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The rag trade: the people who made our clothes
Paperback. English.
Published
Stroud: Amberley, 2017
Rebecca Thomas convicted for running a sweat shop in the Promenade, Cheltenham under the 1867 Workshop Regulation Act. Edward Brydges appointed Clerk...
Shiny pennies and grubby pinafores: how we overcame hardship to raise a happy family in the 1950s
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Abacus, 2010
'Shiny Pennies And Grubby Pinafores' is a heart-warming account of a bygone way of life in rural England in the 1950s
Cider with Rosie
Hardback. English.
Published
London: Vintage Classic, 2014
This is a vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing...
The life and loves of Laurie Lee
Paperback. English.
Published
London: The Robson Press, 2014
Published to mark the centenary of Laurie Lee's birth, Valerie Grove finds in Lee's private correspondence hitherto unknown elements in the Laurie Lee...
The last English poachers
Hardback. English.
Published
London: Simon & Schuster, 2015
A unique portrait of a disappearing outlaw tradition of English rural life, as told by two genuine poachers with a love of the countryside
A moment in time: John and Thomas Keble and their Cotswold life
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Umbria, 2017
John Keble is best remembered for the Oxford College founded in his memory; his role in the seminal Oxford Movement, and for the hymns that he wrote and...
