Bring the past back to life

www.greatbritishbygonedays.co.uk is the place to visit if your searching for the perfect gift for Parents or Grand Parents. Using a range of Victorian Photographs, Original Issue Newspapers and Archive Footage. Great British Bygone Days bring the past back to life, showing in great detail how life once was in Great Britain.  You can choose unique gifts relating to either a place or a particular date (ie someones Birthdate) to find the perfect birthday gift.

World War I Centenary Edition - Newspaper Book

This special centenary edition provides you with the chance to relive the events of war, not only through newspaper articles like our standard edition - but also through the medium of photography, with 32 beautiful, rarely seen, black and white photographs. The book is bound with a luxury black leather cover.

Read about World War I through newspaper articles written while events were unfolding at the time, and not through the perspective of time. This World War I book has been created using scans of the original newspapers published at the time. It's a fascinating insight on the major events during the war as it was fought in Europe and across the world.

Each page is packed with articles that document the movements of World War I, including major events such as the Battles of Somme and Ypres, the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, the comings and goings of influential figures such as Lord Kitchener and Sir Douglas Haig, whilst documenting the action in Anzac, Czernowitz and Zeebrugge.

This newspaper book covers action on land, sky and sea including the sinking of cruisers Mainz, Blucher, Queen Mary and Black Prince, war amid the sand dunes of South-West Africa and Zeppelin airship attacks over London.

The book opens with a front page montage surrounding your own personalised certificate containing the recipient’s Name up to 22 characters and a Message up to five lines of 30 characters. It can be further personalised by gold embossing the recipient’s Name on the front cover.

This Is Your Life Newspaper Book

A wonderful way to commemorate a special Date, with up to 10 quality reproductions of a national newspaper from significant Dates in the recipient’s life - beautifully bound in this individually made hardback book.

You could celebrate a birthday or other major commemorative event with a newspaper from every decade of someone’s life, or key dates in someone’s life, such as their birth, 18th, Graduation, Wedding, Retirement etc. Choose from between 3 to 10 national newspapers.

England's International Football team over the last century

The highs, and the hopes of over a century of England International Football, captured in a personalised leatherette book.

Starting with coverage of England’s 1-0 win over Scotland in 1905, this book charts a glorious history of great games and titles through the decades of the 20th and 21st century.

Relive the early games against all the home international sides and the tension and excitement of the pre-war matches in the 1930s against Germany, Italy, Austria and even a ‘Rest of Europe’ side where England triumphed 3-0 in 1938.

Coverage continues after the war including England’s entry into the World Cup in Switzerland in 1954 and all the main stories from the World Cup since, including of course 1966. All the main international tournaments and games are covered right up to the recent past including the classic encounters such as England’s 5-1 thrashing over Germany in Munich in 2001.

World Cup Football History Book

Relive over half a century of World Cup tournaments, from the World Cup in 1958 in Sweden to the 2010 World Cup hosted by South Africa, through the newspaper coverage of the time.

Read about the excitement of the World Cup tournaments, the victorious teams, and individual moments of glory, all through newspaper coverage written by reporters attending the World Cup tournaments at the time.

Personalise this World Cup Book by featuring the recipient’s Name and a Message on the certificate on the title page. The recipient’s Name can also be gold embossed on the front cover.

A pictorial book with iconic newspaper photographs from every year of your life

If you know someone who's celebrating an important milestone - be it a birthday, anniversary or retirement - this fantastic Your Life in Pictures Book will make a truly meaningful gift.

Full of iconic photographs from the Daily Mirror and personalised with their Name and a Message, this commemorative book will serve as a special keepsake for your loved one. Presented in a stylish blue silk-effect cover with gold embossing, this informative collection of historic photographs from throughout a lifetime is an ideal gift for those who love to look back and reminisce about times gone by.

The opening page of the book displays the front page headline from their Date of Birth or Wedding Day. The rest of this beautifully bound book is full of photographs depicting news from each year of their life.

Choose Your Year Newspaper Books

A beautifully bound hardback book that holds a complete recreation of a national newspaper, from any date of your choice, together with other major newspaper reports from that year.

These books make a wonderful commemorative gift for a key date or milestone event. An ideal gift to celebrate a 40th, 50th or 60th Birthday, and perfect for a Silver, Ruby or Golden wedding Anniversary or even for a retirement.

Rekindle fond memories from a special occasion in the past or relive the news that happened on your day. An ideal glimpse of how the world was, as reported in the press at the time, from the headlines to the advertisements in what seems today a very different time.

Arsenal Vs Spurs or Spurs Vs Arsenal?

Great British Bygone Days offer a range of Sports books made up of  news reports, written by reporters present at the time, and capture some of the greatest moments in the history of Sport over the last century.

Each hardback Book is elegantly bound and reproduced to full ‘tabloid’ size, 38 x 31cm. The first page can be personalised and a message to the recipient can be added. The range includes Rugby, Golf, Horse Racing, Cricket, Boxing, Tennis Formula 1 and of course Football.

There are over 50 English Football Clubs to choose from as well as extra titles such as the Arsenal Vs Spurs North London Derby Book.

It focuses the history of the Arsenal - Spurs derby, told from the Gunner's point of view. includes a brilliant selection of Arsenal’s finest victories over Tottenham, kicking off in 1911 and updated to include the 2012/2013 season. Packed with page after page of  Gunners victories, this truly is the perfect gift for Arsenal Fans.

There is also the Spurs Vs Arsenal book,  both pages featuring newspaper articles on Tottenham's victories over Arsenal.

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