Local and family history, nostalgia

Wenn Mamsell einmal im Jahr ihren wohlverdienten Urlaub nimmt, beginnt im gräflichen Haus ein großes Jammern und Wehklagen.

Ilse Gräfin von Bredow nimmt ihre Altergenossen ins Visier: Von ausgeklügelten Gedächtnistrainings für Senioren und den besorgniserregenden Gedächtnislücken der Jugend, von überbesorgten Töchtern, die ihre Väter älter machen, als sie sind, und dem fidelen Ehepaar, das lieber mit seiner Haushaltshilfe Karten spielt, als diese putzen zu lassen: Mit ihrem berühmt-liebevollen Augenzwinkern erzählt Ilse Gräfin von Bredow aus dem Leben der wichtigsten "Randgruppe" unserer Gesellschaft.

Manche Erlebnisse mit Tieren sind unvergesslich: Henne Berta fasst einen Dieb.

›Kartoffeln mit Stippe‹ - das war die unvergesslich schöne, an Erinnerungen reiche Jugendzeit eines Mädchens: das Leben einer gräflichen Familie in einem höchst ungräflichen Forsthaus in der märkischen Heide.

Ilse Gräfin von Bredow, Chronistin des Alltags, liebenswerte Erzählerin kleiner und großer Geschichten», feiert in diesem Buch mit uns Weihnachten, das Fest der Liebe, mit der es, wie sie mit bissig-liebenswürdiger Feder beweist, oft nicht so weit her ist.

***Das kleinste Buch über die größte Stadt Deutschlands***Was gehört alles in Hoppelpoppel?

Der erfolgreiche Autor Karl Heinz Götze kehrt mit seinem neuen Buch »Was aus meiner Heimat wurde, als ich lange weg war: Eine Rückkehr nach Deutschland« in seinen Heimatort in der nordhessischen Provinz zurück.

Der schwedische Journalist Richard Swartz, bekannt durch sein Buch ›Room Service.

Im Sommer flirrte das Licht durch die Bäume und Büsche, wurde der See zum Mückenparadies, duftete es nach Himbeerkompott, ließ der Bernhardiner im Schatten des Kastanienbaums die Zunge hängen.

Von New Orleans bis ins 21.

Dieses E-Book enthält komplexe Grafiken und Tabellen, welche nur auf E-Readern gut lesbar sind, auf denen sich Bilder vergrössern lassen.

This book offers an on-the-ground view of colonial Calcutta''s neighbourhoods, where kinship-like ties shaped urban space and resisted city-making efforts of the state.

Californias Prodigal Sons: Hiram Johnson and the Progressives, 1911-1917 provides an in-depth examination of the transformative Progressive Era in California under the leadership of Governor Hiram W.

Across the Blue Ridge Mountains stretches a world both charming and complicated.

At Gettysburg, PA, during three days of July 1863, 160,000 men fought one of the most fierce and storied battles of the US Civil War.

New paperback edition with an introduction by Robert B.

New paperback edition with an introduction by Robert B.

Lancaster, the county town of Lancashire, achieved city status in 1937.

The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual.

Here is an entertaining collection of John Muirs most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing.

The history of Macclesfield goes back to a Saxon settlement once held by Edwin, Earl of Mercia.

The hilariously compelling memoir that was hailed as an instant classic.

Don't miss the newest book from The Repair Shop, coming September 2025'Heartwarming, magical and uplifting'In today's throwaway culture, there's a counter movement growing that urges us to 'make do and mend'.

Taking the reader on a journey from the dying embers of Edwardian England, through the trauma of two world wars, the hedonism of London in the 1980s and 'Cool Britannia' in the 1990s right up to the present day, One Hundred Summers is a portrait of a century as it was experienced by one extraordinary family.

An alternative view of the North West of England that delves into its stranger past.

100 Symbols That Changed The World looks at the genesis and adoption of the world's most recognizable symbols.

Happy Vegan Comfort Food is the exact book that Karoline Jonsson would have wanted when she first became a vegan.

A history of beloved cricket grounds from around the world.

Forty miles out into the Atlantic from the western isles of Scotland lies the archipelago of St Kilda.

Forty miles out into the Atlantic from the western isles of Scotland lies the archipelago of St Kilda.

"e;Examining regional accents and our attitudes to them are a way of peering into Britain's soul.

We all love stories don't we, especially true ones.

Edith Morley (1875-1964) was a scholar and the main 20th century editor of the works of Henry Crabb Robinson.

This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews.

When the first edition of this book appeared in 2005 it was quickly recognised as an essential work of reference for family historians researching Ulster ancestors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Liverpool in its nineteenth- and twentieth-century heyday was a city unlike any other.

By the late nineteenth century, Belfast had developed into one of the great industrial cities in the Empire.

This is the fourth volume for County Antrim in our Gravestone Inscription Series and our thirty-first overall.

The close ties between the people and the land in Ulster has only within the last two generations, been replaced by a more urban 'modern' lifestyle.

In the eighteenth century, County Armagh was famously referred to as 'a very independent county' given the distinctive nature of politics and electioneering in parliamentary elections.

This book paints an intimate picture of Comber, County Down, home town of Thomas Andrews Junior, Shipbuilder, during the thirty-nine years of his short but hugely influential life(1873 1912).

Belmore: The Lowry-Corry Families of Castle Coole, 1646-1913 tells the fascinating story of two families who left Dumfries in the mid 17th century to settle in Fermanagh and Tyrone.

In this fully revised and updated third edition of The Cornish Overseas (2020), Philip Payton draws upon almost two decades of additional research undertaken by historians the world over since the first paperback version of this book was published in 2005.

In this fully revised and updated third edition of The Cornish Overseas (2020), Philip Payton draws upon almost two decades of additional research undertaken by historians the world over since the first paperback version of this book was published in 2005.

Anglo-Saxon Mercia was a great power in its day, although many aspects of it have been shrouded in myth and mystery.