Britain Yesterday and Today

Janice Anderson & Edmund Swinglehurst • £20

Britain Yesterday & Today takes a nostalgic look at every aspect of British life over the past 150 years. By contrasting beautiful black-and-white images with colour photographs, it presents the amazing social changes that make Britain what it is today. From sport and leisure to the workplace, from the countryside to the city and from shore to shore, Britain Yesterday & Today transports you through time with more than 150 photographs and illuminating commentary. Reflecting on great royal occasions, national obsessions and unique events, as well as changes to urban areas and the impact of technology, this is a delightful look at Britain past and present.

The Illustrated Book of Heraldry

Stephen Slater • £15

This informative book looks not only at the medieval world in which heraldry thrived, but also at its language, the elaborate system of coded messages it conveyed, and its inextricable link with chivalry. Featuring more than 700 illustrations, it also covers both the larger aspects of heraldry and everyday heraldic uses, and contains a comprehensive glossary.

Struggle and Suffrage in Manchester: Women’s Lives and the Fight for Equality

Glynis Cooper • £12.99
Pen & Sword

This book celebrates the struggle for the recognition of female rights, the centenary of female suffrage and the 90th anniversary of universal suffrage. The suffrage movement was born in the appalling conditions of the 19th century Manchester millscapes. As well as the famous names, this is also the story of the countless thousands of women of Manchester, whose names are lost to us, but without whose determination the development of modern Britain would have been very different.