Local History

Jeff Rozelaar was born into a Jewish family and raised in an East End bombarded by Hitlers V2s. Fortunate enough to be one of the lucky survivors o...

With this book is completed a trilogy of works begun in 2005 with This City Now: Glasgow and its Working Class Past, and continuing with Clydeside;...

Modern-day Cambridgeshire is a county of diverse landscapes: from the elegance of the university city and the rural delights of the old county of H...

Hornchurch was once a rural village, though it has now been swallowed up by Greater London. This nostalgic, moving and deeply personal set of recol...

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

Ely is an incredible city steeped in myth and legend and dominated by the Norman Cathedral, a masterpiece of medieval architecture. There have been...

Peterborough has a rich and fascinating history, stretching back 3,500 years to the Bronze Age. The city is a vibrant place with a new town surroun...

The Little Book of The East End is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information wh...

Dartmoor is one of the few wilderness areas remaining in the UK beautiful, mysterious and sometimes dangerous. From its rich, moss-covered ancient...

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

From its earliest beginnings through to the last days of the Second World War, Staffordshires county town has seen more than its fair share of gore...

This fascinating new book takes a nostalgic look at Skegness and reveals some of the changes and developments that have taken place in the town dur...

Taking you through the year day by day, The Isle of Wight Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from diff...

For the first quarter of the twentieth century, trams constituted the main workhorses of the public road transport system before Birmingham Corpora...

Experience 100 key dates that shaped Sunderlands history, highlighted its peoples genius (or silliness) and embraced the unexpected. Featuring an a...

Discover the rich and colourful history of Bristol with this collection of tales from across the city. Featuring a story for every day of the year,...

This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Doncaster during the 20th century. T...

The original editions of Curiosities of Bristol contained every surprising fact the Victorian reader could wish to know about the citys history. Fo...

Described in 1538 by John Leland as a pretty market town well occupied with clothiers, Wotton-under-Edge is tucked away in a picturesque location u...

A Grim Almanac of Lincolnshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centu...