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This photographic survey records the work and contributions of women on the Home Front in a wide variety of services and military branches supporting the war effort. With around 150 images, it illustrates the breadth of roles they filled, from agriculture, policing and meteorology to building bomber engines and maintaining anti-aircraft guns.

As Britain’s railways switched to electric and diesel engines in the 1960s, a growing band of enthusiasts became determined to preserve steam locomotion for posterity. This collection of photographs, from the Bodmin and Wenford Railway to Llangollen and the North York Moors, depicts the surviving lines and the special events they often hold to celebrate Britain’s history and culture.

This humorous celebration of the weirdest British sports and pastimes, including Cheese Rolling, Pooh Sticks and Gravy Wrestling, is fully illustrated, with many images coming from events that are rooted in cultural peculiarities, such as the Pantomime Horse Grand National, or quirky local traditions, such as the Nettle Eating Championships or the Alnwick Shrovetide Football.

The 1605 Gunpowder Plot is one of the best-known events in British history, commemorated on 5 November each year. This book re-evaluates the evidence about the origins, depth and extent of the plot. It profiles the conspirators, including Robert Catesby and Guy Fawkes, and examines their backgrounds, aims and objectives. It follows their trial and execution, and reveals for the first time how close they came to overthrowing the government. Slightly off-mint.

The Handley Page Victor bomber was developed to carry Britain's nuclear deterrent in the late 1950s and repurposed for reconnaissance and refuelling duties from the late 1960s. Photographs of the Victor at all stages of its development and deployment accompany the text in this concise history.

Europe's most important combat aircraft, the Typhoon has been at the forefront of the British, German, Italian and Spanish air forces. This brief illustrated history describes the design and development of the 'Eurofighter' from the mid 1990s, and its operational history.

This succinct history of British canals and canalboats is highly illustrated with archive illustrations and modern photographs. A useful introduction for enthusiasts and holidaymakers, it tells the story of building and working on the canals and explores the network today.

This pocket history of the famous shipping line contains postcards, illustrations and photographs of famous vessels, including Lusitania and QE2, as well as an overview of its development and fact boxes with trivia about the ships.

This catalogue of ghastly episodes in Herefordshire’s past features tales of murderers, bodysnatchers, duellists, poachers, and others including the farmer bitten to death by his horse in 1887, and a young man from Colwall who allegedly sat on a spike. Throughout this array of catastrophes and tragedies, Nicola Sly gives an insight into the broader social history of the county.

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The Empire Windrush has become a symbol of the generation that came to Britain from the Caribbean in the aftermath of the Second World War, but the story of the ship itself is less well known. Built in Hamburg in 1930, the Monte Rosa transported prisoners to Auschwitz before it was captured by the British and renamed; and after its famous voyage, the ship saw action in the Korean War.