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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
English social history	George Macaulay Trevelyan	This is volume 3 of 4 volumes. I actually loathe Trevelyan but even so he does come in useful (not to say indispensible) at times	OL10439947W
The Brideshead Generation	Humphrey Carpenter	Biographical and literary study. Oxford in the 1920s and Waugh's life afterwards.	OL12072301W
The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent	Washington Irving	The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon is the compilation of 34 short stories and essays by Washington Irving. It includes some of his most famous stories, such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van…	OL13096162W
I Never Knew That About the English	Christopher Winn	This wonderful book takes an affectionate, entertaining and perceptive look at the English people. Here are their traditions, foibles, quirks, customs, humour and achievements, triumphs and failures,…	OL15177579W
Lyme Regis camera	John Fowles	A collection of photographs of the seaside town where the author set his novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and where he has lived since 1965. Deeply involved in the history of the locale, he char…	OL15724026W
Hermits and recluses in English society, 950-1200	Tom Licence	In the central Middle Ages, English society lavished unprecedented attention on a category of would-be outcasts who repudiated its ambitions and spurned its aspirations. Hermits and recluses (collect…	OL16178461W
Lemon sherbet and dolly blue	Lynn Knight	"150 Station Road, Wheeldon Mill, a short stride across the Chesterfield Canal in the heart of Derbyshire, was home to the Nash family and their corner shop, which served a small mining community wit…	OL16584442W
The transformations of magic	Frank F. Klaassen	"Explores two principal genres of illicit learned magic in late Medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic, which could not"--Pr…	OL16726759W
Akenfield	Ronald Blythe	From amazon.uk: "This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking day…	OL1723560W
A Grim Almanac Of Lancashire	J. Nadin	192 p. : 25 cm	OL17494003W
Just the Job Lad	Mike Pannett	When a drug dealer targets the towns and villages of Ryedale, Mike launches an investigation that will uncover nationwide connections. News of a proposed ban on hunting with dogs raises hackles among…	OL17532500W
Our Tempestuous Day	Carolly Erickson	From Publishers Weekly In this chronicle of Regency England (18101820), popular historian Erickson shows that her considerable skills aren't limited to the depiction of Tudor monarchs (Bloody Ma…	OL1866603W
Shakespeare's festive comedy	C. L. Barber	In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C.L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilli…	OL19662780W
A house unlocked	Penelope Lively	Penelope Lively has turned her considerable literary talent to non-fiction with A House Unlocked, a marvellous, meandering collection of memories inspired by Golsoncott, the Somerset country home occ…	OL1983006W
Purists and Peripherals	Todd Dedman	233 pages ; 23 cm	OL20218090W
The life of a Scilly sergeant	Colin Taylor	Meet Sergeant Colin Taylor. For the past five years Clive has kept the streets of Scilly free from anchor thieves, goldfish abductors, and other culprits, some drunken, intent on breaking the law. Th…	OL20822701W
Thrumpton Hall	Miranda Seymour	Dear Thrumpton, how I miss you tonight, wrote twenty-one-year-old George Seymour in 1944. But the object of his affection was not a young woman but a house—ownership of which was then a distant dream…	OL24264W
The only way was Essex	Spike Mays	"In a remote corner of rural Essex, when ploughs were drawn by heavy horses and children walked shoeless to school, young Spike Mays lived with his family in a two-up, two-down cottage, where there w…	OL24289987W
The Conscientious Objector’s Wife	Kate Macdonald	The Conscientious Objector’s Wife, edited by Kate Macdonald, is the letters of Frank and Lucy Sunderland, written during the First World War. They were English pacifists and fervent supporters of Lab…	OL24676251W
By the waters of Liverpool	Helen Forrester	But it is a story with a happy ending. In the third volume of her autobiography, 'By the Waters of Liverpool', Helen Forrester, still poor, ill-fed and shy, but now at least washed and neatly dressed…	OL4062503W