The Britain you grew up in is slipping out of living memory.

The corner shop, the three-channel evening, the way a Sunday felt. We've been writing it down — three books to enjoy it, remember it, and pass it on.

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Do you remember?

The test card before breakfast.
Half-day closing on a Wednesday.
Bottles on the step, gone by eight.
Playing out till the streetlights came on.
Woolworths at Christmas.
Your nan's front room, kept for best.

If any of that took you back, these books were written for you.

Three books. One small shelf of vanishing Britain.

Each one is written warmly and plainly, priced like a paperback, and sent to you the minute you order.

Volume One

The Old-Fashioned Kitchen

Feed yourself the old way

Inside the book

The kitchen knowledge our grandparents took for granted
Growing real food in any space, however small
Cooking cheap cuts properly, so nothing is wasted
The proper puddings that made Sunday feel like Sunday

£4.99 Get Volume One

Volume Two

The Britain We Lost

A walk back through the Britain that slipped away

Inside the book

Woolworths, and the high street names that went with it
The corner shop, and why it mattered more than it knew
Three channels, the test card, and television worth waiting for
Sunday rhythms, and the trades that quietly disappeared

£7.99 Get Volume Two

Best value

The Complete Set — all three volumes

Volumes One and Two, together with the volume you can't buy on its own.

Volume Three: Uncover Your Own Lost Britain — a plain guide to tracing your own family and your own town, with The Record of My Britain: fill-in keepsake pages for the memories only you hold. Exclusive to the complete set.

£14.99 Just £2 more than Volumes One and Two on their own. Get the Complete Set

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“The records will keep.
Your people may not.”

The official histories are safe in the archives. The small things — how your street sounded, what your mum cooked, which shop had the broken step — live only in the people who remember them. These books keep a little of it where your family can find it.

Get the Complete Set — £14.99

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What can I read them on?

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Is there a printed copy?

These are digital books only — that's what keeps the prices low and the delivery instant.

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