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2010/2011 – NEW
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A Farmer’s Boy Goes To War
Arthur John Callwood
The only son of a North Warwickshire farming family, Arthur Callwood was born just after the end of World War I. He was intended to follow the family tradition of farming on the estate where George Eliot had once lived. At the outbreak of World War II,
however, he was called up for active service...
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Edwardian Teddington – The Journal of Nellie Stocker
Ken Howe
Reading Edwardian Teddington is like peeping through a
keyhole into the beginning of the last century. It tells the story
of a young girl from a working class family observing life all
around her as she goes about her daily duties...
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To Hell and Back – A True Tale of heroism in World War One
Neville Barley
Shortly after the onset of the Great War Wilfrid Barley, aged 19
years, like many other young men, volunteered to ‘do his bit’
as a Private in the Worcestershire Regiment. Many
years after his death a diary was
discovered documenting his
experiences as an ordinary ‘Tommy’...
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Planet BB – The Boys’ Brigade Around The World
Ed. David Chant
The Boys’ Brigade has just celebrated its 125th Anniversary. In 1883, Sir
William Alexander Smith founded the first uniformed youth organisation
in Glasgow. He would soon see his Church based movement spread to all
corners of the world. This book features histories, stories, and interviews from the UK, the
Caribbean, Asia, Australia, Africa, and the United States of America...
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A Pocketful of Acorns
John Moore (Ed. Phillip Robbins)
For nearly forty years up to his death in 1967, John Moore
regularly wrote articles and short stories for newspapers and
magazines in addition to his output of books. Like his books
these articles had a rural flavour and many appeared weekly as his
Country Column in the Birmingham Evening Mail. Some in part
subsequently found their way into some of his country books, but
generally most have lain for many years, unread in the archives...
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The Heydays Of Selly Oak Park –
1896–1911
Ken Pugh
Join a great grandson of the first Park Keeper at Selly Oak Park,
Birmingham, as he delves into the Park’s history. Discover why,
when, and how the Park came to be. Re-live the days, a hundred years
ago, when thousands thronged to the Park to relax, play and be entertained.
The colour and excitement of the recreational events and activities are
remarkable, and the images linger long...
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Coaching and the Wheatsheaf Inn
Sue Brown
Birmingham born librarian Sue Brown looks at a timber
framed building in Bewdley, Worcestershire, and traces
something of its fascinating history as a coaching inn.
Known as the Wheatsheaf between about 1754 and 1875, it was
established as one of two principal inns in the town by 1788...
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Poetic
Journal of a Cameron Highlander
Poems written by a soldier during the 2nd World War
Jack Gillespie
Jack Gillespie was born in 1909 and celebrated his 100th
birthday on 4th August 2009. In his youth he enjoyed sports
and keenly participated in cricket, athletics and particularly
boxing. Belonging to a Scottish family in Liverpool, Jack,
not unexpectedly, joined the Liverpool Scottish Regiment
(10th Bn. King’s Regiment)...
* As featured in The
Daily Telegraph and The
Scotsman *
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Czech
and Mate
Margaret Austin and Fred Austin
He saw her for the first time in the queue for the Dean.
The year was 1947. She had just arrived in Leicester to
begin her English course at the University College (as
it then was), while he was making a fresh start after
the financial problems of the year before. He liked what
he saw and said to his new friends, “Have you seen
that zipped dress?” She saw him too and thought,
“You look as though you’re used to getting your
own way, but you’re not going to get me!”...
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Coronation
Village
North Muskham in the 1950s
Trevor Frecknall
Take a door-to-door stroll through a typical Middle England
village during the countryside’s golden decade –
and discover the harsh realities and tender thoughts,
not to mention the social and sports clubs, that made
communities so strong in the days when rural poverty was
taken for granted...
* As featured in This
is nottingham.co.uk *
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The
Grass was always Greener
Angela Claysmith Jenkins
In this candid account Angela Claysmith Jenkins takes
us through another twenty years in the saga of her extended
family. Through births and deaths, another nine house
moves and twenty five more jobs, The Grass was always
Greener describes the challenge of motherhood, Angela’s
involvement in the Women’s Movement and dropping
out in Cornwall...
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