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Why Britain’s Black Market Boomed After Victory - Robs Books
Why Britain’s Black Market Boomed After Victory
Victory brought Britain peace but not plenty. Discover how post-war rationing, empty shelves and public frustration created a thriving underground trade in meat, cigarettes, petrol, clothing and forged coupons. Read more...
Britain After Midnight: Why Haunted Roads and Inconvenient Ghosts Still Hold Us - Robs Books
Britain After Midnight: Why Haunted Roads and Inconvenient Ghosts Still Hold Us
Britain looks different after midnight. Roads narrow, houses begin to speak, and unexplained lights appear where no path should be. Robin Wickens explores the folklore, testimony and evidence behind twenty... Read more...
What Lies Behind the Plaster? The Strange Things Hidden Inside Britain’s Old Buildings - Robs Books
What Lies Behind the Plaster? The Strange Things Hidden Inside Britain’s Old Buildings
Behind Britain’s plaster, floorboards and chimneys lies a different history. Discover the shoes, witch bottles, hidden rooms, letters and forgotten lives concealed inside old buildings. Read more...
Britain After Midnight: Why Haunted Roads and Inconvenient Ghosts Still Hold Us - Robs Books
Britain After Midnight: Why Haunted Roads and Inconvenient Ghosts Still Hold Us
Britain looks different after midnight. Roads narrow, houses begin to speak, and unexplained lights appear where no path should be. Robin Wickens explores the folklore, testimony and evidence behind twenty... Read more...
Best Folklore Books to Read If You're Tired of Sanitised Myths and Want the Real, Unsettling Stuff - Robs Books
Best Folklore Books to Read If You're Tired of Sanitised Myths and Want the Real, Unsettling Stuff
Forget the polished fairy tales and friendly woodland spirits. These folklore books return to older traditions, where fairies held grudges, roads remembered the dead, and every strange knock after midnight... Read more...
Where to Buy Indie Author Ebooks That Are Actually Worth Your Time (And Why the Mainstream Charts Keep Steering You Wrong) - Robs Books
Where to Buy Indie Author Ebooks That Are Actually Worth Your Time (And Why the Mainstream Charts Keep Steering You Wrong)
Mainstream charts reward visibility, advertising power and familiar names—but they do not always lead you to the most original reads. Discover where to buy worthwhile indie ebooks and how to... Read more...
Quirky British History Books That Prove the Stranger the Story, the More True It Probably Is - Robs Books
Quirky British History Books That Prove the Stranger the Story, the More True It Probably Is
British history is full of events too peculiar for respectable fiction: troublesome animals, ridiculous laws, accidental heroes and officials defending complete nonsense with impressive confidence. These quirky history books prove... Read more...
The Black Market Wore an Apron - Robs Books
The Black Market Wore an Apron
The post-war black market was not confined to sharp-suited spivs, smoky pubs and railway yards. Much of it operated quietly inside Britain’s homes, where women struggled to feed and clothe... Read more...
Why Britain’s Black Market Boomed After Victory - Robs Books
Why Britain’s Black Market Boomed After Victory
Victory brought Britain peace but not plenty. Discover how post-war rationing, empty shelves and public frustration created a thriving underground trade in meat, cigarettes, petrol, clothing and forged coupons. Read more...
Europe Under the Counter - Robs Books
Europe Under the Counter
Europe Under the Counter: Smugglers, Survivors and Shadow Economies in Occupied Europe is the second book in Robin Wickens’s wartime black-market series. Across occupied Europe, rationing, requisitioning and military control... Read more...