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The heart of every working farm and ranch, the barn is an icon of rural America. This book chronicles - and celebrates - all the main types, and looks at how these treasures of early American architecture developed. It explains how a wealth of immigrant construction methods and range of environments and climates resulted in a fascinating variety of barn styles in the United States, from the earliest rare Dutch examples to simpler English types...

Takes readers on an elegant journey back in time, examining the evolution of the American wedding dress and its impact on Britsh fashion.

Written by a London Blue Badge Guide who works for the Museum of London.

Though beer is one of the oldest beverages around, beer can collecting--particularly in the United States--really picked up steam in the 1930s when beer in cans first appeared. Since then, beer can collecting and breweriana has become vastly popular, with a variety of clubs and associations springing up across the country and around the world. Brewery collectibles became especially popular in the 1970s, and today breweriana remains a popular p...

Filled with fascinating extracts from Victorian railway publications and colourful period illustrations, this 2018 edition is the perfect desk companion for any railway enthusiast.

Archaeology's ancient farmer' provides a distillation of twenty years experimental work in growing, harvesting and storing crops, in breeding and raising stock - the full cycle of the farming year. Good pictures.

Over the last century Britain has witnessed a royal family saga compelling, tumultuous and heartwarming. With full-page illustrations from the Daily Mirror's archives and illuminating explanatory text, this book looks at one hundred years of royalty in Britain.

Focusing on the British bungalow up to the Second World War, this book explores its social, cultural and architectural development, revealing what the very earliest versions looked like and why at the peak of their popularity bungalows were so ubiquitous.

A history of these popular post-war homes and their gardens, showcasing various designs and telling the stories and memories of residents.

Scotland today has more than 100 distilleries ranging from vast factories to artisanal workshops, and more than half of them welcome tourists.Scotch whisky is the world's favourite spirit, with established European and North American sales being swelled by fast-growing markets in China, India, and Brazil. Once again new distilleries are being built in Scotland, and older ones that had been "mothballed" are being brought out of retirement. Scot...

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Churches contain much of the most interesting medieval sculpture in Britain. Magnificent effigies, whether of cast copper-alloy or stone, never cease to provoke awe and wonder, conjuring up glamorous images of an age of chivalry. Among the many joys of visiting churches is the experience of discovering sculptural treasures, monuments open doors to the past and introduce us to the characters from our history books that inhabited that lost world...

This book outlines the development and important events in the history of 500cc motor racing, and it is hoped that it will stimulate or revive interest in an important era in motor-racing evolution.

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A ride on a thrill rollercoaster is the highlight of any visit to an amusement or theme park. Today's rides are at the cutting edge of technology and engineering, but they are but the latest of a long line of rides with humble roots in Russian ice slides and wooden sleigh rides. Seaside historian Martin Easdown describes the great age of these fascinating structures, from the first mass produced rollercoaster, the Switchback Railway, through t...

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