Local Interest, Family History & Nostalgia

The role of women during the mid-19th to mid-20th century is little documented; however, it was a time of great political and social change. The gr...

This book looks into the role of women of Sheffield and how it has evolved from the powerlessness of a woman involved in a wife sale, to the achiev...

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

When Jim Body joined Great Northern Railway in 1916, he could never have imagined that it would become ''the family business'', with both his son G...

Granite is the most unyielding of building materials. The great granite quarries of the North East are silent now, as are virtually all of the 100 ...

The road to suffrage for the women of Leatherhead was often bumpy and unwelcomed by men and women alike. The Women's Suffrage Caravan rolled into L...

The outbreak of war marked a new era for the people of Cumbria. Many young men and women enlisted in the Forces, while older people joined the Home...

A century on from its original Edwardian construction, this contemporary portrait of a street in inner Manchester tells the stories of todays resid...

How did a spider change the course of history? What would a body in the chimney want with a lonely old woman? And what terrible deed could make a C...

When Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, Cardiff and its surroundings, like every other city, town, hamlet and village in the coun...

Oxfordshire is the hive to which great artists, scientists, thinkers and warlords have swarmed for 2,000 years. You will be amazed at how many hist...

Nancy Astor, the first female MP to take her seat in Parliament; Dr Mabel Ramsay, instrumental in the suffrage campaign in the south-west; Dame Agn...

Oxfordshire has a proud history as an agricultural county, relying for centuries on the wool trade for its prosperity. It is also famous for the fo...

Artisan Edinburgh is the culmination of interviews and studio visits with some of the citys finest makers, giving a unique insight into their indiv...

This fine Palladian house known as New Park was built between 1777 and 1783 and became part of the golden age of the Georgian country house. Its ow...

For the first time in its 750-year existence, a full history of Holy Trinity is available to the general public. One of only a small number of pari...

The census is an essential survey of our population, and it is a source of basic information for local and national government and for various orga...

Many people in the past - perhaps a majority - were poor. Tracing our ancestors amongst them involves consulting a wide range of sources. Stuart Ra...

This is not a chronological history of Manchester with lists of facts and figures. Rather, it is an eclectic mix of fact, fiction, legend and myth ...

Birmingham's Got Talent! Well, there can't be any question about that - a shopping centre that has always rivalled almost anywhere in existence, a ...