Roger Guttridge's Books

This fascinating selection of photographs shows how Shaftesbury has changed and developed over the last century.

A fabulous collection of ghostly hauntings in Dorset.

This fascinating set of photographs shows how Wimborne Minster has changed and developed over the last century.

In 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico. Jonathan Robbins, a reputed American sailor who had been impressed into service, made his way to American shores. President John Adams bowed to Britain’s request for his extradition. Convicted of murder and piracy by a court-martial in Jamaica, Robbins was hanged. Adams’s catastrophic miscalculation ignited a political firestorm, only to be fanned by Robbins’s failure to receive his constitutional rights of due process and trial by jury by an American court. American Sanctuary brilliantly lays out in riveting detail the story of how the Robbins affair, amid the turbulent presidential campaign of 1800, inflamed the new nation and set in motion a constitutional crisis, resulting in Adams’s defeat and Thomas Jefferson’s election as the third president of the United States. Robbins’s martyrdom led directly to the country’s historic decision to grant political asylum to foreign refugees—a major achievement in fulfilling the promise of American independence.

This fascinating set of photographs shows how Wimborne Minster has changed and developed over the last century.

This fascinating selection of photographs shows how Shaftesbury has changed and developed over the last century.

Approximately 75 detailed period photographs from the Francis Frith archive with extended captions and full introduction. Suitable for tourists, local historians and general readers. Includes a voucher for a free mounted print of any photograph shown in the book.

Book's by Roger Guttridge

Shaftesbury Through Time

Shaftesbury Through Time

Paranormal Dorset

Paranormal Dorset

Wimborne Minster Through Time

Wimborne Minster Through Time

American Sanctuary

American Sanctuary

Wimborne Minster Through Time

Wimborne Minster Through Time

Shaftesbury Through Time

Shaftesbury Through Time

Boscombe and Southbourne

Boscombe and Southbourne

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