Local History

The Little Book of Stillorgan is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about this vibrant suburb of Dublin. This boo...

Aldeburgh and Southwold are now very much delightful, fashionable coastal towns, set amid Suffolks flat farming country, but in the eighteenth cent...

Witney grew up as the result of deliberate planning on the part of successive Bishops of Winchester, a spacious, wedge-shaped market area being lai...

The latest cookbook by the Culinary Ambassador of the Chesapeake encourages us to cook in a way that is not only healthy for us but also for the Ba...

Struggle and Suffrage in Nottingham is the story of many women across the generations and their struggle for equality. This was not just a struggle...

Once upon a Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire is an ancient county of Roman forts and highwaymen, motorways and urban myth. These are the Buckinghamsh...

Hertfordshire has charmed visitors for centuries, and this collection of intricate illustrations is a celebration of the countys unique appeal. Fea...

Guildfords history dates from Saxon times, and the town has been the residence of kings and many famous men and women, particularly since Henry II ...

This collection of personal memories, from the people who have lived and worked in Southampton over the past seventy years, offers a fascinating in...

Joanna Dawson, a Methodist local preacher, dairy farmer and local historian, combined her religious faith with a delight in the local traditions of...

Nymans forms one of a group of gardens in the Sussex Weald which were created before the First World War and are still beautiful today, their owner...

Curious Buckinghamshire is a guide to over 100 unusual and extraordinary sights from all parts of the county. Featured here are tales of unsolved m...

For more than a thousand years the Afon Conwy the River Conway to the English provided a military gateway into the heart of North Wales, firstly ...

A Grim Almanac of Staffordshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from around the county. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearanc...

This is not a guidebook. This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of DURHAM. Learn about the movers and shakers who shape...

Of all the historical documents charting Worthing's past, few are more important than a wartime diary called 'Hotchpot', compiled with religious de...

The aim of this book is to explain the origins of street names in Cleethorpes. In doing so, it gives an insight into the history and development of...

Following on from the success of the War Dead series in counties Tipperary, Wexford, Wicklow, and Offaly, Tom Burnell now turns his attention to Co...

In the summer of 1822 a bad potato crop and limited employment opportunities created famine conditions in the west and south-west of Ireland. The O...

Tales out of School is a light-hearted and nostalgic look in to life in one of the countrys most important secondary schools. St Columbs College ha...

The years immediately after the Second World War were known as the decade of disappearing Irish the peak period of emigration since the Great Fami...

There was a time when the two most notorious red-light districts not only in Ireland but in all of Europe could be found on the streets of Dublin. ...

West of Ireland; New Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century examines the lives of ordinary people in the west of Ireland and the political organisa...