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Patrick Shaw Stewart, An Edwardian Meteor          Patrick Shaw Stewart, An Edwardian Meteor

Shaw Stewart was born into the Scottish gentry and was the cleverest and most interesting of a group of friends killed in the First World War. What this perceptive and long overdue biography so brilliantly evokes is the final flush of the Edwardian aristocracy before its sudden immersion in the realities of war. His close friends included Rupert Brooke, Raymond Asquith, Julian Grenfell, Duff Cooper, Diana Manners, Violet Asquith and Vita Sackville-West. Perhaps their greatest legacy is their correspondence – often revealing, occasionally intimate, always honest – which brings their world into focus and stands full square at the heart of this book.

MILES JEBB

Hardback, 248 pages + 16 pages b/w plates. ISBN 978-1-904-34977-8


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Bournemouth 1810-2010, From Smugglers to Surfers          Bournemouth 1810-2010, From Smugglers to Surfers

To celebrate Bournemouth’s bicentenary year, a distinguished team of writers was commissioned to tell the town’s extraordinary 200-year history. The result is a remarkable portrait of a place that has grown from a handful of houses overlooking the Bourne stream into an internationally famous resort. Illustrated with over 350 maps, photographs, paintings, posters, engravings and portraits – many of them rare and never published before.

EDITED BY VINCENT MAY AND JAN MARSH

A4 hardback, 200 pages, ISBN 978-1-904-34976-1


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Walking Purbeck          Walking Purbeck

Revised and Updated Edition

Fifteen circular walks within the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site amidst some of England’s most glorious countryside. Full colour Ordnance Survey mapping. Illustrated throughout in colour. Walks from 2 to 9 miles in length.

ANDREW BIBBY

Paperback, 96 pages, ISBN 978-1-904-34980-8


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Rope, Net & Twine, The Bridport Textile Industry          Rope, Net & Twine, The Bridport Textile Industry

Remarkably, no definitive account of the Bridport textile industry has been published until now, yet few industries have so dominated the character and changing fortunes of a town as that of rope, net and twine in Bridport.

Readable but scholarly, with sections on every known Bridport manufacturer, illustrated with well over 200 photographs, engravings, portraits, maps and plans - many of which have never been published before - Rope, Net & Twine documents an industry and way of life whose legacy still endures.

RICHARD SIMS

Hardback, 160 pages, 200 b/w illustrations  ISBN 978-1-904-34972-3


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Cornwall Railway Stations          Cornwall Railway Stations

This is the first comprehensive, fully illustrated book on Cornwall's stations and halts to be published. It includes photographs, a number of them rare, of all but a handful of short-lived halts. Over the years Cornwall has been served by 102 stations and halts. Today 37 of these are still open, 32 on the main network and the remainder on the privately run lines that keep alive the spirit of the railway age in the county.

MIKE OAKLEY

Large format hardback, 144 pages

ISBN 978 1 904 34968 6


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The Stalbridge Inheritance - From Roman Times to the late Eighteenth Century          The Stalbridge Inheritance - From Roman Times to the late Eighteenth Century

The long-awaited first volume of Irene Jones's definitive history of the small Dorset market town of Stalbridge. A rich tapestry of English life set against the backdrop of the great national events that shaped the ebb and flow of Stalbridge's fortunes.

IRENE JONES

Paperback, 128 pages
16 pages of b/w plates.

ISBN 978 1 904 34971 6


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The Great Trees of Dorset  The Great Trees of Dorset

A celebration of one of Dorset's greatest glories.

With names like Billy Wilkins, the Posy Tree and Judge Wyndham's Oak, Dorset's ancient trees are amongst its most precious living treasures. At least two pre-date Christianity, one is the widest oak in the country. The Martyrs' Tree has been named one of Britain's 'top ten' trees.

Today Dorset's veteran trees support a rich and often internationally rare wildlife, and are at last being recognised as living icons of national importance.

ANDREW POLLARD & EMMA BRAWN
Photographs by Colin Varndell

112 pages, full colour throughout
£16.95 Hardback - ISBN 978 1 904 34970 9
£9.95 Paperback - ISBN 978 1 904 34973 0


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