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St Paul's School for Girls in Edgbaston, Birmingham celebrates it centenary in 2008. This book describes the school through the years at work and play. It also describes the effect of two world wars upon the school, its spiritual experience and its academic and sporting achievements. It features personalities who have shaped the school.

Explores a year of the work, of the Birmingham Faith Leaders' Group, from July 2006 - 12 months in which acts of terrorism overseas, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and violence on the streets of Birmingham challenged the faith leaders to seek harmony and justice and to explore the impact which faith could bring to bear on the city of Birmingham.

Betty Wherry was an apprentice gilder at Royal Crown Derby in the 1930s, who rose through the Company to become Gilding Trainer and Assistant Curator of the factory's prestigious museum. This autobiography describes her apprenticeship in the porcelain industry, the people she met and the life and work of a gilder.

West, a Londoner by birth, settled in Birmingham in 1854, at a time when surgery was being transformed. Anaesthesia enabled surgeons to operate without subjecting patients to the agonising ordeals of the past and was adopted by West and his colleagues. James West kept a journal. The diary provides an insight into West's character.

Second in the series covering 1930s to 1960, this book includes stories and photographs from Suttonians and temporary residents. It also recounts life in the town, railway employment and some humorous encounters with a Sergeant Major.

As the child of a family running a busy village shop, the author developed the ability to be 'a fly on the wall' watching, listening and establishing lasting memories. Here, she draws up a very special picture of life in the Worcestershire village of Ombersley during the 1940s. She also recalls her Grandmother's stories.

A study of the impact of World War II on village, town and city life within the county of Worcestershire. Chapters include the preparation for invasion, the county's contribution to the fighting services, life on the Home Front, and various wartime anecdotes.

The Birmingham of the 1920s and 1930s is recalled by Donald Pigott. Despite the unremitting poverty, unemployment and depressed economy, life in the city had many simple pleasures. "Homes Fit For Heroes", tea in town, and preaching and teaching, are some of the many topics recalled.

The author spent her childhood in an isolated North Wiltshire village during the nineteen twenties, and subsequently trained as a teacher of young children in Salisbury. Set in the nineteen twenties, this book traces the impact of rural upbringing and a now vanished way of life upon the author and her sisters.

Birmingham's 1001 trades are reflected in this collection of photographs, including large and small factories, retail outlets and city-centre stores.

Magor, in Welsh Magwyr, is one of the 'villages so green' in the poem "Days that have been" by W H Davies, which lies in the south-east of Wales between the Wentwood and the Severn sea. This title collects information on the history of the village.

Gives a comprehensive account of the post war housing built in the village of Marston Green, including Lyndon Croft, Digby Drive, Aylesford Drive to Moseley Drive and the numerous fill in culde-sacs which have appeared around the village.

Tells the story of Grenville J Davies, a young man from the Welsh Valleys who was taken Prisoner of War at the beginning of WWII. Retold from a diary Gren was able to keep on scraps of paper obtained whilst in camp, this book also shows how prisoners, with no hope of escaping, did their best to live off their wits and impede the German war effort.

The author has long been interested in how plant derived substances can prove beneficial to Medicine. Writings on papyrus from the earliest times have described the use of willow bark for soothing inflamed wounds. Here, he explores the bark of the willow, from which by chemical modification, aspirin was obtained.

By the Reverend John Bassett - the "Railway Chaplain". This work describes the bus and coach operators of Staffordshire and North Warwickshire in the 1930s and 1940s.

Merevale Church contains some of the most important Cistercian stained glass in the British Isles, and includes the Jesse window. Opening with a history of the Abbey, this book contains a description of the medieval and 19th-century glass, with over 120 pieces listed in the East window alone.

Tells the true story of the Worcestershire brothers, Mac and Barry Goodwin, whose mastery of the air as teenagers and then as RAF pilots in 605 (The County of Warwick) Squadron and 609 (West Riding) Squadron in WW2 flying Hurricanes and Spitfires is set against a privileged family background.

The 70s were an eventful time for the BBC with the last days of Broad Street, the opening of Pebble Mill and the Corporation's 50th Anniversary. This title intends to represent, as much as possible, the professional and amateur activities.

An illustrated history of Britain's "motor city", Coventry, during World War II.

A photographic history of the Warwickshire Constabulary from Victorian times to the present day. One early photograph in the collection, for instance, depicts the Inspector at Stratford-upon-Avon with a horse-drawn two-wheeler, driven by a constable who served both as groom and personal assistant.