Local History

**Pointing persistently to heaven: A guide to UK cathedrals** Rich, rolling countryside and historic towns, scenic coasts and picture-perfect land...

Smoke rises in the City of Three Spires, the smouldering remnant of the Nazi hate. Coventry and England will remember and repay'. From August 1940...

Many writers have written about the delights of the former kingdom of the South Saxons, its Downs, villages, countryside, people and their ways but...

Norfolk Coast in the Great War focuses on the trials and joys, the achievements and disappointments, the humour and the sadness of every-day life i...

The major topics affecting the town during those years are recorded. Among them are the struggle to establish a bypass in the 1980s despite the ob...

Few novelists have written so intimately about a city in the way that Charles Dickens wrote about London. A near photographic memory made his conta...

Yorkshire is well known for its miners, pudding and cricket, but Yorkshire: A Very Peculiar History scrapes beyond the surface and past the cliches...