Local History

Central Swindon is the retail core of the modern town and its residential environs. It began in the 1840s, when the model village for railway worke...

Chronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society On a cold March day in 1893, ...

This remarkable history of a beloved Upper West Side church is in many respects a microcosm of the history of the Catholic Church in New York City....

Remembered in name but underappreciated in legacy, Forrest Phog Allen arguably influenced the game of basketball more than anyone else.  In the fir...

Silver Award Winner, 2016 Nautilus Book Award in Young Adult (YA) Non-FictionMoving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements o...

Nestled on the South Devon coast, the neighbouring settlements of Seaton and Axmouth have an enviable geographical setting and a special community ...

Taking you through the year day by day, The London Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different p...

Edinburgh is one of the most beautiful cities in the world with one of the darkest histories on record. Sweeping through the centuries in a blood-...

Taking you through the year day by day, The Gloucester Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing or important events or facts from different...

Glasgow has one of the bloodiest and most tumultuous histories on record, riddled with plagues and pirate attacks, religious divides and reconcilia...

This exciting book sheds new light on the Grail stories and the arrival of Christianity to Somerset. It illustrates important links between Glaston...

In 1957 Horace Stoneham took his Giants of New York baseball team and headed west, starting a gold rush with bats and balls rather than pans and mi...

The manor was for centuries the main unit of local government and virtually the only source of written local records. Once the local or family hist...

In the Victorian era, sensational ghost stories were headline news. Spine-chilling reports of two-headed phantoms, murdered knights and spectral lo...

Women are not persons.' That was the ruling of the Court of Appeal when Gwynneth Bebb challenged the Law Society to allow her to take exams and bec...