This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Llandudno has changed and developed over the last century.

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Conwy has changed and developed over the last century.

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the world's oldest steamship company has changed and developed over the last century. A photographic history of the Steam Packet, from its foundation to the present day.

In the early twentieth century, the new technology of flight changed warfare irrevocably, not only on the battlefield, but also on the home front. As prophesied before 1914, Britain in the First World War was effectively no longer an island, with its cities attacked by Zeppelin airships and Gotha bombers in one of the first strategic bombing campaigns. Drawing on prewar ideas about the fragility of modern industrial civilization, some writers now began to argue that the main strategic risk to Britain was not invasion or blockade, but the possibility of a sudden and intense aerial bombardment of London and other cities, which would cause tremendous destruction and massive casualties. The nation would be shattered in a matter of days or weeks, before it could fully mobilize for war. Defeat, decline, and perhaps even extinction, would follow. This theory of the knock-out blow from the air solidified into a consensus during the 1920s and by the 1930s had largely become an orthodoxy, accepted by pacifists and militarists alike. But the devastation feared in 1938 during the Munich Crisis, when gas masks were distributed and hundreds of thousands fled London, was far in excess of the damage wrought by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz in 1940 and 1941, as terrible as that was. The knock-out blow, then, was a myth. But it was a myth with consequences. For the first time, The Next War in the Air reconstructs the concept of the knock-out blow as it was articulated in the public sphere, the reasons why it came to be so widely accepted by both experts and non-experts, and the way it shaped the responses of the British public to some of the great issues facing them in the 1930s, from pacifism to fascism. Drawing on both archival documents and fictional and non-fictional publications from the period between 1908, when aviation was first perceived as a threat to British security, and 1941, when the Blitz ended, and it became clear that no knock-out blow was coming, The Next War in the Air provides a fascinating insight into the origins and evolution of this important cultural and intellectual phenomenon, Britain's fear of the bomber.

A nostalgic look at Mersey Shipping Through Time

Explore the town of Llandudno in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.

A biography of Beatrice Blore Browne. Born in the industrial town of Middlesbrough to a family of pottery workers, she was the first woman to drive a motor car to the summit of the Great Orme in Llandudno a holiday resort in North Wales. For a woman in the years immediately prior to the First World War this was an unusual feat which challenged some of the stereotypes of women prevalent in that period.

Highly illustrated historical look at the military heritage of Llandudno from Roman times to the present day.

Incorporating many of the changes to the Llandudno, a Welsh seaside town and including many photographs, this work contains war-time features on the U-boat rendezvous at Llandudno, the Wormhout Massacre of the Territorial Army and the Llandudno battalions at Mametz. It looks at town's operatic and theatrical tradition.