Local History

The Country Shows of North Yorkshire tells the story of some of the shows held around this region in a set of striking black-and-white images from ...

The city of Liverpool is famous throughout the world. This once small fishing village was transformed into a mighty commercial powerhouse, seen by ...

Wellington Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of one of Englands finest towns. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exc...

Rayleigh is a picturesque market town and civil parish in the District of Rochford in Essex, England, located between Chelmsford and Southend-on-Se...

As an important crossing point of the River Severn, Gloucester has played an important role in history from Roman times to the present day. It was ...

Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, at the lowest bridging point, Newcastle is generally regarded as the capital of the north-eastern reg...

The drinking establishments of Saxon Chester are a mystery to us. The nineteenth-century historian Thomas Hughes wrote, Anglo-Saxons had their eala...

Bicester History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous Oxfordshire town, its well-known streets and famous places, a...

Battersea has grown to be a fashionable and vibrant district of south-west London. Referred to as Patricesy in the Domesday Book, Battersea was his...

Few cities in the UK present a more favourable impression to visitors and residents alike than Exeter, the county town of Devon. Today it is a mode...

For some the River Trent is synonymous with a northern Staffordshire city, for others the hub of the ceramics industry, perhaps the heart of the br...

Llandudno is famed as being the Queen of the Welsh Resorts and is now the largest seaside resort in Wales, lying on a flat isthmus of sand between ...

Knaresborough has many secrets, and as you walk down the streets you are walking through history. There are clear reminders of the towns past every...

The Abbey, Britain's largest monastic ruin, was founded in 1132 by 13 Benedictine monks seeking a simpler life. Following the Dissolution of the Mo...

Guernsey is the most western of the Channel Islands, with a proud maritime history spanning many centuries. Only 25 square miles, the island nevert...

'Whitstable is a stirring little town, with strong business proclivities, and a history stretching far back into the remote past.' So wrote a Kenti...

There have been some fine histories of Didsbury compiled over the last 150 years since the publication of A History of the Chapels of Didsbury &...

Beverley, founded around AD 700 by St John of Beverley during the time of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria, was an important centre of trade from...