Local History

Situated in the picturesque Tyne Valley in a landscape marked by Hadrian's Wall, Hexham is a town steeped in ancient history. This illustrated guid...

This illustrated book tells the story of the female colliery surface workers, or pit brow women, of the Wigan coalfield. The numbers of women worki...

Accompanied by over 100 illustrations this volume takes the reader on a tour around the inns, taverns and pubs of Kent, exploring their fascinating...

New and well-known spooky tales from around the historic City of Oxford.

Presents a pictorial history of Scarborough through photographs and images.

Searching the archives of the university, the Public Record Office, the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, this work collects more than 100 accounts t...

A selection of images featuring the town of Ashford along with many of its surrounding villages. Around Ashford provides a glimpse of what life was...

Ghostly goings-on in Brighton.

A history of Melton Mowbray

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

Presents a collection of archive photographs that traces some of the many ways in which Garston has changed and developed over the last hundred yea...

The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) were the precursors of arguably the finest, most efficient and certainly the ol...

Beyond the footlights

Plymouth is the third largest city in southern England, with a population of almost 250,000. This book includes suburban areas as well as the city ...

Like most big cities, Sheffield has lost many of its family-owned shops, department stores and Co-ops over the years, and there is a strong nostalg...

This spendid selection of nearly 200 photographs documents a poignant journey through the historical development of Burnley from the 1850s to the 1...

Using a selection of images from London in the Postwar Years by Douglas Whitworth, Michael Barrett compares them with modern views taken from ident...

Insurance Fire Brigades 1680-1929 describes how the Romans in Britain had well organised fire brigades, but that these ceased after the Romans left...

A history of Arnold & Bestwood.

There exist thousands of books covering every theme of Parisian life. Several hundred of these are guide books issued only in the last decade, and ...

A history of Taunton.

Explores the history of this town in a selection of historic and modern images. This book documents changes which include road developments, trade ...

In researching these theatrical ghost stories the authors have held vigil in dark auditoriums, lonely stairwells and melancholy boxes, behind the s...

This book is an illustrated, historical tour of the pubs and beer houses of Huddersfield and its environs by ne of the town's best known experts on...

From the notorious Pendle Witches, whose nefarious activities in the seventeenth century led to death and disaster, to the reviled Myra Hindley, th...

At the very beginning of the interwar period, a small collection of formally trained architects created a distinctive residential type which can un...

Presents a pictorial history of Hampstead Garden Suburb through a series of old photographs and images. This work is complete with historical capti...

Featuring over 200 photographs and supporting captions that show what life was really like years ago, this book presents the history of the beautif...

The River Thame is a small river running from the foothills of the Chilterns, through Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, on to its confluence with th...

Telling stories about well-known local characters of Paignton, the history of local businesses, A Paignton Scrapbook explores the truth behind vari...

Sidmouth is one of England's loveliest seaside towns. Including historical captions, this book offers a pictorial history of Sidmouth using a serie...

This engaging collection of around 200 archive photographs traces some of the changes and developments that have taken place in Stamford and the su...

A collection of images which explores the changes taking place in the London from 1850-1950.

Nestled within the heart of the county, sparsely and largely untouched by the pressures of the modern age, the Kent Downs are home to some of the m...

A biographical account of growing up in Derby in the 1940s and '50s from local author and columnist Anton Rippon.

A companion volume to "Roman Chester: City of the Eagles", this work offers an account of Chester from the late Roman period to the Norman Conquest...

Presents a pictorial history of Runcorn through photographs and images.

A book guaranteed to stir feelings of nostalgia in anyone who lived or worked in the city at the time.

A Century of Welsh Murders and Executions brings together thirty-six murderous tales that shocked not only Wales but also made national headlines. ...

Audley End House in Essex - or Station 43 as it was known during the Second World War - was used as the principal training school for SOE's Polish ...

A companion to "Edinburgh Old Town", this book provides more than 200 archive images accompanied by captions that explore the life and history of t...

This collection of over 200 photographs explores Bridgnorth and the outlying settlements of Broseley, Shifnal, Cleobury Mortimer, Much Wenlock and ...

From the dinosaurs and the glaciers to the first native peoples and the first European settlers, from Dutch and English Colonial rule to the Americ...

Wisteria House is a North Andover, Massachusetts landmark, named for the vigorous vine that has flourished on the veranda for more than 150 years. ...

Among the greatest of tragedies of the American frontier—the Donner Party, the Alamo, Wounded Knee—a little known but no less tragic event was the ...