Product Description: One of a series of guides on what to see and where to go in Britain, this book focuses on north-west England. The wide range of tourist attractions covered includes major sporting venues, and there are special features on regional television and radio programmes such as "Coronation Street"...read more

Product Description: An illustrated celebration, by the radio broadcaster, of the modern city of Manchester, looking at aspects of the city ranging from its architecture, industrial heritage, and transport system, to theatres and broadcasting centres.

Product Description: The Reformation was and is no single event. This book, pursues it back to the thirteenth century and forwards to the twenty first. Throughout its history the Christian Church has been as well known for its disputes as for its dogmas, but in the centuries which marked the Middle Ages the pace of protest intensified as never before, until the tide of reforms built up which would overwhelm and change forever both the church and the world into which the reformers had been born...read more