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It's entirely about Fish and Chips. In the course of which it's also about the Bar-Kokhba revolt of 136AD, the potato-related causes of the French Revolution, a Durham coal-owner's predilection for Hannahs, the British Camel Corps, the Grímsvötn Volcano, George Washington, the fighting Belgian of Dundee and the execution of Queen Elizabeth's doctor. You will not be bored.

Millstone Grit is Glyn Hughes' masterful work exploring the landscapes and culture of the West Riding and East Lancashire, following the course of a 50 mile walk.

There's a set of books which you're just supposed to know about, at least if you live in The West and fancy the idea of being thought 'educated'. There's the Bible, Shakespeare, James Joyce, Walter Scott and Machiavelli. Dr Jekyll, Tiny Tim, Starbuck, Socrates, Mr. Scrooge, Raskolnikov, Einstein and Enkidu. The Brontes and Boswell, Wordsworth, Newton Confucius and Don Quixote.Here they all are. 100 of the most quoted, most known, works of all ...

Europe eh? Curved bananas made illegal!11 inch pizzas banned!Acres outlawed!Ambulances turn yellow for Europe!Army's gun salute banned as too noisy!Bagpipes to be made illegal!Brandy Butter Banned!British lav to be replaced with Euro-loo! British rhubarb to be straight! Brussels threatens walnuts! Carved horns to be banned! Chocolate to be 'vegelate'!... these important observations on Euro-interference all appeared in British newspapers as 'n...

Winner of a Welsh Arts Council competition and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Very moving poems...a knowing of people that I think is rare - Robert Bly. Excellent...the real article - Seamus Heaney.

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English food as it once was. The foods we've lost and forgot, with more than one thousand original receipts to make them

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A biography of the Welsh poet Islwyn, one of the greatest poets of the 15th century. This volume presents a study of his life, as well as looking at the impact the death of his lover, Ann Bowen, had on the writer, which inspired him to write possibly his most famous poem, "Y Storm".

Equips teachers with the language skills needed for accurate, authentic, and idiomatic classroom management in English. It is aimed at upper-primary or secondary levels, but much of the material will be appropriate in further and even higher education.

A practical handbook for trainee teachers who want to acquire accurate, authentic, and idiomatic classroom language, and for experienced teachers who want to extend the range of their classroom English.

45 Classics of Philosophy, in their own words, abridged into readable little epitomes. Including: The Ancient Greeks, Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Aristotle, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, St Augustine, Severinus Boethius, Thomas More, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Gottfried Leibniz, George Berkeley, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, I...

Food historian Glyn Hughes rediscovers the Old English Christmas, and the Older English Yule. Here are Kings and Puritans, Yule Babies, Christmas Pottage, Queen Victoria's mincemeat recipe, Christmas Cheese and Salmagundi. Here is Durham Fluffin, Pepper Cake, the shape for mince pies and nearly one hundred actual, original, dishes gleaned from from half-a-thousand years of English cookery books. Here you can rediscover the Spirit of Christmas ...