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The history of humans in the Frome area stretches right back to Palaeolithic times and Frome first appears as a settlement as early as the Saxon period. This fascinating book covers the entire period...

Gerontius And Other PoemsAuthor: Pete GagePublisher: Hobnob PressPublication Date: Feb 28, 2022Number of Pages: 102 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1914407318ISBN-13: 9781914407314

In His Own Words - 9781906978945Author: George DowtyPublisher: Hobnob PressPublication Date: Nov 27, 2020Number of Pages: 162 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1906978948ISBN-13:...

Collection of memories (1826-1950) by choristers and others associated with Salisbury Cathedral School (Wiltshire, England).Author: Peter L. SmithPublisher: Hobnob PressPublication Date: Jun 19,...

John Billingsley of Ashwick Grove in the Somerset Mendips of south-west England - agricultural pioneer and 'improver'. His story gives a unique insight into eighteenth-century rural life in the west...

Reprint of classic social history of Corsley, Wiltshire, first published 1909, reset and with new introduction about the life, work and death of the author, a pioneer sociologist. The book caused...

History of Imber, a remote village on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, which was evacuated for military training during World War Two, and the unsuccessful campaign to permit the villagers to return...

The thrust of this book is ostensibly a history of the Association of Wiltshiremen in London, but there are other themes too, including cool things you may not have known about the county, and its...

Rebecca Smith, from Bratton near Westbury in Wiltshire, southern England, was the last woman in Britain to be hanged for infanticide of her own baby. She suffered her punishment at Devizes. But this...

This volume of 64 poems contains a small collection of 13 or so poems written by the younger Pete Gage. The final 51 poems in this third volume of Pete's poetry were written from 2021 to 2023, when...

Fully illustrated history of the pantomimes written by Henry Marshall and performed at Salisbury Playhouse (Wiltshire, England) between 1955 and 1985, including the full text of Marshall's gagbook,...

Comprises a collection of vignettes about nature revealing itself month by month to the patient river-watcher, touching upon the many values that rivers confer upon us and pausing for some deeper...

Alphabetical list of those who died during World War II from Swindon and the surrounding district of Wiltshire, with lists of prisoners of war and those awarded medals for gallantry.Author: Katherine...

Ron SworeAuthor: Norman BealePublisher: Hobnob PressPublication Date: Nov 20, 2020Number of Pages: 148 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1906978972ISBN-13: 9781906978976

Brought up in her grandmother's Lincolnshire cottage during World War Two, Judith Nicholls has lived in Wiltshire since 1970. Her first collection of poems, Magic Mirror, was published by Faber in...

Selected Poems and The Testament : Facsimile ReprintAuthor: Alfred WilliamsPublisher: Hobnob PressPublication Date: Jun 03, 2020Number of Pages: 230 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Social history of an area in Wiltshire and Hampshire (southern England) bordering the New Forest, 1837-1914.Author: Stephen IngsPublisher: Hobnob PressPublication Date: Jan 10, 2010Number of Pages:...

The Penruddock Rising against Cromwell in 1655 captured Salisbury but was soon put down. This episode - scarcely remembered despite giving rise to rule by the Major-Generals - provides insights into...

Authoritative and very detailed study by acknowledged road transport history expert of the stage coach trade between Bristol and London, 1650s to 1840s, which provides the key to understanding the...

The poems in this collection broadly reflect upon the relationship between humans, and other living things, and the rocks, water and air that are so vital for our individual and collective spirit...

Stuff the Bustard: and Other PoemsAuthor: Sue KempPublisher: Hobnob PressPublication Date: Mar 06, 2020Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1906978816ISBN-13:...

Sweet MedicineAuthor: Sue BoddingtonPublisher: Hobnob PressPublication Date: May 10, 2021Number of Pages: 280 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1914407083ISBN-13: 9781914407086

Autobiography describing the childhood in Swindon, Wiltshire, England of an immigrant boy from Monserrat, West Indies, who went on to become a distinguished barrister and law lecturer.Author: David R...

Swindon : A Born Again Swindonian's GuideAuthor: Angela AtkinsonPublisher: Hobnob PressPublication Date: Jun 24, 2020Number of Pages: 98 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Swindon, one of the largest towns in southern England, has a long, diverse and fascinating past, beginning with prehistoric and Roman settlers, and continuing as a medieval market and small town, a...

Early photographs have an undeniable power, providing a window to our past with an immediacy that is hard to match - documenting change and capturing history. Museums, archives and local studies...

Eventful and colourful history of the Arundell family, landed gentry based at Wardour Castle, south-west Wiltshire (UK), from the 16th to 20th century, engagingly written for the general reader but...

The Jurassic Coast, A Poet's Journey: A Poet's JourneyAuthor: Amanda K Hampson, Sheila HaleyPublisher: Hobnob PressPublication Date: March 06, 2021Number of Pages: 110 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Full length biography and study of influential English poet and Wiltshire clergyman, setting him in his literary context, and among his circle of friends and acquaintancesAuthor: Robert...

Historical novel, first of a trilogy, set in south-east Wiltshire in 1633. Robert Penny, a twice-widowed father, returns to the parish of his birth with his eleven-year-old son Samuel. Struggling to...