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	The Register of John Kirkby, Bishop of Carlisle 1332-1352 R.L. Storey (ed) £30.00 Published by : Canterbury and York Published date : 1995 Format : Hardback. Click here to read the reviews Please allow 10 days for delivery

	The Reivers Alistair Moffat £16.99 From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. Published by : Birlinn Published date : June 2007 Format : 165mm x 240mm hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Reivers - The Story of the Border Reivers Alistair Moffat £9.99 Only one period in history is immediately, indelibly and uniquely linked to the whole area of the Scottish and English Border country, and that is the time of the Reivers. Published by : Birlinn Published date : March 2008 Format : 130mm x 198mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Reivers DVD Fiona Armtrong & Alistair Moffat £14.99 From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. Published by : Northern Heritage Published date : February 2008 Format : PAL DVD 135mm x 190mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Romans in Lunesdale David Shotter; Andrew White £6.50 An attmept to bring together the results of new research to present a broadly based view of the Lune Valley in Roman times. Published by : University of Lancaster Published date : 1995 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Secret Valley: The Real Romance of Unconquered Lakeland Nicholas Size £8.00 The Secret Vally tells the story of how the people of Lakeland held out for half a century against the Norman conquerors. The headquarters of the resistance were in a hidden location, the upper part of the valley which contains Crummock Water and Buttermere. The historical facts concerning Lakeland in the Norman period are scant, and Size has therefore written his book in the form of a historical novel. Published by : Llanerch Published date : 1996 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Smuggling Coast John A. Thomson £6.25 This is a story of the Customs and Excise services and of the smugglers who have tried to outwit them over the years. Published by : T.C. Farries & Co Ltd Published date : 1989 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Solitude of Mountains Stephen Hebron Conal Shields & TimothyWilcox £22.50 This beautifully produced book is the first full treatment of John Constable's tour of the Lake District in September and October 1806. Published by : Wordsworth Trust Published date : 2006 Format : 210 x 284mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Solway Coast: Powfoot to Caulkerbush David Carroll £7.50 A compact book detailing the area with photographs and short captions. Published by : Stenlake Published date : 2002 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Stanegate Frank Graham £1.50 An historical survey of Corbridge, Vindolanda and Carvoran in the days of the Romans. Published by : Frank Graham Published date : 1981 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers George MacDonald Fraser £12.99 The classic history of the Border Reivers told by Carlisle born George Macdonald Fraser Published by : HarperCollins Published date : 1995 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Stone Circles of Cumbria John Waterhouse £25.00 Megaliths hold a powerful fascination. Among the hills of the English Lake District are many prehistoric, megalithic monuments. Every year thousands of people visit the great stone circles of Castlerigg, but fewer manage to see the much larger circle of Long Meg and her Daughters, while very few indeed are aware that there are over fifty stone circles, some very difficult to find, in and around the Cumbrian fells. Published by : Phillimore Published date : 2004 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Story of the Lakeland Dales Robert Gambles £15.99 A detailed and informative book for the curious traveller and interested resident alike, with facts on human settlement, pre-historic stone circles, rivers famous for their pearls, murder in Miterdale and much more. A fascinating guide to the area. Published by : Phillimore Published date : 1997 Format : Large hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The things they put in the papers John Hurst £7.95 This book is a history and celebration of the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald. The history of this ever surviving newspaper is fondly recalled by the author, and the changes over the years are considered in depth. Published by : Cumberland and Westmorland Herald Published date : 2003 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Tyne David Bean £14.95 David Bean tells the story of the Tyne, with a passion and wit born of 50 years experience as a journalist on the banks of this great river. A fascinating history is woven into the fabric of a beautiful land and looks to the future with optimism. Published by : TUPS Books Published date : 2003 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Wall - Rome's Greatest Frontier Alistair Moffat £16.99 Hadrian's Wall is the largest single Roman monument in the world and the most impressive Roman legacy north of the Alps. Published by : Birlinn Published date : May 2008 Format : 234mm 156mm hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Websters of Kendal: A North-Western Architectural Dynasty Angus Taylor; Janet Martin (ed) £45.00 Published by : CWAAS Published date : 2004 Format : Large hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Wensleydale Branch: A new History Stanley C. Jenkins £12.95 Running for almost 40 miles across the former North Riding of Yorkshire, the Wensleydale line was one of the longest secondary routes on the North Eastern Railway system. Published by : The Oakwood Press Published date : 1993 - New edition 2002 Format : 150 x 210; paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Westmorland Protestation Returns 1641/2 M.A. Faraday (ed) £4.00 Published by : CWAAS Published date : 1971 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Windermere Ferry: History, Boats, Ferrymen and Passengers Dick White £9.50 There has been a ferry across Windermere for as long as people can remember. The first documented permission of carriage of goods dates from the 13th century. The ferry developed over the years, and the author himself used it daily. Published by : Helm Press Published date : 2002 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Thirlmere Mines and The Drowning of The Valley Ian Tyler £17.99 A history of the mines of Thirlmere and the Manchester water scheme at the turn of the century. A Lakeland Book of the Year category winner in 2000. Published by : Blue Rock Publications Published date : 1999 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Thomas Denton: A Perambulation of Cumberland 1687-8 Angus Winchester; Mary Wane (eds) £50.00 This is the most detailed surviving description of Cumberland in the 17th century. It includes contemporary detail for almost every parish and township in the county, concerning land tenure, estate valuations, population estimates, descriptions of Published by : Boydell Press Published date : 2003 Format : Hardback. Click here to read the reviews Please allow 10 days for delivery

	Treating Strictly Prohibited £9.99 The story of Carlisle's unique nationalised pubs and breweries - an emergency response to war-time drinking that lasted 55 years. Published by : Pennine Productions LLP Published date : 2006 Format : Compact Disc Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Turner in the North David Hill £16.95 A collection of photographs of the many sites which the artist J.M.W. Turner sketched in his tour of England 200 years ago. Published by : Yale University Press Published date : 1996 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Please allow 10 days for delivery

	Two Cumbrian Quakers H.E. Winter £1.50 A fascinating booklet of an unusual subject. With chapters on the lives and works of Thomas Wilkinson and Thomas Story, an overview of the beginnings of Quakerism as a movement, and a list of Friends Meeting Houses in Cumberland. Published by : H.E. Winter Published date : 1993 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity: