A glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years – its history, landscape and people – from the window of Britain’s many and magnificent railway journeys. Great British Train Journeys has been a hugely successful TV programme, which is now about to go into its third series on BBC2 in the spring of 2012. Much as Michael Palin built up a dedicated fan base for travel around the globe, so Michael Portillo has done likewise for lovers of trains in his explorations the length and breadth of the United Kingdom from the window of a train seat. Both charming and insightful, Michael again uses Bradhsawe’s guides, and now undertakes five unique journeys that were constructed by the Victorians from 1830-1900. Across 25 episodes he delve into this fascinating and colourful period of our history, and show how the modern British landscape was created from this Victorian legacy. From Windsor to Weymouth, Great Yarmouth to London, Oxford to Milford Haven, Berwick to Barrow, and finall

Great Victorian Railway Journeys: How Modern Britain Was Built by Victorian Steam Power

karen-farrington

Collins

Great Victorian Railways

Rome

Travel

Europe

Gramercy

Victory in Europe : D-Day to the Fall of Berlin

Clearway Logistics Phase 1a

Marvels & Mysteries Of The Unexplained - Imagination-defying Exploration Of Our World's Strangest Secrets

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

Arcturus foulsham

Maximum Security: Inside Stories from the World's Toughest Prisons

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

<p>An illustrated chronicle of the world's oldest practices, charting the development of capital punishment, penal servitude, transportation and corporal punishment amongst others. The illustrations combine contemporary and historical pictures with archive relics and memorabilia.</p>

Hamlyn history of punishment and torture

Hamlyn

A narrative journey through the beliefs, legends and folklore that have grown up around the subjects of witchcraft and magic. The great magicians, mystics and seers are described and the mysteries of divination and fortune-telling unravelled.

The Hamlyn Book of the Supernatural (Hamlyn History)

History

Americas

All instructions and easy to assemble paper cut out kit to make a antique steam locomotive. Follow the instructions and all you need is a pair of scissors, craft knife and some glue.

Build Your Own Steam Locomotive: A Complete, Easy-To-Assemble Model

Nick Constable

Parragon, Incorporated

Make Your Own Human Skeleton

Pat Doyle

P3 Publishing

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