Classic workwear, sports and military clothingCurated by connoisseurs of vintage clothing, the Vintage Showroom is a vast collection of rare 20th-century pieces that fashion designers and stylists pay to view, using the cut and detailing of individual garments as inspiration for their own work. Offering one-of-a-kind access, Vintage Menswear now makes this unique resource available in book form.Featuring 130 of the most influential examples of 20th-century and earlier Europ...

What skills does one really need to be a modern man?After being given yet another pointless 'man manual' that told him 50 ways to tie a bow tie in under 30 seconds, James May was certain there was a need for another kind of book. This book, in fact.He reckons there are nine vital things that a chap should be able to do. Not stuff you can download from the Internet, but really important things. You never know when you might need to land an A330 Airbus, or de...

2016 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — NominatedAn account of the women working in high-security, dangerous conditions making bombs in Toronto during the Second World War.What was it like to work in a Canadian Second World War munitions factory? What were working conditions like? Did anyone die? Just how closely did female employees embody the image of “Rosie the Riveter” so popularly advertised to...

We all have treasures hidden away in the attic, well-loved and well-worn belongings that have been passed down from generation to generation. They may be damaged or no longer working, but we can't bear to part with them. The expert craftspeople of hit BBC series The Repair Shop are dedicated to restoring and conserving these heirlooms. They know that the true worth of these possessions doesn't lie in their monetary value, but in the memories they hold and the stories they tell.In t...

It is a largely forgotten fact that Britain was the first industrialized country in the world, but Guy Martin - the cult motorcycle racer and mechanic - is about to remind us how the industrial revolution helped make Britain great.Guy shows how the discoveries made in the late 18th-19th centuries are to thank for the ease of our every day lives: in order to cook a bacon and egg sandwich in Industrial-era conditions, Guy has to restore a steam locomotive and railway to have the comp...

The wilderness is much closer than you think. Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps.In the same way the Romantic writers taught us to look at hills, lakes and rivers, poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts write about mobile masts and gravel pits, business parks and landfill sites, taking the reader on a journey to marve...

Working as a fireman in London’s East End during the early 1970s was no easy ride. In the years before workplace health-and-safety legislation had started to exert its grip, Allan Grice had to cut his fire-and-rescue teeth without the advantages of a breathing apparatus for each member of his crew. Back then, the time-tested strategy was to ‘get in’ – to crawl below the intense heat and ‘eat’ the thick smoke – in order to locate a missing child or to halt a rapidly spreading inferno.

With the aid of stringy glue and scalpel-sliced fingers, young and old have turned display cabinets and bedrooms into mini-museums, or tiny battlefields.This book looks at the fascinating tale of this British company, a pioneer in the world of modelling, as well as its products, its changing fortunes over the years, and its links with popular culture.Using colour images, Trevor Pask explores this thriving pastime, allowing Airfix kit lovers to indulge in a ...

Ernie Pyle was one of America's most popular newspaper columnists. Late in 1940, he went to England to observe and write about the Blitz. Pyle wrote about daily life and the scenes and people he encountered. His columns from December 1940 to March 1941 were compiled in this volume.

Part of Osprey Modelling 37: Modelling the Tiger I, a detailed modelling guide on the '1331', 13./SS-Panzer Regiment I, Kursk 1943 in 1/35 scale.Probably the most famous tank of World War II, the Tiger I was stepped up after the appearance of the Soviet T-34 and KW tanks lent a further impetus to the programme. 1,350 Tigers were produced between August 1942 and August 1944, and The Tiger has proved to be one of the most popular modelling subjects of all ti...

Hold on to your seat! This is a collection or stories of interest to all. The author is not confessing to a lot of misdeeds in his life of doing it but he has had an interesting and full life. His life in Northern Maine, Connecticut, The Air Force, Colorado and California, was sometimes humorous and sometimes tragic but always true. His story about the problems and fun of building a house on a tiny island in the British West Indies has been published in magazines and newspapers. There is a...

This is the story of a young boy that was 'born to fly' It tells of his early days as an Apprentice in the Royal Air Force