Behind the Plaster: The Strange Things Hidden Inside Britain’s Old Buildings (Hidden Histories Book 1)

Behind the Plaster: The Strange Things Hidden Inside Britain’s Old Buildings (Hidden Histories Book 1)

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Behind the Plaster: The Strange Things Hidden Inside Britain’s Old Buildings (Hidden Histories Book 1)
  • Behind the Plaster: The Strange Things Hidden Inside Britain’s Old Buildings (Hidden Histories Book 1)
  • Behind the Plaster: The Strange Things Hidden Inside Britain’s Old Buildings (Hidden Histories Book 1)
Behind the Plaster: The Strange Things Hidden Inside Britain’s Old Buildings (Hidden Histories Book 1)

Behind the Plaster: The Strange Things Hidden Inside Britain’s Old Buildings (Hidden Histories Book 1)

$7.00 USD
  • A cracked wall reveals a forgotten doorway. A chimney yields up a child’s shoe. A sealed bottle filled with pins waits beneath a threshold.
Britain’s historic buildings contain a second history behind their visible rooms. Concealed within walls, floors, fireplaces and roof spaces are the objects people protected, feared, forgot or could not bear to discard.
In Behind the Plaster, Robin Wickens explores fifty strange discoveries, including witch bottles, hidden clothing, animal remains, private letters, children’s possessions, servant bells and keys to locks that no longer exist.
Some objects may have guarded households against witchcraft or misfortune. Others preserved grief, affection, money or evidence of lives overlooked by official records.
Blending British folklore, social history, building archaeology and dry humour, this atmospheric book examines what the evidence can genuinely reveal without turning every object into a curse or every closed room into a crime scene.
Every old wall keeps a secret.

Product Information

ASIN B0HGNSWY3Y
Publisher Rob's Books
Accessibility Learn more
Publication date 26 Aug. 2026
Edition 1st
Language English
File size 25.8 MB
Screen Reader Supported
Enhanced typesetting Enabled
X-Ray Not Enabled
Word Wise Enabled
Print length 1222 pages
Page Flip Enabled
Book 1 of 1 Hidden Histories
Reading age 15 - 17 years

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