Author: Norman Jacobs

From an inconspicuous beginning in 1928, Eastbourne Speedway is one of the most popular and well-supported speedway tracks in the country which pro...

Clacton-on-Sea's motto Lux, Salubritas, Felicitas (Light, Health and Happiness), sums up the main reason for the town's existence. Born in 1871, th...

A history of speedway in East Anglia

Speedway first saw the light of day in Great Britain on 19 February 1928 at High Beech. Since then, speedway has spread throughout the country, but...

In 1926 two men, Fred Mockford and Cecil Smith, operating as London Motor Sports Ltd, introduced speedway racing to Crystal Palace. Path racing was...

The Wembley Lions enjoyed early success, and then became even stronger after the Second World War to win seven out of eight league titles between 1...

One of the true greats of English football, Vivian Woodward led England to victory in both the 1908 and 1912 Olympic Games. An amateur throughout h...

The post-war era was British speedway's golden age. Ten million spectators passed through the turnstiles of a record number of tracks at the sport'...

In this lively and yet scholarly book, creative artists, people who direct channels of communications, and social scientists present their numerou...

Norman Jacobs worked at the British Museum for thirty-seven years, during the period of its greatest change. He was intimately involved in a number...

Though the nearby village of Great Clacton is an ancient Saxon settlement, Clacton-on-Sea is a comparatively new town, born in 1871. Paradoxically,...

Frinton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze have been bound up with one another for many years, together with the associated villages of Great Holland, K...

Clacton-on-Sea is a comparatively new town, founded as recently as 1871. It takes its name from the ancient and peaceful village of Great Clacton, ...

In this lively and yet scholarly book, creative artists, people who direct channels of communications, and social scientists present their numerou...

In this revealing memoir of childhood, the author shows not only what affected his family, but also reveals a large slice of social history concern...

Tom Farndon, a shy young man from Coventry, set out on the road to speedway stardom in 1929. Within five years he had reached celebrity status matc...

The Blitz had made many families in the East End of London homeless. One solution was to erect prefabs on fields and open spaces to give temporary ...