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  • Reporting the Great War

    by Stuart Hylton ...
    Series series The Great War on the Home Front
    The Great War of 1914–1918 was the world's first total conflict. It drew the whole population into the war effort as never before. The armed forces recruited on a scale that was previously unimaginable, and the munitions industries drew more and more citizens into the labour market. The entire national economy was thrown onto a war footing. The local newspapers of those years provide a unique ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What the Railways Did For Us

    The Making of Modern Britain

    by Stuart Hylton ...
    It is hard, from a distance of nearly two centuries, to imagine the impact the coming of the railways must have had at the start of the nineteenth century. Their physical impact was dramatic enough – great mechanical horses, breathing fire and smoke and drawing impossibly heavy trains at unimaginable speeds, across a landscape transformed by the embankments and cuttings, viaducts and tunnels their ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Kent and Sussex 1940

    Britain's Front Line

    by Stuart Hylton ...
    Series series Battlefield Britain
    In June 1940, Britain's front line against the German armies was the coast of Kent and Sussex. Across the Channel, Hitler's forces gathered, preparing for invasion, as the Home Forces struggled desperately to recover from the disaster and miracle of Dunkirk. Occupation of these islands was nearer than for almost nine hundred years. Kent and Sussex 1940, tells the story of the communities that ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading 1800 to the Present Day

    The Making of Modern Reading

    by Stuart Hylton ...
    Reading has been transformed in the last century or so. It has gone from being a Victorian manufacturing town to a major centre for service industries and cutting-edge technology. It was, and still is, an important railway town, but both its appearance and its operation have been dramatically changed by the motorcar and the aeroplane. Most of the High Street names that would have been familiar to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Reading in 50 Buildings

    by Stuart Hylton ...
    Series series In 50 Buildings
    From Victorian manufacturing town, famous for the ‘three Bs’ – beer, bulbs and biscuits – to its current status as a major centre for service industries and cutting-edge technology, Reading has a proud and distinctive identity. This extraordinary history is embodied in the buildings that have shaped the town. Reading in 50 Buildings explores the history of this rich and vibrant community through a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Surviving the Home Front

    The People and the Media in the Second World War

    by Stuart Hylton ...
    Terrifying raids, thousands of bombs and countless petrified inhabitants of Britain's busiest cities. These are the prevailing images of the Blitz and the Home Front in the Second World War. However, for the people who experienced it, it was so much more and affected every aspect of their existence.Surviving the Home Front explores through contemporary newspaper reports and advertisements the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Early Pioneers of Steam

    The Inspiration Behind George Stephenson

    by Stuart Hylton ...
    We think of the Stephensons and Brunel as the fathers of the railways, and their Liverpool and Manchester and Great Western Railways as the prototypes of the modern systems. But who were the railways' grandfathers and great-grandfathers? The rapid evolution of the railways after 1830 depended on the juggernauts of steam locomotion being able to draw upon centuries of experience in using and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Steam Engines and Steam Railways

    A Young Person's Guide

    by Stuart Hylton ...
    Steam engines and steam railways have a long, fascinating history, with many exciting areas to explore. Whether you are visiting a steam railway, or simply want to know more about how steam railways helped to develop the modern world, this is the book for you. When was the steam engine first invented? How do steam engines work? Which were the most famous engines, and railway lines? How does a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A-Z of Reading

    Places-People-History

    by Stuart Hylton ...
    Series series A-Z
    Reading has a rich history going back well over a thousand years. It has seen kings and queens making extended stays in the town (a king of England is even buried there), meetings of Parliament, and pitched battles fought for the control of the nation in its streets. In its time it has been a nationally important centre of religious pilgrimage, a key part of every new mode of transport – from ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Little Book of Manchester

    by Stuart Hylton ...
    Series series Little Book of
    Did you know?In 1824 a Pendleton tollkeeper set up Britain's first true public bus service, thought to be one of the first in the world.Communism can claim to have been conceived, if not born, in Manchester as Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx used to meet in the city.Manchester has the grim distinction of being the place where the first death of the English Civil War occurred.The Little Book of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Little Book of Berkshire

    by Stuart Hylton ...
    Series series Little Book of
    Did you know?Reading Football Club was founded in 1871, the same year as the FA Cup, and is the oldest football league club south of the River TrentNewbury Racecourse housed a prisoner-of-war camp during the First World WarThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's current coat of arms features three acorn sprigs – one for each of the Middleton children, who were born in BerkshireThe Little Book of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The British Seaside

    An Illustrated History

    by Stuart Hylton ...
    For more than two hundred years, the British public has had a special relationship with the seaside. It has offered a miracle cure for all sorts of ailments, a place for an ever-increasing part of the population to take its leisure, and a battleground for differing ideas about what was proper in terms of dress and behaviour. In wartime it became a battleground in a much more real sense, as the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD