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A Dreaming for the Witches: The Recreation of the Dobunni Primal Myth thumbnail A Dreaming for the Witches: The Recreation of the Dobunni Primal Myth
    £19.95
In The Tribe of Witches a wide-ranging theoretical framework for understanding the major cults worshipped amongst the Iron-Age tribal group c... See details

A Forest Beat, The Forest of Dean Police 1839-2000 thumbnail A Forest Beat, The Forest of Dean Police 1839-2000
Geoff Sindrey and Ted Heath    £15.00
The history of the Forest of Dean's Police force over a period of 161 years, from a clip around the ear for scrumping to weightier investigat... See details

A Glance Back at...Lydney Docks thumbnail A Glance Back at...Lydney Docks
Neil Parkhouse    £7.50
Part of the popular "Glance Back" series of archive photographs with informative text. This time focusing on Lydney Docks.... See details

Archive thumbnail Archive
    £6.75
Quarterly journal of the British Industrial and Transport History Society, containing various articles. Most recent issue available as well a... See details

Blood on Coal thumbnail Blood on Coal
Ralph Anstis    £9.99
A harrowing account of the suffering and privations endured by the miners of the Forest of Dean during the seven month lockout which followed... See details

Exploring Historic Dean: Fourteen Scenic Walks in and Around an Ancient Forest thumbnail Exploring Historic Dean: Fourteen Scenic Walks in and Around an Ancient Forest
John Sheraton and Rod Goodman    £9.95
This book describes fourteen walks covering the whole Forest of Dean. It show where some of the most interesting historic sites are found, a... See details

Forest Miner thumbnail Forest Miner
Alan Marfell    £3.99
A new edition of a popular little book that was first published by us in 1980. It is a first hand and therefore authentic account of lifeand... See details

Meet at the Schools thumbnail Meet at the Schools
Ian Hendy    £14.95
A comprehensive history of education in the village of Bream,

Researching the history of the last 100 years, in order to mark the pres... See details


Murders and Misdemeanours in Gloucestershire 1820-1829 thumbnail Murders and Misdemeanours in Gloucestershire 1820-1829
Malcolm Hall Malcolm Hall    £12.99
Foul deeds brought to the attention of the Circuit Judges in their biannual visits to the Gloucester County Assizes.160 pages 20 engravings.... See details

No Quarter! thumbnail No Quarter!
Captain Mayne Reid    £14.99
This historical adventure was written in the 1880s and is set in the Forest of Dean during the English Civil Wars of 1640–51 when the lands o... See details

Primrose Hill - Church and Community thumbnail Primrose Hill - Church and Community
Aileen Powell    £8.99
Written t commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the present church building, this is the story of the Primrose Hill community over the... See details

Retrieving Wenty's Sturty Bird thumbnail Retrieving Wenty's Sturty Bird
Ian Hendy    £11.99
A "Sturty Bird" if you didn't know is a small stick which is hit in a children's game and provides a link to the stories of all the people na... See details

Robert Mushet and the Darkhill Ironworks thumbnail Robert Mushet and the Darkhill Ironworks
Keith Webb    £7.99
Robert Mushet is the father of modern steel alloys. His pioneering experiments, carried out at his Darkhill Ironworks, near Coleford in the F... See details

Severn Tanking thumbnail Severn Tanking
B. A. Lane    £6.95
A personal account of a working life spent navigating this often treacherous river.... See details

Story of Parkend thumbnail Story of Parkend
Ralph Anstis    £9.99
A history of the village which contains much of industrial, colliery and railway interest. Paperback 80 pages. 215mm x 270mm... See details

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