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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 thumbnail A Glance Back at...Lydney
Neil Parkhouse    £4.50
Part of the popular "Glance Back" series of archive photographs with informative text. This time focusing on Lydney.... 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

Aspects of Awre thumbnail Aspects of Awre
The Awre Millennium Committee    £9.99
A history of the village of Awre up to and beyond the year 2000, including some of its notable buildings and accounts of inhabitants of this ... 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

Branch Lines around Lydney - Including Coleford and Lydbrook thumbnail Branch Lines around Lydney - Including Coleford and Lydbrook
    £14.95
The journey starts at Berkeley Road and dwells at length at Sharpness Docks, which had two swing bridges. Another one follows on the approach... See details

Chepstow and the River Wye thumbnail Chepstow and the River Wye
Anne Rainsbury    £12.99
This newly revised book comprises an extensive collection of quality archive photographs, drawn from the collections of Chepstow Museum, to c... See details

Down the Dig - Monmouth, an Adventure in Archaeology thumbnail Down the Dig - Monmouth, an Adventure in Archaeology
Stephen Clarke    £20.00
This book spans fifty years of a life in archaeology but the story opens in 1986 with an extraordinary discovery on a building site. Two met... See details

Edwardian Dean in Colour, Volume 1 thumbnail Edwardian Dean in Colour, Volume 1
Neil Parkhouse and Ian Pope    £7.50
An exquisite collection of tinted postcards depicting the settlements and landscape of the Forest of Dean from the period 1906-1914.... 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

Frampton On Severn: Portrait Of a Victorian Village thumbnail Frampton On Severn: Portrait Of a Victorian Village
Rose Spence    £19.99
Based on the drawings of the ladies of the Clifford family from the 1860's this is a fascinating window on a long past world. This book throw... See details

Highest Point of Dean thumbnail Highest Point of Dean
Maurice V. Bent    £14.00
A history of the Village of Ruardean Woodside and its residents.... See details

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