Local Interest, Family History & Nostalgia

THE REVIVAL AND RESTORATION of the Welsh Highland Railway is one of the greatest heritage railway achievements of the 21st Century, yet its success...

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

The Georgian era was perhaps one of the most shocking, gory, vice-ridden and downright surprising in the capital's history. From an anaconda attack...

In the early hours of 16th October 1987, the Great Storm raged relentlessly across south-east England. In Canterbury, the author awoke amidst sound...

The Little Book of Wales is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and history in Wales. Here we find out about the co...

Southend has a complex and surprisingly interesting history. From 18th-century origins as the South End of Prittlewell Parish, it has grown over 30...

The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Bradford offers an inti...

SUSSEX, East and West, has been well served by fine cartographers over the past four centuries, but this exciting work is no mere collection of his...

A history of Ely

The Little Book of Stillorgan is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about this vibrant suburb of Dublin. This boo...

Aldeburgh and Southwold are now very much delightful, fashionable coastal towns, set amid Suffolks flat farming country, but in the eighteenth cent...

Witney grew up as the result of deliberate planning on the part of successive Bishops of Winchester, a spacious, wedge-shaped market area being lai...

The latest cookbook by the Culinary Ambassador of the Chesapeake encourages us to cook in a way that is not only healthy for us but also for the Ba...

Struggle and Suffrage in Nottingham is the story of many women across the generations and their struggle for equality. This was not just a struggle...

Guildfords history dates from Saxon times, and the town has been the residence of kings and many famous men and women, particularly since Henry II ...

This collection of personal memories, from the people who have lived and worked in Southampton over the past seventy years, offers a fascinating in...

Joanna Dawson, a Methodist local preacher, dairy farmer and local historian, combined her religious faith with a delight in the local traditions of...

Nymans forms one of a group of gardens in the Sussex Weald which were created before the First World War and are still beautiful today, their owner...

Curious Buckinghamshire is a guide to over 100 unusual and extraordinary sights from all parts of the county. Featured here are tales of unsolved m...

For more than a thousand years the Afon Conwy the River Conway to the English provided a military gateway into the heart of North Wales, firstly ...

A Grim Almanac of Staffordshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from around the county. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearanc...

The aim of this book is to explain the origins of street names in Cleethorpes. In doing so, it gives an insight into the history and development of...

Following on from the success of the War Dead series in counties Tipperary, Wexford, Wicklow, and Offaly, Tom Burnell now turns his attention to Co...

Tales out of School is a light-hearted and nostalgic look in to life in one of the countrys most important secondary schools. St Columbs College ha...

The years immediately after the Second World War were known as the decade of disappearing Irish the peak period of emigration since the Great Fami...

There was a time when the two most notorious red-light districts not only in Ireland but in all of Europe could be found on the streets of Dublin. ...

West of Ireland; New Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century examines the lives of ordinary people in the west of Ireland and the political organisa...

Taking you through the year day by day, The Southampton Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, shocking, amusing and important events and facts f...

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

Since it was first broadcast on British television in 1997, Midsomer Murders has become one of the most-beloved detective dramas on television, ins...

From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural phenomena to first-hand encounters with ghouls and spirits, th...

Compiled by two highly respected authors and museum curators, this richly illustrated book features 100 objects ranging from a Viking Thors Hammer...

Taking you through the year day by day, The Cardiff Book of Days contains a quirky, eccentric, amusing or important event or fact from different pe...

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

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Castleknock and Blanchardstown, the main settlements in the Barony of Castleknock were small villages wh...

This fascinating pictorial history takes a look back at the days when Fife was home to a wide variety of traditional industries, including mining, ...

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...

A History of the World in 100 Objects by the British Museum and the BBC is a project which has fired the public imagination throughout the land. A ...

This chilling volume brings together more murderous tales that shocked not only the county but made headline news throughout the nation. Covering t...

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...

Haunted Bray is a series of supernatural accounts of happenings in Bray and the surrounding areas. The stories have been collected by the author ov...

This book takes a detailed look at the colourful history of the County Down, providing a guide to its rich heritage.

This book tells in detail what it was like to live in an English town constantly under siege from enemy guns in the Second World War. Many towns i...

A history of the Sussex coast