Local History

The Bristol Avon rises as a number of streams around the Gloucestershire-Wiltshire border in the southern Cotswolds. The crow needs only twenty mil...

This fascinating volume is drawn from the extensive archives of Warrington Museum which was created in 1848 only nine years after the birth of this...

Stroud History Tour offers a unique insight into the history and buildings of a fascinating Cotswold market town. An itinerary has been created whi...

The churches, chapels and meeting houses of Cork are the bedrock of the city. They represent the finest of architecture, house some of our most tre...

On a stormy evening in January 1953, Peggy Morgan kissed her five-year-old son goodnight, blissfully unaware of the impending catastrophe. Before s...

A collection of photographs for the Livingston Development Corporation and associated commentary forms the basis of this lively and colourful histo...

Athlone 19001923 is perhaps the most detailed analysis ever completed of an Irish provincial town during this defining period in the countrys histo...

From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie lang...

A gravestone, a mention in local archives, stories still handed down around Oyster Bay: the outline of a woman begins to emerge and with her the wo...

The Borough of Trafford includes Flixton, Urmston, Davyhulme, Stretford, Old Trafford, Ashton-on-Mersey, Sale, Bowdon, Hale, Hale Barns and Altrinc...

The historic county of Norfolk has more than its fair share of strange tales. From ancient legends, through stories of the supernatural to more mod...

Macclesfield Forest had long been a favourite hunting ground of royalty. But it was Edward III who first appreciated how skilled the town's longbow...

Set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and at the mouth of the River Exe, Exmouth is one of the largest seaside towns in Devon and is regarde...

Originally in Kent, Orpington is now a town in the south-east corner of Greater London. The town grew rapidly in the nineteenth century following t...

Ripon History Tour offers a fascinating insight into the history of this city in Yorkshire. Author Maurice Taylor guides us around its well-known s...

Deal and the adjoining Walmer have long been important towns on the Kent coast. Walmer was the probable landing point for Julius Caesars invasion o...

Hell with the Lid Off looks at the ferocious five-year war waged by Pittsburgh and Oakland for NFL supremacy during the turbulent seventies.The roo...

Located on the north bank of the River Thames opposite Gravesend, with which there has been a ferry link for centuries, Tilbury Landing Stage is a ...

This illustrated history portrays one of Englands finest counties. It provides a nostalgic look at Somersets past and highlights the special charac...

Almost the entire network of the former Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway system closed at the end of February 1959. Some short sections o...

Every year thousands of archaeological artefacts are discovered by the public, mostly through metal detecting but also while digging in the garden ...