Local Interest, Family History & Nostalgia

As Meghan Markle once said: ''With fame comes opportunity, but it also includes responsibility - to advocate and share, to focus less on the glass ...

Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bai...

Nestling amongst the Isles absorbing and captivating history, lurks a time of violence, fear and disaffection the dark side of Axholmes past! For ...

The Little History Of Coventry packs into its pages the colour and incident of a thousand years, telling the story of a city that has perhaps been ...

The Little Book of the Cotswolds is a veritable smorgasbord of Cotswold miscellany, packed with fascinating titbits and all manner of factual fripp...

Tracing family history has become increasingly popular over the last few decades and the availability of many records online means that those fortu...

After the end of hostilities in 1945, the fishing industry was quick to establish some semblance of recovery and a surge of new builds and restorat...

The Little Book of Galway is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Galway. Here you will find out about...

Banbridge gets its name from the bridge built across the River Bann in 1712. Its a thriving modern town, rife with history and culture, surrounded ...

This book shines a light on the many areas of female activity in and around Watford, both in the home and at work, in traditional rural employment ...

Despite its Union with England and Wales in 1707, Scotland remained virtually independent from its partners in many ways, retaining its own legal s...

The origin of the names of many English towns, hamlets and villages date as far back as Saxon times, when kings like Alfred the Great established f...

The 'eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month' of 1918 was supposed to be the conclusion of the 'war to end all wars'. Just twenty-...

The establishment of the Roman fort of Mamucium in AD79 is the first known record of any military construction, or presence, in the area that is no...

Denby Dale and Upper Denby - Unknown and Unseen is the last of this ever-popular series of books and includes around 200 previously unpublished pho...

County Kildare abounds in folk tales, myths and legends and a selection of the best, drawn from historical sources and newly recorded local reminis...

Razed by Vikings! Deadly Danish assaults and demolitions. Neolithic murders! The tragic tale of Britains earliest recorded homicide! A deadly game ...

Youghal, County Cork, has a long history which predates most other towns in Ireland. The area was settled by Vikings and subsequently fortified by ...