Local History

A history of Great Yarmouth.

Robert Woodhouse explores the remarkable and curious sights to be found in West Yorkshire, spanning centuries of history from Roman times right up ...

A history of Neath

Presents a pictorial history of Shirebrook through photographs and images.

A history of the areas pubs and beerhouses.

Featuring a detailed history of the city from the earliest times and a selection of images that show the city at its best, this book provides infor...

A collection of images and captions.

Ghost enthusiasts and pet lovers can combine their passion in this unique publication which will make a most absorbing read for animal lovers and t...

Tales from East Ridings.

History passed in review along the highways of Texas in the century 1761–1860. This was the century of exploration and settlement for the big new ...

Before the Second World War, Petersfield was a small Hampshire market town of around four thousand inhabitants. During the 1950s, '60s and '70s, ho...

Between 1801 and 1851, more than 10,000 people moved to the small fishing village of Torquay. This fascinating book, containing more than 200 photo...

Includes more than 200 archive photographs of local people at work and at leisure, playing sports and attending school, at peace and at war, at wed...

Wakefield was originally a settlement on the River Calder in West Yorkshire, first Anglo-Saxon, then Viking controlled. After the Norman Conquest, ...

During the Second World War, East Kent was at the forefront of the defence of the United Kingdom. In 1940 the ports of Dover, Ramsgate, Folkestone ...

California is an infamously tough place to be poor: home to about half of the entire nation’s homeless population, burdened by staggering home pric...

A history of Black Country aviation.

Sally Tonge, well-known Shropshire storyteller, here retells some of the county's best ghost stories in her own inimitable style. From the "Phantom...

This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Eng...

A history of Wakefield

A history of Beighton

This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Eng...

A history of Marlborough.

Spooky stories from Tooting, Battersea, Putney and Balham.

The inter-war period saw the annual holiday become part of the lives of large numbers of people. This book explores the facets of seaside holiday -...

In 2016 the University of Nebraska Press celebrates its 75th anniversary. Proudly rooted in the Great Plains, the Press has established itself as t...

Friday nights were bath nights. Immediately after tea we were given a good scrub with the brushes the girls used on the floor. No fancy smelling so...

Presents a pictorial history of Hertford through a series of old photographs and images. This work is complete with historical captions.

A pictorial history of Ottery St Mary through a series of old and rare photographs and images, this book is complete with historical captions.

Including historical captions, this book offers a pictorial history of Nailsworth and Minchinhampton using a series of old and rare photographs and...

This fascinating compilation of over 220 pictures of bygone Folkestone has been drawn entirely from the author's own extensive collection. It encom...

London: City of the Dead is a groundbreaking account of London's dealing with death, covering the afterlife, execution, bodysnatching, murder, fata...

Engineer and inventor Richard Trevithick, chemist Sir Humphrey Davy, artist John Opie, historian A.L. Rowse, poet Charles Causley, opera singer Ben...

The author captures the intrigue and danger of the royal court during the time of Mary, Queen of Scots, through the eyes of a young woman, Marie He...

Upon every ocean and sea, pirates have been ready to plunder, to rob and to murder for profit. England has always been a nation of mariners, and th...

Illustrated with 200 archive photographs, postcards and other printed ephemera, many previously unpublished, Highgate guides the reader on a circul...

The Great Eastern Railway rose phoenix-like from the ashes of bankruptcy to become one of the greatest of all passenger-carrying lines. Its empire ...

A history of Clay Cross.

Sourced from family albums and council archives, this fascinating collection of over 200 photographs offers an intriguing insight into the changing...

Journey through the darker side of Cardiff and the surrounding valleys, an area steeped in ancient history and ghostly goings-on. Because of its ri...

Presents a pictorial history of Irlam and Cadishead through a series of photographs and images. This title also includes historical captions.

A historical and topographical account of one of the most interesting spots in the metropolis. This work charts the history of the area, world-famo...

The area round Pendle Hill (Burnley, Nelson, Colne and over to Skipton) has long been associated with witches and ghostly goings on. This is a coll...

The area of Sale and Sale Moor, which in the early nineteenth century comprised mainly farmland and small villages, is today a heavily populated pa...