Local History

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 ...

When George Washington and the Continental Army marched into Gulph Mills in December 1777, they were uncheered by any recent triumph. Washingtons a...

America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just th...

Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visio...

Worlds at the End attends to a body of literature that renders Los Angeless infrastructure, or its material foundations, as central to the rise and...

Worlds at the End attends to a body of literature that renders Los Angeless infrastructure, or its material foundations, as central to the rise and...

Sussex, although near London and nowadays extensively urbanised, has a rich heritage of traditional local stories, customs and beliefs. Among many ...

Throughout England there are thousands of lost or deserted villages. Most were abandoned after the Black Death or other plague epidemics, but some ...

Hanley has been the dominant Potteries town since the early nineteenth century. From being 'a humble collection of dwellings' in the early eighteen...

A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority  An artful, powerful book. . . . [A] substantial cont...

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Travel back in time to the Tudor era and explore the magnificent royal palaces of London along the River Thames. Discover the stories and events th...

The Little Book of Berkshire is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and events in the county, from its earliest ori...