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The Haunted Cotswolds  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255517822969 Amazon Link https://www.amazon.co.uk/Haunted-Cotswolds-Bob-Meredith/dp/1874192839/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= click here for video An illustrated collection Of ghost stories covering the Cotswolds by Bob Meredith.  And as Bob says: There still lingers in those pockets of the mind where shadows are turned into demons and where things go bump in the night, a flutter of the heart when the clock strikes twelve and a yearning for the firelight hearths where children listen to ghost stories on long, cold winter nights".  The ghost story is not just a part of history. It is history! 

Crime and Punishment By Nicholas Reardon ISBN-13 :  9781874192749 Crime and Punishment in and about the Cotswold Hills This fully illustrated colour book shows the reader in Photographs and Sketches old time punishments such as stocks, whipping posts and lock-ups along with stories of murdered Kings and Court Jesters, Highwaymen and War Crimes committed long ago, when the Cotswold hills were not so peaceful. Having lived in the Cotswolds all my life, and with a keen interest in history, I would like to share my love of this area with you by pointing out some of the hidden features to be found in this unique part of the English countryside. Over the years my father, the well-known Cotswold artist Peter Reardon, had drawn a number of little sketches showing stocks, whipping posts and old town lock-ups. These illustrated the historic types of punishment served up to those who broke the law in and around these lovely and now peaceful hills. ...

"Dog Days on ICE Antarctic Exploration in a Golden Age"  ISBN: 9781873877890 written by Peter Noble. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP57deu9Kj8 Dogs were taken from Antarctica, a consequence of an environmental clause in the Antarctic Treaty that required non-native species to be removed. In the case of dogs, specifically because distemper (a disease of dogs) could potentially spread from the dogs to the native seals of Antarctica www.antarcticbookshop.com "Dog Days on Ice" is the personal account of one man's experience of a truly golden era for exploration. Much has been archived about the scientific achievements involved, but Peter Noble concentrates on the human experience of life on the ice in the 1960s. Through his account of a 600 mile dog sledge journey and two of the longest and biggest expeditions ever undertaken by the British Antarctic Survey, he tells of the pleasures and pitfalls, the humour and hardships,...