Local History

Real Pontypridd is the latest addition to the Seren Real Series, from author Daryl Leeworthy.

A piercing, unsentimental (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.   It seems everyone has an opinion about...

In 1918 Lord Leverhulme bought the island of Lewis with ambitious plans to massively expand its fishing industry and increase its population. In 1...

Wallasey expanded massively in the nineteenth century following the construction of the docks, which brought in a wealth of other industries, inclu...

Wiltshires very landscape is steeped in folklore and mythology, with almost every hill, standing stone and barrow having its own stories and legend...

There is evidence of human settlement at Ilkley in prehistoric and Roman times but the town grew rapidly in the nineteenth century when it became w...

Sussex is rich in remains of the prehistoric eras, from the earliest Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) era when stone tools were first developed by anci...

Kent has an impressive collection of castles, over sixty including the scanty ruins and earthwork remains of now vanished ones, as well as the more...

Did You Know? In 1824 a Pendleton tollkeeper set up Britains first true public bus service, thought to be one of the first in the world. Communi...

'Theirs was a pre-urban world in the glow of its last sunset, without a care or doubt, in which it seemed as if nothing could ever come to harm. He...