SOCIAL & LOCAL HISTORY
its approach to China by building on existing advantages.
Y Lolfa
Welsh Independence: 20 Practical Steps Jim Wingate, Jen Llywelyn 14th April, pb, £4.99, 9781800991866 Passionate, entertaining and practical workbook with exercises for readers to form their own action points and photocopiable information sheets to pass on.
Prince Charles and the Welsh Revolt Arwel Vittle 10th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781912631384 A history of the Welsh protest against the 1969 investiture of Prince Charles and the questions that remain about Prince William’s role today.
Zer0 Books
No Justice, No Police? Matt Clement 26th May, pb, eb, £22.99, 9781789049459 Why have the police become the new public enemy and can society keep the peace more effectively with or without them?
Social & local history
15th March, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781398101753 Fascinating exploration of the underground world and its history beneath the the Potteries in North Staffordshire.
Amber Books
Tartans Brenda Ralph Lewis 14th July, pb, £9.99, 9781838863227 Pocket illustrated guide on the key tartans from ancient Scottish clans to the present day.
Amberley West
Martin Wall, Robert Plant 15th February, hb, eb, £20, 9781398110199 Wall takes us on a search for lost lands in the west, charting the liminal energies that have so influenced our literature and himself.
The Yorkshire Coiners Steve Hartley 15th April, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781398113879 Sensational true story of the infamous 18th-century Cragg Vale Coiners gang and their eventual fate.
Donald Ross and the Highland Clearances Andrew Ross 15th June, hb, eb, £22.99, 9781398104266 Remarkable analysis of the shameful Highland clearances through the experience and effective defiance of one man.
Cranborne Chase: A Secret Landscape Roger Lane, Roger Holman 15th March, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781398113756 New-format paperback edition: a photographic journey through one of the south’s most historic and atmospheric landscapes.
Rochdale Canal John Evans 15th May, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781445695358 With a wealth of illus- trations, Evans tells the story of the canal and its revival.
50 Gems of Essex Kate J Cole 15th June, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781445688381 Beautifully photographed selection of the county’s most precious assets.
Going Underground Anthony Poulton-Smith
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Aberystwyth Reflections William Troughton 15th February, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781398106369 Merged historic and modern images reflect the changes in Aberystwyth through the decades.
A-Z of the Yorkshire Dales Mike Appleton 15th July, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781398112636 Explore the Dales in this illustrated guide to the area’s history, people and places.
Paranormal Northumberland Rob Kirkup 15th May, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781445698984 Spine-chilling collection of stories of hauntings, apparitions and supernatural activity.
Atlantic Books
A Home for All Seasons Gavin Plumley 4th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838954802 Both a sweeping history and an intimate account of making a home, told through the prism of an English country house.
Basic Books
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender Kit Heyam 11th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529377767 Globe-spanning, different and vital new history of gender.
Free Speech Jacob Mchangama 11th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781529382211 The first global history of free speech shows that we need to understand the past to address the challenges of the future.
Birlinn
Boatlines Ian Stephen 2nd March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781780277905 An alternative tour round the coasts of Scotland, moving from boat to boat through past and present. A fascinating journey told through Scotland’s vessels.
Glasgow: The Autobiography Alan Taylor (ed)
Brolga
Aussie Myths, Mysteries and Memories Mal Walden 29th May, pb, £9.95, 9780648697039 Australia’s favourite news- man brings his journalist’s eye to bear on stories of mythical monsters, UFOs, paranormal events and unsolved mysteries from Australian folklore.
Cambridge University Press
SERIES
A Writer’s City 23rd March, hb, eb, £19.99 Takes armchair travellers area by area and street by street through some of the most interesting cities in the world. Dublin Christopher Morash 9781108831642 New Orleans TR Johnson 9781316512067
C Hurst
Lancastrians Paul Salveson
Hardie Grant
Rainbow History Class Hannah McElhinney 16th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781743798348 This is your LGBTQ+ culture and history crash course from the TikTok writer and creator.
Johns Hopkins University Press
Lazaretto
David S Barnes 27th June, hb, eb, £26, 9781421446448 How the controversial practice of quarantine saved 19th-century Philadelphia after a series of deadly epidemics.
Liveright Corporation
Just Action Leah Rothstein, Richard Rothstein 28th July, hb, eb, £21.99, 9781324093244 How US government at all levels created segregation. Just Action describes how to undo it.
2nd March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781780278032 The tale of Glasgow from its origins as a village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde through the Industrial Revolution to the second millennium.
Bloomsbury Academic
A Dublin Magdalene Laundry Mark Coen (ed), Katherine O’Donnell (ed), Maeve O’Rourke (ed) 23rd February, pb, eb, £21.99, 9781350279049 In-depth examination of the history and legacy of the Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry.
Bloomsbury
Operation Chiffon Peter Taylor 30th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781526659637 Twenty-five years since the Good Friday Agreement helped bring peace to Ireland, Peter Taylor brings to life a landmark operation whose story has never been fully told until now.
James and John Chris Bryant 8th June, hb, eb, £25, 9781526644978 From historian and MP, this book tells the story of what it meant to be gay in early 19th-century Britain through the lens of a landmark trial.
29th June, hb, eb, £25, 9781787389335 Authoritative history of the great English county explores the impact of its people on Britain and beyond.
Duckworth
Vagabond Oskar Jensen 16th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780715654958 Compelling, moving and unexpected portraits of London’s poor from a rising star British historian (New Generation Thinker 2022). This is the Dickensian city brought to real and vivid life.
Edinburgh University Press
The Edinburgh History of Scottish Newspapers, 1850-1950 W Hamish Fraser 30th April, hb, £150, 9781399511537 Girst comprehensive examination of daily and weekly newspapers in Scotland in the century after 1850.
Graffeg
Senedd Trevor Fishlock 6th April, hb, eb, £9.99, 9781913134853 Documents the rise of Cardiff as a city and place of government through to the concepts, challenges and final acheivements of the Senedd building itself.
Luath Press
The Story of Loch Ness Katherine Stewart 30th March, pb, £8.99, 9781910022849 Stewart takes readers on a journey through the politics, heroes, villains and natural beauties that are the true source of the magic of Loch Ness.
Highland Cowboys Rob Gibson 28th February, pb, £8.99, 9781913025243 From droving to driving, heilan coos to longhorns, Highland Cowboys explores the links between the two cattle cultures of Scotland and America through music, song, dance and folklore.
Jules Verne’s Scotland Ian Thompson 28th February, pb, £8.99, 9781913025267 The landscape, scenery, mystery and history of the land.
The Price of Scotland Douglas Watt 28th February, 2nd edn, pb, £9.99, 9781913025595 Covers a well-known episode in Scottish history, the ill-fated Darien Scheme, and looks at unexamined evidence to consider the failure in light of the company’s financial records.
The Highland Clearances Trail Rob Gibson 28th February, pb, £6.99, 9781913025618 Significant sites of the clearances annotated in a vivid guide to produce a scholarly introduction to a tragic moment in Scotland’s history.
Macmillan
For the Culture Marcus Collins 11th May, hb, eb, £20, 9781035020010 One of America’s top advertising professionals explains why culture is the way to influence mass behaviour.
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 Peter N Lindfield (ed), Jon Stobart (ed), Joan Coutu (ed) 15th February, hb, eb, £65, 9780228014027 Considers the country house as lived and spatial experience, as aesthetic and symbolic object, and as an economic engine.
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