Author: Stuart Hylton

Terrifying raids, thousands of bombs and countless petrified inhabitants of Britains busiest cities. These are the prevailing images of the Blitz a...

From Victorian manufacturing town, famous for the three Bs beer, bulbs and biscuits to its current status as a major centre for service industrie...

We think of the Stephensons and Brunel as the fathers of the railways, and their Liverpool and Manchester and Great Western Railways as the prototy...

Steam engines and steam railways have a long, fascinating history, with many exciting areas to explore. Whether you are visiting a steam railway, o...

The Little Book of the 1950s is a fast-paced and entertaining account of life in Britain during an extraordinary decade, as we moved from post-war ...

The Little Book of the 1970s is a fast-paced and entertaining account of life in Britain during an extraordinary decade, as we moved from the swing...

A nation's choice of leisure activities can tell you much about its national character, and Britain has seen a revolution in leisure since the war....

A nation''s choice of leisure activities can tell you much about its national character, and Britain has seen a revolution in leisure since the war...

Terrifying raids, thousands of bombs and countless petrified inhabitants of Britains busiest cities. These are the prevailing images of the Blitz a...

Reading has been transformed in the last century or so. It has gone from being a Victorian manufacturing town to a major centre for service industr...

Manchester has a local history that is unlike anywhere else's. Although, as its name suggest, there is evidence beneath its streets of the first mu...

The Little Book of Berkshire is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and events in the county, from its earliest or...

It is hard, from a distance of nearly two centuries, to imagine the impact the coming of the railways must have had at the start of the nineteenth ...

In Reading in the 1950s Stuart Hylton gives a fascinating account of the town and its people during a decade of rapid and memorable change. The sto...

Manchester has a story that is no ordinary local history. Its life has been inextricably entwined with the rise and fall of the nations fortunes an...