Local History

The Clearances are well known as one of the darkest periods of Highland history. Over a hundred-year period somewhere in the region of 150,000 peop...

Twisting in Air chronicles the gritty and glittery era when an extraordinary group of horses made Western movies come alive and explores how one of...

Leslie Patten had seen grizzly bears, wolves, coyotes, deer, elk, and many other species in her years living next to Yellowstone National Park. Yet...

The 1830 murder of wealthy slaver Joseph White shook all of Salem, Massachusetts. Soon the crime drew national attention when it was discovered tha...

From one of the earliest mentions of its name in the sixth century to the Covid lockdowns of the twenty-first, this is a magnificent portrait of on...

The town of Halifax is full of magnificent buildings designed by famous architects such as Sir Charles Barry, John Carr, Sir George Gilbert Scott a...

In less than a century, Middlesbrough developed from a small farmstead into an industrial metropolis of 90,000 inhabitants. The genesis of this ext...

Hertfordshire is full of stories. The countys proximity to London attracts the great, the good and those less so: Hertfordshire was once home to sa...

The definitive history of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, which fostered some of the most iconic musicians in American history--an...

From prehistory to the present day, the story of Edinburgh is packed with incident and drama. As Scotlands capital since 1437, the city has witness...

In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt planned a tour of the mid-West and Western states. It was dubbed the Great Loop Tour, being careful not to call it a ca...