Local History

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...

Neuk is the Scots word for nook or corner, and the delightful East Neuk, with its string of picturesque fishing and farming villages, is one of the...

In 1837 Representative Joseph J. Anthony stabs the speaker of the house to death during a debate about wolf pelts. In 1899 Hot Springs police shoot...

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland have charmed visitors for centuries, and this collection of intricate illustrations is a celebration of this ...

In this volume, Dave Cope provides an exhaustive list of materials published by, and in relation to, the Communist Party of Great Britain. No attem...

Victoria Square, that green and peaceful oasis in the center of Christchurch, has a special claim to fame: it is the only city square in the world ...

Croydon was for centuries a small but important market town, set in attractive open countryside and separated from London by poor roads, large comm...

Much of Roman Chester has been lost through post-Roman dismantling and `recycling' of building materials, though excavations over recent years have...

'The perfect guide to the hidden history of London's streets.' BBC History MagazineIn Cruickshank's London, Britain's favourite architectural histo...

As you walk around Bradford it is not difficult to spot the rich Victorian architecture, a legacy from the time when Bradford quite literally contr...

Born into the gap between the eras of austerity and boom, David grew up in Merseyside amid an inexorable tide of progress, developing a fascination...

Winner, 2020 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn impassioned call for recognizing and preserving the ecological wonders of ...

Join Jamie, the son of a travelling droll teller, as he journeys across Cornwall, a land steeped in myth and legend. Along the way you will hear my...

The pictures in this book show the changes that have happened in the East End of London since the beginning of the 1960s. A rag-and-bone man rings ...

Vintage London is an unpublished collection of beautiful images of the capital as it was in all its vintage glory. A London with shops and fashions...

The exploiting of stone in Cumbria dates back to the Neolithic period when volcanic rock from the high Lakeland fells was worked to make hand axes....

Secret Rotherham offers a unique insight into this bustling, modern South Yorkshire town through a series of little-known and forgotten stories, fa...