This book looks at the physical manifestations - buildings and structures - of the Cold War in England. Illustrated with contemporary and archive photographs, site and building plans it looks at the buildings within their military and political context.

Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989

History

Barnwell, P.S.

Cocroft, Wayne D

Thomas, Roger c.

Military

Historic England in association with Liverpool University Press

It used to be said that whenever a football manager needed a goal scorer all he had to do was travel to the North East, call down a mineshaft and up would pop a centre forward. This book guides the reader on a tour of the area's sporting treasures; from the site of the celebrated Blaydon Races in Newcastle to a cockfighting pit in Tynemouth.

Played in Tyne and Wear: Charting the Heritage of People at Play

Pearson, Lynn

Europe

Aunt Sally in Oxford, Toad in the Hole in Lewes, bagatelle in Chester, quoits in Darlington and bat and trap in Kent - they sound like relics of a bygone age, and yet contrary to popular belief, the pub games of Britain live on. Traditional games such as nipsy (the poor man's golf), played by Barnsley miners, may have died out in the 1990s, joining in the history books such former favourites as guile bones, noddy board, slide thrust, fox-mine-host, tick-tack, and the mysterious milking cromock. But new games emerge all the time so that nowadays, regulars are just as likely to be entering pub quizzes (the first quiz league was recorded in Bootle in 1959), or playing pool (which arrived via Australia during the 1960s) or petanque (brought over from France). Fashions may move on but find any decent pub and the chances are that there are games to be played. Arthur Taylor published his first study of British pub games in 1976, updated it in 1992, and now, with Played at the Pub, brings us his third and most extensive study so far. This time, to add to his encyclopaedic knowledge and infectious enthusiasm, there are copious illustrations, many of them contemporary images taken by English Heritage's own specialist photographers.

Played at the Pub: The Pub Games of Britain

Humor & Entertainment

Taylor, Arthur

Puzzles & Games

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