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London's Sewers by Paul Dobraszczyk
$22.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Shire Library
London's sewers could be called the city's forgotten underground: mostly unseen subterranean spaces that are of absolutely vital importance, the capital's sewers nonetheless rarely get the same degree of attention as the Tube. Paul Dobraszczyk here outlines the fascinating history of London's sewers fro ...Show more
Making Craft Beer at Home by Gretchen Schmidhausler
$24.99 NZD
Category: Wine, Beer & Spirits | Series: Shire Library USA
Craft beer has in recent years seen an unprecedented surge in popularity across the United States and Canada. Tired of mass-produced beers, drinkers have gravitated toward handcrafted, small-batch and often local beers and many devotees have even begun to brew their own. This comprehensive book, written ...Show more
Matchbox Toys by Nick Jones
$0.00 NZD
Category: Antiques & Collectables | Series: Shire Library
Matchbox toys were ubiquitous items for children across the Western world. Originally labelled Christmas-cracker trash by retailers and shopkeepers, the small-scale 1-75 series soon began to see unprecedented worldwide sales in the 1950s. Smaller and cheaper than most of its competitors' toys, Matchbox ...Show more
Medical Services in the First World War by Dr Susan Cohen
$22.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Shire Library
The number of wounded in the First World War was unprecedented, and inadequate military planning presented the medical and voluntary community with huge and daunting challenges. Yet in the face of tremendous adversity both tackled their work with resourcefulness, courage and great humanity. This book is ...Show more
P & O by Ruth Artmonsky
$22.99 NZD
Category: Nautical | Series: Shire Library 701
From humble beginnings in the 1830s, The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company grew to dominate British mercantile shipping for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Initially the company's paddle steamers carried Her Majesty's Mail, as the name impliese, to the Iberian Peninsula, ...Show more
Scottish National Dress and Tartan by Stuart Reid
$22.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Shire Library
Tartan is an enormously popular pattern in modern fashion. Beginning as Highland dress, it was originally peculiar to certain areas of Scotland, but is now generally accepted as its national costume: what was once ordinary working clothing of a distinctive local style has been formalised into a ceremoni ...Show more
Smugglers and Smuggling: In Britain, 1700-1850 by Trevor May
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Shire Library
Smuggling was rife in Britain between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, and since then smugglers have come often to be romanticised as cheeky rogues - as highwaymen of the coasts and Robin Hood figures. The reality could be very different. Cut-throat businessmen determined to make a profit, ...Show more
The Battle of Britain by Neil R Storey
$22.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Shire Library 644
In the skies above south-east England in 1940, battle was waged between the men and machines of the Royal Air Force and Hitler's Luftwaffe. At stake was air superiority, and the Germans intended this to be a first step in the invasion of Britain. Squadrons of Hurricanes and Spitfires, then among the bes ...Show more
The Golden Age of Air Travel by Nina Hadaway
$22.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Shire Library
For much of the twentieth century travel by air was a luxury available only to the wealthy, and accordingly the airlines - Pan Am, BOAC, TWA, BEA and many others - offered premium services that connected far-flung parts of the world with con trails of glamour. This book looks back at the golden age, fro ...Show more
Vauxhall Cars by James Taylor
$22.99 NZD
Category: Automotive & Transport | Series: Shire Library
A beautifully illustrated history of the car manufacturer Vauxhall from its first model in 1903 through some of the most successful car models of the late twentieth century and up to the modern day. Vauxhall cars have been central to motoring in Britain for over a century. The company built a formidable ...Show more
Veteran Motor Cars by Steve Lanham
$19.99 NZD
Category: Automotive & Transport | Series: Shire Library
A concise illustrated history of the earliest cars in Britain up to 1905, and the people who manufactured and drove them. During the late Victorian/early Edwardian period, the development of the motor car represented the peak of technological experimentation. Termed "horseless carriages, these cars were ...Show more
Volkswagen Beetle by Richard Copping
$24.99 NZD
Category: Automotive & Transport | Series: Shire Library
Few cars have achieved the iconic status of Volkswagen's classic and much-loved Beetle - yet its origins are intertwined with the dark days of Nazism. This book looks at those origins, at the marque's initial post-war rescue by the British and the effect of early VW Director General Heinz Nordhoff's for ...Show more