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Britain hides a remarkable native artistic tradition - mysterious rock carvings which date back far into the misty age of stone circles. In some parts of Scotland you can dig...
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The Holy Grail, the kingdom of Camelot, The Knights of the Round Table and the magical sword Excalibur are all key ingredients of the legends surrounding King Arthur. But who was...
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A richly illustrated guide to the monarchs of the British Isles and Ireland from pre-Saxon times to the present.
Includes details on each monarch's birth, parents, accession...
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For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was...
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Discover the darker side of Antrim with this collections of spine chilling tales from across the county. This spooky selection of stories includes the phantom coach of Dundermot...
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"Ireland: A Very Peculiar History" is a lively and informative account of the history of the whole island of Ireland, from its earliest inhabitants to the present day. It celebrates...
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The Little Book of Armagh is a compendium of fascinating,
obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County
Armagh.
Here you will find out about Armagh’s myth and legend...
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The Little Book of Wales is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and history in Wales. Here we find out about the country’s most unusual crimes...
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Northern Ireland is an area of stunning natural beauty. But its true treasure is the historic hand of man. From quiet dolmen stones nestled in the countryside and standing stones...
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Since the nineteenth century the beautiful coast of Co. Antrim has been an attraction to tourists and photographers alike and this collection of fifty period photographs tells...
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In the 19th and 20th centuries this market town in the centre of County Down developed a thriving tourist trade around the attraction of the local spa wells. Our illustrated history...
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If you want to know who the linen lappers of Edenderry were, see the inside front cover; if you want to know why Banbridge got the world's first flyover, see page 4; if you want...
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Bangor, Co. Down, was always Northern Ireland's favourite holiday destination and in this history of the town its heyday as a resort, the years from 1900 to the Second World War...
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These villages are now quiet places with little or no industry. In the early twentieth century, however, they were major producers of linen and these fifty-two photographs document...
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Informative but wistful look at Irish country life as it used to be around 100 years ago, with a few more recent photos included. Although many are not located, probably most were...
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This illustrated history has about 60 photos of these County Armagh settlements, the biggest of which is Lurgan which had its origins in the 1610 Plantation of Ulster. From small...
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Old Newcastle is a delightful pictorial history of one of the most popular and beautiful seaside resorts in Northern Ireland. The images within this title date from between 1900...
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Occupying a key position at the head of Strangford Lough, Newtownards had a somewhat battlescarred early history. Viking raiders were responsible for the destruction of its first...
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Fifty-seven lively photographs of Portadown from the days when the town could still claim to be the centre of the railway network. Back then it was the 'Hub of the North', and...
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A comprehensive photographic record of this popular tourist area from the late 19th century to the mid twentieth century. Includes such landmarks as The Portrush Hydropathic and...
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Featuring fifty-three rare period photographs complimented by in-depth captions, this book records these Co. Down villages in the days when Rathfriland and Hilltown each had their...
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This collection of fifty-two photographs from the early 1900s gives an insight into the lives local people led at that time in this scattering of Co. Armagh villages. The book...
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The Knights Templar was the foremost Military Order of the Crusades. In about 1118 these warrior-monks were appointed custodians of Temple Mount, and defenders of Christian pilgrims...
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Encompassing stories of some of Ireland's best known characters as well as key moments in Ireland's past, this pocket history recalls the country;s struggles through dark times...
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On August 1, 1914, on the eve of World War I, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his hand-picked crew embarked in HMS Endurance from London's West India Dock, for an expedition to the Antarctic...
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Since its first publication in 1994 Richard Killeen’s Short History of Ireland has been widely accepted as the most accessible introduction to Irish history. It presents the...
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One of the most secretive, but also best known, military orders of the crusading era, the Knights Templar were extremely wealthy and powerful. Their history has left a comet's...
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An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval world. Yet two centuries later...
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For 300 years, from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, the power of the Vikings dominated Western Europe. Their voyaging extended westwards to America and as far south as the...
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