Madam V traces the journey of Virginia Vernon during WW2, who was tasked with looking after the welfare of performers ...

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There is plenty of information about military dress in Roman Britain and the rest of the Roman Empire, but the evidence for civilian dress has not been comprehensively looked at since the 1930s. In ...

For the first time in print a book identifies each regiment and illustrates the change in uniforms, the colour of the facings and the nature and shape of the lace for the officers, NCOs and private ...

Sussex, though near London and nowadays extensively urbanised, has a rich heritage of traditional local stories, customs and beliefs. Among many topics explored here are tales linked to landscape ...

‘A much-needed, highly-readable reassessment of a maligned Tudor woman. Soberton goes back to the original sources in their original language, offering fresh insight, questioning old myths, and ...

Madam V tells the true story of American-born Virginia Vernon’s transformative journey through the Second World War, looking after the welfare of performers entertaining the British troops at home and ...

MARTIN W. BOWMAN is the author of over 100 books on military and commercial aviation as well as photographic books on a variety of subjects. He has participated in German and USAFE air/land and night ...

The West End of London has long been a magnet to those attracted by impressive architecture and grand streets and squares. This detailed book delves deep into its eight distinctive areas, to present ...

JOHN and COLLEEN DARNELL are a husband-and-wife Egyptologist team. They have presented on the Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic, the Science Channel, and Smithsonian, as well as ...

Adam Bushnell, Nigel Clifton (Illustrator), ...

ALISON TAYLOR is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists and editor of the Proceedings of Cambridge Antiquarian Society. She was County Archaeologist ...