Why do marching maids hold up Bristol's traffic? Why do schoolgirls throw chrysanthemums at a statue? What are ''Tuppeny Starvers'' and why are they given to school-children every Easter? 
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A detailed and well-illustrated description of the development and operation of stage and mail coach services in and around Bath, Bristol and Somerset. 
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What happened in Bristol during the 1914-1918 War? James Belsey has uncovered an extraordinary and moving story, never before told. He cuts through layers of myth and propaganda to present a true picture of the full tragic impact on the war on the cit 
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The 30-year existence of this Somerset canal led its promoters from rejoicing to ruin.  
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From the tail-end of the sixties and into the seventies, a beautiful 19th c grain warehouse in Bristol’s historic dockside area became a hotbed of rock music and outrageously liberal attitudes.  
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Local author Mike Kelly’s moving and controversial account of his platoon’s involvement in the Borneo Emergency of 1962-3, the last engagement before the Durham Light Infantry were disbanded. 
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THE LATVIAN ISSUES by Robert Fearnley. The story of Latvia Post, which began operations in the chaotic aftermath of the First World War.  
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This first major study dealing exclusively with the history of the Jews of Cornwall shows there were flourishing Jewish communities in Falmouth and Penzance -- and to a lesser extent in Truro and elsewhere -- in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 
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John Wood was not just Bath’s most famous architect. He was an assiduous mythmaker. Druidic culture, Greek and Jewish history and alchemy were all grist to his mill as was Stonehenge, of which he made the first accurate survey. In this book, Kirsten Ell 
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The Ringing Grooves of Change tells the story of how one man changed Bath forever, describes the navvies, drinking, whoring and fighting in shanty towns, and vividly paints the turbulent times when Brunel brought the railway to Bath. 
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