Author: Penny Legg

For as long as there have been armed forces there have been camp followers the families who move with the military to stay with their men. This bo...

From Abbotts Ann and the Maidens Garlands to the Tichborne Dole and St Swithuns forty days of rain, Folklore of Hampshire looks at the county as ne...

This collection of personal memories, from the people who have lived and worked in Southampton over the past seventy years, offers a fascinating in...

In 1952, Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne and became the Sovereign Head of the Armed Forces. In the sixty years of her reign so far, there ha...

Explore the darkest secrets of Southamptons past with this collection of stories telling of the inexplicable occurrences and ghostly apparitions th...

Winchester offers a veritable feast of history, much of it unrecognised by twenty-first century visitors. This history of the Saxon capital of Wess...

The people of Southampton have had a lot to put up with over the centuries. If the Danes of French weren't attacking it, pirates from further along...

The 1950s was a time of regeneration and change for Southampton. For children growing up during this decade, life was changing fast. They still mad...