectus for a futuristic train connection to Heathrow ...
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Industrial Archaeology of East Anglia.
192p hardback with red dustjacket, very good copy from a Cambridge college library, never used
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Cleeve Hill. The History of the Common and its People.
174p blue paperback, very good condition, little used
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Sir John Parkington and National Education.
37p peach stapled pamphlet with card cover, from a Cambridge college library, pages clean with ...
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Gray's Elegy and the City of London. The Ale Conner's Version.
22 pages grey card cover, boars head to back, plates throughout, well preserved, uncommon item
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The Politics of Local Government in the United Kingdom.
143p yellow paperback with patterned laminated cover, as new, pages clean with references and ...
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Roman Cambridge. Excavations on Castle Hill, 1956 - 1988. (Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Volume 88 for 1999)
268p very large format paperback, taller than A4, light blue card cover, many illustrations ...
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Donald Gray: Headmaster, Bootham School, York 1927 - 1943.
90p blue cloth fresh, frontispiece, 9 halftone plates, very good
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Fieldwork Location Guides No. 1 Brighton and the Downs (The area of Sheet 198 of the OS 1:50 000 map series.
38p stapled paperback, pale yellow illustrated card cover very good, from a Cambridge college ...
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The Crisis of the Inner City.
169p small format hardback with white pictorial jacket, from a Cambridge college library, first ...
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Undermining the Japanese Miracle. Work and Conflict in a Coalmining Community.
290p hardback with red illustrated jacket, as new, pages clean with bibliography and index, ...
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The Quiet Revolution. Social Changes in a Sussex Village 1871 - 1971.
xii 239p hardback, index, bibliography, tables, a fresh and clean copy from a Cambridge library
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Presenting Scotland's Story.
96p white/maroon paperback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, as new
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Viaggio nel Passato. Immagini d'Epoca di Monte Argentario.
173p very large format hardback, taller than A4, laminated boards, illustrated throughout, also in ...
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Leek in 1861 Census of Population. A Sample Study.
52p stapled booklet, orange card cover illustrated with old black and white photographs, foxed to ...
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Images of Edwardian Leek.
112p very tall paperback, brown illustrated cover, bright and fresh copy
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L.A.'s Riots.
paperback with illustrated cover, author inscription, as new: fictionalised account of LA riots
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A Short History of Thaxted Church.
32p brown stapled booklet, some pages dog-eared, otherwise near fine condition
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Alt-Marburg. "Nimm mich in deine trauten Gassen / Du alte Stadt der Musen auf"
a folder with 10 colour plates mounted, designs by C Armbrust, well preserved, folder a little aged
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Early Man in Hallamshire.
xii 307p large format hardback, red cloth, frontispiece and many plates, illustrations, maps, nice ...
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Annual Report of the Church of England Schools of Cambridge 1960.
16p stapled booklet, pages appear clean and unmarked, an interesting glimpse into local history, ...
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London's Struggle for Socialism 1848 - 1948.
viii 56p paperback, figures in text, well preserved copy
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Alde Estuary. The Story of a Suffolk River.
vii 99p hardback, navy cloth with illustrated jacket, very good condition, binding firm, very ...
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Southwell. A History Walk.
15p oblong format stapled guide, purple illustrated cover, clean pages, name to title, a fresh ...
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Reden, gehalten am 50jährigen Stiftungsfest des Freiburger Pathologischen Institutes am 1. und 2. August 1933.
52p white card cover, presentations from international speakers, including poetry, ...
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Draining of the Fens: Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England.
xiii 398p hardcover, as new, first edition, excellent condition
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Haileybury 1908 - 1961.
xii 219p cloth with cream dustjacket, frontispiece, 20 other halftone plates, index, few faint ...
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Haileybury 1908 - 1961. The Story of Haileybury College from 1908 to 1942, and of Haileybury and Imperial Service College from 1942 to 1961.
xii 219p hardback, maroon cloth with beige jacket, good used copy, jacket tanned with some marks, ...
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Random Recollections of Haileybury.
90p hardback with peach dustjacket, a little dusty, illustrations in text, bowing slightly towards ...
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Fertility and Deprivation. A Study of Differential Fertility Amongst Working - Class Families in Aberdeen.
188p hardback with orange and white paper jacket, slight scuffing to edges and spine yellowed, ...
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Limestone Grasslands of the North York Moors.
this is a A4 format paperback, mimeographed typescript, green card cover, title panel to front, ink ...
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The Royal Albert. The History of a Cambridge Almshouse set in its Times. 1846 to the present.
152p paperback, excellent copy, very well preserved
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Life and Tradition in Northumberland and Durham.
168p cloth with grey/black jacket, tight binding with many b/w illustrations, near fine condition
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A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect. Explanatory, Derivative and Critical.
liv 616p original cloth with half of cloth spine absent, list of subscribers in back, from a ...
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Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Vol 47 for 1925.
410p 22p original paper cover fragile, thick original volume, many plates, nice copy
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Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Vol 51 for 1929.
410p 22p original paper cover fragile, thick original volume, many plates, nice copy with ink note ...
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Pleshey the Village and Retreat House.
55p blue stapled booklet, well illustrated and informative, very few signs of wear, just one tea ...
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Industrial Archaeology in Gloucestershire.
32p stapled booklet, illustrated, maps, bibliography, a fresh and clean copy
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The Supply of Manufactured Goods and Agricultural Development: The Case of Ghana, The Case of Rwanda, The Case of Tanzania.
192p white paperback with card cover, some use, front edge bumped but pages clean with charts, very ...
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The Annalls of Ipswiche. The Laws Customes and Government of the Same Collected Out of the Records Bookes and Writings of That Town.
vii 561p, iii large format, folio size, original water "silk" cloth, hinges opening and yielding, ...
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A Countryman's Calendar: The Years of Pilgrimage.
128p hardback, dustjacket, illustrated by the author, set of nature articles some reprinted from ...
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Edwardian Rye from Contemporary Photographs.
55p white stapled booklet, many b/w photographs, very good condition
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