Its wasn’t the first book to roll off the local Akeman Press but Andrew Swift and Kirsten Elliott’s ‘Ghost Signs of Bath‘ was an important and unusual addition to local history when it was published […]
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Get out of Bath!
Christmas excesses and New Year resolutions could both lead you to consider a late stocking filler which offers you fourteen different scenic and historic walking routes out of Bath to help you feel both fresher […]
The writings on the wall
Ghost signs – those faded advertisements for long forgotten businesses – found on the walls of old buildings – are among the most potent reminders of a bygone age – and nowhere are they found […]
Pieroni’s Fountain
Readers looking for something local and original as gifts should check out the website of Bath-based publisher Akeman Press. Run by writers and historians Andrew Swift and Kirsten Elliott, the company has two new books […]
Bath on-line database to include First World War dead
A new online resource for family historians has just been launched by Bath and North East Somerset Council’s archive service. The service’s popular ‘Bath Ancestors’ database, which contains over 76,000 names, has been extended to […]
Home Fires: Bath and the First World War
The Museum of Bath at Work is staging an exhibition which will open on Tuesday August 5th 2014 to mark the 100 years from the beginning of the First World War. The exhibition – Home […]
