The Curious Britain Library seal: an oak tree within the words Curious Britain, The Library

The Curious Britain Library

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

Three books to enjoy the old Britain, remember it, and keep the part that is yours alone.

Volume One, The Old-Fashioned Kitchen — book cover

Volume One

The Old-Fashioned Kitchen

Feed yourself the old way

The everyday kitchen competence our grandparents took for granted — growing real food in any space, cooking cheap cuts and proper puddings, and wasting not a scrap. Brought up to date for the way we live now.

Volume Two, The Britain We Lost — book cover

Volume Two

The Britain We Lost

A walk back through the Britain that slipped away

The vanished high streets and front rooms, the lidos and branch lines, the shared places and Sunday rhythms — what went, why it went, and why it is worth remembering. Honest, warm, and full of things you had forgotten you remembered.

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The Curious Britain Library — the complete collection, all three volumes

All Three Volumes

The Complete Library

Enjoy it. Remember it. Keep it.

  • Volume One — The Old-Fashioned Kitchen
  • Volume Two — The Britain We Lost
  • Volume Three — Uncover Your Own Lost Britain, found nowhere else

Volume Three is the personal one — a plain guide to tracing your own family and your own town, with The Record of My Britain, fill-in keepsake pages to complete by hand and hand down. It comes only with the complete set.

£14.99 all three books — only £2 more than the first two
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One small library of vanishing Britain

The corner shop and the high street. The milk on the step and the test card in the small hours. The work that built whole towns, and the family names behind your own. Most of it is passing now out of living memory — and the people who can still say I was there are the last who will ever be able to.

These three books are made to do something about that: to enjoy the old ways, to remember the shared Britain we have let slip, and to find and keep the lost Britain that belongs to you and no one else.

Enjoy it. Remember it. Keep it.

The records will keep. Your people may not.

Begin with the book that finds and keeps the Britain that is yours alone — and own the whole library while you are there.

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Keep it.