Olive: Princess of Cumberland (1772-1834)
Miles Macnair

This is the gripping story of a truly remarkable woman who claimed in her later life to be a legitimate niece of King George III, by his brother Henry Duke of Cumberland. It is a tale of seduction and corruption, of artists and courtiers, State secrets and court-cases...

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A History of The Holbeche Family of Warwickshire
and the Holbech Family of Farnborough
Laurence Ince

This volume is an account of the Holbeche (Holbech) family of Warwickshire. It begins with the family’s origins in medieval times at Holbeach in Lincolnshire where they were knights and landowners. The reasons for the relocation of the family in late medieval times to Warwickshire are explored in detail...

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Birmingham: 1900 to 1970
Alton Douglas

Cuts, cuts and more cuts! Well, that may be the way of the world at the moment – but NOT in this book. In our determination to give added value we’ve crammed over 400 items into its pages – and what a proud collection it is! As you go through the years you’ll be struck by how much trouble was taken over advertising a hundred years ago...

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The Rise and Fall of the Police Box
John Bunker

The ‘Tardis’ of the Doctor Who BBC television series is all that most know about the police box. These boxes have a far more interesting history, which was virtually unknown today before the publication of this book. The 1880s saw companies in America develop, from earlier fire alarms, police call points and kiosks before they pursued clients in Britain...

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The Childrens Homes Village
Jill Plumley

Life in care has changed over the years. Originally children came into care when their parents went into the workhouse. Later children orphaned during the wars and when parents died from illness or accident were housed in one of the 12 cottages on Shenley Fields Drive. Some children remember their stay at Shenley Fields Cottage Homes with good memories that have helped mould their lives...

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A Hundred Years in Tardebigge
Revd Alan White

In 1931 the book A Thousand Years in Tardebigge, written by Margaret Dickins, was published. Based on considerable research, it traced, in much detail, the history of the Parish of Tardebigge from the tenth up to and including the nineteenth century. This book has been written to continue the history with an account of events in the life of the parish in the twentieth century...

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Church and Community in South London
Richard Olney

In 1881 St Saviour’s was a new church, built to serve a new suburb. This book describes the ups and downs of life in the parish during its formative years. It shows how St Saviour’s reflected the character of its neighbourhood, and examines its role in the religious and cultural life of south London during a period of rapid social change...

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The Bridge
Donald McDonald

Rotton Park Reservoir, in Birmingham, is a pivotal place for those living in Ladywood and surrounding boroughs. The Bridge is a fictional account of individuals whose lives, predominantly encompassing one decade of the twentieth century, are recounted against events locally, nationally and internationally...

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Wet and Dry
Commander Geoffrey Greenish

“Wet and Dry” traces the life of Commander Geoffrey Greenish whose adventurous career spanned some forty-seven years. For many years, a seagoing Naval Officer, the author rose from cadet to Commander of a variety of ships...

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Maggie & Molly: A Virtuous Toil
Jean Debney

Based on true events, this is the story of two women sealed in a bond of friendship, with a shared belief that everyone deserved a right to a living wage. One born affluent, beautiful and charming, the other relatively poor, homely in countenance and driven. Together they changed a society by standing up and fighting for what they believed in...

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Unlocking the Gates
Shirley Thompson & Caroline Bourner

The tale that we are about to tell you is a Trans-Atlantic Fantasy, spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries. The following happenings seem so unlikely as to resemble a fairy story but they are based on historical events. To begin our story, we must transport you back to the late 19th Century, where the first of two twin brothers is about to be born...

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The Dangerfields: Munitions & Memories
Jean Debney

This book is the untold story of some of the remarkable heroines of WW2, the women who made the munitions and aircraft that were so desperately needed at our time of greatest vulnerability. One and a half million women, a great many from Birmingham, bravely and patriotically did their duty in dangerous and arduous conditions...

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The History of Sutton Coldfield Municipal Charities
Donald J. Field

The origin of Sutton Coldfield Municipal Charities was in a Royal Charter of 1528 that established the Warden and Society which controlled the town for over four centuries. Since the Charitable activities were separated from the Council to form the Municipal Charities they have grown enormously and the assets are now in the region of £40 million...

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A Sense of Occasion - Mendelssohn in Birmingham 1846 & 1847
Audrey Duggan

This is the story of a love affair between Mendelssohn and the citizens of Birmingham. Mendelssohn’s oratorio, “Elijah”, was first performed at the Birmingham Town Hall in 1846 and was an outstanding success, matched only by the attraction of the man, himself...

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All Life's A Game
Trevor Frecknall

The first time Brian Clough, football’s most volatile manager, met journalist Trevor Frecknall, he kicked him out of the Nottingham Forest ground. The last time the same journalist covered a Cup Final, Clough asked him to carry Forest’s newly-won trophy out of Wembley...

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