| Bicester History Tour Contributor(s): Jenkins, Stanley C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1445655799 ISBN-13: 9781445655796 Publisher: Amberley Publishing OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Historical |
| Series: History Tour |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 4.9" W x 6.5" (0.35 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bicester History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous Oxfordshire town, its well-known streets and famous places, and explains what they meant to local people throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. Readers are invited to follow a timeline of events and watch the changing face of Bicester as the author guides us through its streets. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jenkins, Stanley C.: - Stanley C. Jenkins, who was educated at Witney Grammar School, the University of Lancaster and the University of Leicester, has written over 20 books and some 750 articles on local, transport and regional history. Having worked as an English Language teacher at Oxford Air Training School for several years, he returned to Leicester University to retrain as a museum curator in 1986, and was subsequently employed by English Heritage as the Regional Curator for South Western England. He is Curatorial Advisor to the Witney & District Museum, and is also working as a curator for the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust, which is at present building a military museum at Woodstock.Bicester Local History Society: - Bicester Local History Society was founded in 1986 and is a successor to Bicester Local History Circle, which ran in the town for many years under the leadership of Gwendoline Dannatt. BLHS came together when members of an abandoned adult education class, studying the 1851 census, decided to form an interest group. |
