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Northumberland Poll book of 1826
Register which includes names, locations and property of voters... More Info
Product Code: GRD418
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The Cresswells of Winchmore Hill - A Gifted Victorian Family
A 271 page paperback by Peter Hodge containing 60 illustrations. Published in 1999. In this book we meet descendants of an ancient Northumberland family, some of whom lived in the Middlesex village of Winchmore Hill during the reign of Queen Victoria. The Winchmore Hill Cresswells, and their relatives in London, Kent and Devonshire, were talented, versatile and distinctive folk. Peter Hodge has tr...More Info
Minchenden School War Memorial
A 52 page A4 illustrated book by Eileen Bostle published in 2024. The Minchenden School war memorial board, which is now in the Museum of Enfield collection, was made of oak from a tree in the school grounds by pupils under the supervision of their woodwork teacher and unveiled at a Memorial and Dedication service led by the vicar of Christ Church Southgate on Sunday 2 November 1947. It shows the...More Info
Archaic Tracks Around Cambridge
Archaic Tracks Round Cambridge was published in 1932, and was the last book by Alfred Watkins, who died in 1935. Watkins is still well known today as the original writer about ‘ley lines’ through his influential topographical study, The Old Straight Track, and his other works including The Ley Hunter’s Manual. This is the first new edition of his Cambridge book, exploring topographical align...More Info
The Ley Hunter's Manual: A Guide to Early Tracks
The Ley Hunter’s Manual was written by Alfred Watkins, a Herefordshire-based antiquarian, businessman and photography pioneer, and first published in 1927 as a follow-up to his hugely successful book The Old Straight Track (also available from Heritage Hunter). Although later adopted by the New Age movement to mean lines of ‘earth energies’, Watkins’ original vision of ‘leys’ was simpl...More Info
Thomas Cromwell: A Historical Sourcebook
The perfect companion to Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light, and the biographies of Thomas Cromwell by Diarmaid MacCulloch and Tracy Borman. Interest in the 16th century British statesman Thomas Cromwell, right-hand man to Henry VIII until he lost favour with the king, has never been greater than in the last decade, fuelled by award-winning ...More Info