Author: Paul Chrystal

One of the UKs largest cities, Leeds is a major commercial, financial and cultural centre in West Yorkshire. Leeds Pubs is like a good pub: accessi...

Huddersfield History Tour offers an insight into the fascinating history of this town in West Yorkshire. Author Paul Chrystal guides us around its ...

Doncaster has always benefited from its location. It stands on the Great North Road, superseded by the A1, the primary route for all traffic from L...

The assumption is that most of what we know about the Romans and their history comes from Roman and Greek historians. While this is true up to a po...

How to be a Roman is a fascinating guide to day-to-day life in ancient Rome. Explore the early Empire through the eyes of a typical Roman family f...

Despite its remote location, surrounded by the high ground of the North York Moors, Whitby has featured significantly in history throughout the yea...

York History Tour is a fascinating insight into the history of this ancient city and shows just how much it has changed during the course of the ni...

Tadcaster History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this north Yorkshire market town, its well-known streets and famous plac...

Ancient Greece was never just one nation: it was a disparate collection of independent city-states, often embroiled in war with each other, with se...

This illustrated history portrays one of Englands finest cities. It provides a nostalgic look at Yorks past and highlights the special character of...

This is the third volume in a unique and exciting series on the modern history of York. With the dawning of the 1970s the city underwent seismic ch...

Even though war, and conflict generally, feature prominently in Greek mythology, comparatively little has been written on the subject. This is surp...

Scarborough has a rich and varied history extending from the Roman signal station and the marauding hordes of Vikings under Tostig Godwinson and Ha...

York is one of Britain's best preserved cities. Through a combination of sheer luck, the efforts of passionate conservationists and the apathy of t...

Leeds s Military Legacy is the first fully illustrated book to give a comprehensive description of the military history of Leeds from Roman, Anglo-...

Hull History Tour is a unique insight into the fascinating history of this famous old fishing port and shows just how much it has changed during th...

Darlington is rightly famous for its involvement in the introduction and subsequent development of the railways in the UK. As such, it carries resp...

Harrogate History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous Yorkshire spa town. This new book guides us through the stre...

Central Leeds History Tour offers an insight into the fascinating history of this Yorkshire city. Author Paul Chrystal guides us around its well-kn...

In these days of ubiquitous, non-stop media and information you would think that there were few secrets anywhere left to reveal: but when it comes ...

The Rowntree family, especially Henry and the younger Joseph Rowntree are, along with the Fry's, Cadbury's, Mars and Terry's, synonymous with the b...

This illustrated history portrays one of Englands finest cities. It provides a nostalgic look at Leeds past and highlights the special character of...

Knaresborough has many secrets, and as you walk down the streets you are walking through history. There are clear reminders of the towns past every...

Redcar, Marske & Saltburn Through Time is a wonderful collection of old and new photographs of this historic area of Yorkshire. The older image...

One way or another the Romans spent quite a lot of time in bed, in between conquering and civilising the known world. The men were intent on demons...

York is first and foremost a Roman city, and an extremely important one at that. This comprehensive, fully illustrated book is a unique and invalua...

Bradford is rightly proud of its industrial heritage. This West Yorkshire city rose to prominence during the nineteenth century as an international...

From what the Ancient Greeks might have talked about in bed to womens health and the intricacies of Greek marriage, Paul Chrystal shines a much-nee...