Local History

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Illustrated with 200 archive photographs, postcards and other printed ephemera, many previously unpublished, Highgate guides the reader on a circul...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

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...