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      LIBRARIES OF A LIFETIME and why they need to stay open

      Chris Arnot

      The list of closed or closing libraries all over the UK is long. Very long. And it's getting longer still as the seemingly endless squeeze on local

      government spending becomes…

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      Small Island by Little Train: A Narrow-Gauge Adventure

      Chris Arnot

      An exploration of the joys and idiosyncrasies of Britain’s one-off narrow-gauge railway lines. This informative guide to lesser-known and eccentric railways across the country is the perfect alternative railway history…

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      Fields of Dreams: Grounds That Football Forgot But the Fans Never Will

      Chris Arnot

      Sports writer Chris Arnot travels from the southcoast to Wearside, from Cardiff Bay to the Humber Estuary to tease out the tales of 25 grounds that football forgot but the…

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      The Festive Soul of English Cricket: from Tunbridge Wells to Scarborough

      Chris Arnot

      This is a book about English cricket festivals in 2019 and also about the journeys between matches, the characters met and overheard. About sitting in settings that great players have…

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      Decline and Fall to Rise and Shine: Nine months in the rebirth of a dying school in a viral year

      Chris Arnot

      Lordswood Boys’ School had been failing so badly for so long that the Department for Education became concerned enough to call for a major shake-up. It was duly delivered through…

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      Closing Time: Lockdown reflections on a pubscrawling  past

      Chris Arnot

      Chris decided to look back to the past - his past in eccentric ale-houses from Devon to Edinburgh as well as locals he has lived close to in Birmingham, London…

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      Coronation Streets

      Chris Arnot

      In Coronation Streets, England Then and Now, British citizens of a certain age look back on their childhoods in 1953 when a glittering ritual in distant Westminster offered a brief…

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      Larkin About in Coventry: The City where a Great Poet Grew Up

      Chris Arnot

      Larkin About in Coventry goes behind the great poet’s curmudgeonly facade and truffles out the places where he was content and even happy in his youth. It also takes a…

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      Small Island by Little Train: A Narrow-Gauge Adventure

      Chris Arnot,AA Publishing

      An exploration of the joys and idiosyncrasies of Britain’s one-off narrow-gauge railway lines. This informative guide to lesser-known and eccentric railways across the country is the perfect alternative railway history…

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