Local History

A week on a beach, a day at a spa, a hike in the hills -- tourism is taken for granted today, but over the past 500 years, it has played a signific...

Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Sam...

The Little History of Lancashire covers the historic county which used to stretch from Coniston Water in the Lake District in the north to the Rive...

Did You Know? No one knows the origin of the word Hogmanay. Until late in the twentieth century, Hogmanay was celebrated on two distinct dates, ...

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

The Little Book of Glasgow is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which n...

The jewel in Waveneys crown, Bungay is a small market town in Suffolk that owes its sparkling title to both its rich heritage of historic buildings...

Since its first publication in 1984, Night Falls in Ardnamurchan has become a classic account of the life and death of a Highland community. The au...

In recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the ...

Upstate New York's Anti-Rent Movement is considered the last struggle over feudalism in the United States. Tenant farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk regi...

When called upon to name a noteworthy woman who lived in Oswego County, New York, most people would respond with Dr. Mary Walker, Elmina Spencer, o...

They call it Spanish Harlem or sometimes just El Barrio. But for over a century, East Harlem has been a melting pot of many ethnic groups, includin...

The beautiful county of Yorkshire is the largest in England, and yet still possesses a strong and cohesive regional identity. Built on centuries of...

The county of Lincolnshire is a beautiful mixture of low-lying marshy fen land, modest hills and the steep valleys of the rolling Wolds. It is also...

Kentish folklore reflects the curious geography and administrative history of Kent, with its extensive coastline and strong regional differences, w...

Challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish missionsSites of slavery and spiritual conquest, the California missions played a central role in the ...

Bosnian St. Louis is a warm and richly illustrated tribute to an unlikely immigrant success story in Americas heartland.   In the 1990s, Bosnia and...

In recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the ...