{"id":12863,"date":"2023-05-12T01:11:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T00:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12863"},"modified":"2023-05-12T01:11:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T00:11:04","slug":"new-local-books-on-archive-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/05\/12\/new-local-books-on-archive-org\/","title":{"rendered":"New local books on Archive.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

New local books on Archive.org…<\/p>\n

Most Splendid of Men : life in a mining community, 1917-25<\/a> (1981). This being Silverdale in Newcastle-under-Lyme.<\/p>\n

Voices of Five Counties : a guide to writers of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire<\/a> (1994). An A-Z survey. Pre-Internet and search, so likely missing a lot.<\/p>\n

Staffordshire and the Black Country<\/a> (1988). A substantial gazetteer, ignoring 1974 boundary changes.<\/p>\n

Butterflies of the West Midlands<\/a> (2016). Being the proper West Midlands, including the counties.<\/p>\n

Letters of Arnold Bennett, Vol. II 1889-1915<\/a> (1968).<\/p>\n

Folk Tales of the British Isles<\/a> (1988). Has “The Clicking Toad” from Darlaston in south Staffordshire, between Walsall and Tipton.<\/p>\n

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The Landscape Trilogy : the autobiography of L.T.C. Rolt, 1910-1974<\/a> (2005). Saviour of the British canal system, especially in the Midlands.<\/p>\n

Staffordshire portrait figures : and allied subjects of the Victorian era : including the definitive catalogue<\/a> (1987).<\/p>\n

The Symphonies of Havergal Brian : Volume Two<\/a> (1978).<\/p>\n

The In Crowd : the story of the northern & rare soul scene, Volume One<\/a> (1999).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New local books on Archive.org… Most Splendid of Men : life in a mining community, 1917-25 (1981). This being Silverdale in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Voices of Five Counties : a guide to writers of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire (1994). An A-Z survey. Pre-Internet and search, so likely missing a lot. Staffordshire and the Black Country […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}