An examination of the changing ways in which Christmas has been celebrated throughout Devon......


Victorian tales of Christmas set in Devon......


original Victorian tales of Christmas set in Exeter in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries......


Four Chronicles brought together to appear in print for the first time.......


These five wimsical love stories were first published in Devon......


A collection of several hundred topographical images of country houses and their gardens......


A collection of over 260 topographical images of the moor over the last three hundred years.......


Forming a storehouse of varied historic facts from the earliest times up to the modern day ......


The first reprinting in over a hundred years of a collection of original Victorian tales of Christmas set on Dartmoor ......


A story of destruction and re-birth told from confidential papers of the civil defence papers not published before. ......


This is a follow up book to Exeter in the 1940s. It is Exeter seen through the memories of more than 200 people who lived in the city during these key years.......


A collection of several hundred topographical images of religious building of the city.......


A collection of over 260 topographical images of the city of Exeter over the last three hundred years......


A pocket-sized book, introducing a key part of Devon's history......


A collection of 261 photographs many not seen since they appeared in the newspapers during the war years.......


2000 years of history have given Exeter a number of distinctions from other places......


A surprising collection of 270 unpublished and unknown historical images of Exeter from 1662 to 1949......

Devon’s Anglican churches are our greatest storehouse of ancient treasures but the sheer number of them (there are more than 600)




This book is fascinating and detailed and will give the reader a new appreciation of the monuments in their various forms........


An innovative way of looking at the history of Devon......


A collection of more than 100 illustrations, most of the previously unknown, tell the story of how Exeter has developed over the last 500 years.......


This book deals with the lives of a selection of women in Devon. Some are very famous such as Lady Astor others not so but they have led extraordinary lives.......


The event which was the talk of Totnes at the end of the seventeenth century: on an April evening in 1699 the former vicar scanalised the town's inhabitants......


This book contains 20 travellers' tales from the last five centuries of Cornwall and they are a highly enjoyable read as well as an invaluable source of information for local historians.......


Travellers' accounts of England from some of the earliest descriptions we have of local people and the landscape.......


This book contains five centuries of travellers' accounts (drawn from journals, diaries & letters) of the city previously know as the 'Metropolis of the West'.......


Short original news reports which recounted events and everyday life in Totnes to the outside would including notes on weather, fires, the anual Races,......


In the spring of 1854 Exeter awaited the trial of a group of local people arrested for the Bread Riots of the previous winter.......


A stunningly beautiful book but the subject matter remains a Victorian mystery.......
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