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British Sports Cars of the 1950s and 60s by James Taylor
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Category: Planes Trains Automobiles | Series: Shire Library
Nobody built sports cars like British manufacturers in the 1950s and 1960s. There was something very special about the combination of low-slung open two-seater bodywork with a spartan interior, a slick sporting gearchange and a rorty exhaust note. This was wind-in-the-hair motoring, and it was affordabl ...Show more
Electric Cars by James Taylor
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Category: Planes Trains Automobiles | Series: Shire Library
An essential introduction to the surprisingly long history of the electric car, from the early pioneers, through to the first commercially viable marques such as Tesla.After a century in the shadow of the internal combustion engine, the electric motor is making a seismic comeback. Battery-propelled vehi ...Show more
Fashion in the 1950s by Daniel Milford-Cottam
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Category: Fashion & Textiles | Series: Shire Library
More than a footnote to the Second World War, or a foreword to the youth-obsessed exhilaration of the Sixties, the Fifties was a thrilling decade devoted to newness and freshness. The British people, rebuilding their lives and wardrobes, demanded modern materials, vibrant patterns and exciting prints in ...Show more
Thames Mudlarking - Searching for London's Lost Treasures by Jason Sandy; Nick Stevens
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Category: Travel | Series: Shire Library
A beautifully illustrated introduction to mudlarking which tells the incredible, forgotten history of London through objects found on the foreshores of the River Thames.Often seen combing the shoreline of the River Thames at low tide, groups of archaeology enthusiasts known as 'mudlarks' continue a trad ...Show more
Victorian Fashion by Jayne Shrimpton
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Category: Fashion & Textiles | Series: Shire Library
The sweeping crinolines, corsets, bustles, bonnets, and parasols of Victorian Britain are indispensable to our period dramas, and their influences can still be seen within burlesque and steampunk fashions. This is no surprise, as nineteenth-century clothing was so wide-ranging and decorative. We might u ...Show more
Wallpaper by Zoë Hendon
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Category: Design | Series: Shire Library
We agonize and argue when choosing it; we admire, compliment and criticize it (or keep politely quiet about it); and the rest of the time we don't even notice it. Wallpaper has been the backdrop to our homes for hundreds of years. It can make a house feel cozy or trendy, modern or traditional, and it is ...Show more
Who's Buried Where in London by Peter Matthews
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Category: Travel | Series: Shire Library
London's many cemeteries, churches and graveyards are the last resting places of a multitude of important people from many different walks of life. Politicians, writers and military heroes rub shoulders with engineers, courtesans, artists and musicians, along with quite a few eccentric characters. Arran ...Show more
Women in Aviation by Julian Hale
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Category: History | Series: Shire Library
This title charts the history of women's involvement in aviation, exploring how American and British women donned goggles and gloves to fly through a predominantly masculine world and onwards into an age of aviation equality. This title explores the scope of women's activities in aviation, from the time ...Show more
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