Local Interest, Family History & Nostalgia

This is a delightful collection of memories from the golden age of cinema in Manchester. Filled with archive images, it recalls courting days and w...

Jersey has a remarkable history, especially during the many centuries since it became an exposed, surviving outpost of Duke William's Duchy, within...

Seventies Spotting Days Around the Southern Region is a full-colour photographic album depicting the 1970s with coverage of both diesel and electri...

The popular seaside resort of Scarborough has long been a haven for holidaymakers, but the town also harbours some disturbing secrets. Discover the...

The birthplace of Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon is a celebrated and much-visited town. From the probable origins of Stratford as a monastic sett...

A 'stuccoed town in the Regency manner', a watering place that became the most fashionable resort in England following George III's visit, or a pla...

If you were told that from about 1920 to 1950 a school in Gloucestershire was visited almost every week by interested groups from all over the UK a...

A constant factor in human history is the need to protect oneself. Another factor is the urge to attack someone else. Until the Normans imposed the...

The history of an essential Alabama restaurant.Like the celestial body after which it was named, the Bright Star Restaurant is a beacon that has at...

Nineteenth-century Dundee was a tough, unforgiving place. For many of its citizens, it was the survival of the fittest, and to survive they turned ...

Scotland is often seen as a land of mystery, a place where reality collides with the world of spirits and phantoms. But what effect does that have ...

Ripon's story comes alive on this tour around the city. Evidence of life here hundreds of millions of years ago, with 'Ripon' at the edge of a trop...

Haworth is a picturesque Pennine village that is now famed for the Brontë family and the steam railway. Behind the tourist village of today lies a ...

The title is also available in English Beatrix Potter, born into a wealthy London family, became a passionate countrywoman and skilled farmer in t...