Local Interest, Family History & Nostalgia

For centuries Farnborough was a small town south-west of London, but today it has transformed into a large, vibrant commercial community, synonymou...

Lost Rickmansworth, Croxley Green and Chorleywood portrays a vivid picture of the many losses and changes that have taken place in this lovely area...

The history of the ancient town and port of Dover goes back to the Roman times and beyond. Lying at the shortest crossing point to France and conti...

The First World War was won not just on the battlefields but on the Home Front, by the men, women and children left behind. This book explores the ...

In England today we enjoy a rich diversity of folk traditions, many of which can trace their beginnings back hundreds of years. They stem from ever...

Fully revised and updated. This comprehensive guide to the London section of the Thames Path Trail Guide covers the route from Hampton Court in the...

The port of Kingston upon Hull is one of England’s most historical and diverse cities, and boasts a wealth of taverns, inns, alehouses and public h...

Folk Tales and lore are woven into the ancient landscape of Devon: swimming in the rivers, soaring with the buzzards over farms and moors and makin...

Fort Nelson was built in the 1860s, as part of a chain of fortifications protecting the great naval harbour of Portsmouth and its Royal Dockyard fr...

Hampshire’s position on the south coast of England has meant that it has played a key role in this country’s military history for centuries. Its mi...

Ten miles outside Norwich, on the route to Thetford and the rest of the country, sits the Norfolk market town of Wymondham. Its name was once thoug...

Secret Chester offers a unique insight into one of England’s most visited cities through a series of little-known and forgotten stories, facts and ...

The large seaside town of Southport lies on the coast of the Irish Sea in the north-west of England. Located just 16 miles north of the city of Liv...

Drawn from original records, diaries and contemporary reports, The Edinburgh Book of Days contains a momentous, calamitous or intriguing event or f...

Passed down from generation to generation, many of Derbyshire’s most popular folk tales are gathered together here for the first time. Ranging from...

From Abbotts Ann and the Maiden’s Garlands to the Tichborne Dole and St Swithun’s forty days of rain, Folklore of Hampshire looks at the county as ...

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

These folk tales reflect the wild and secret character of between two countries and two worlds. The book other magical characters such as the Nethe...

In 1913 an ambitious young businessman named William Morris converted a derelict military college on the outskirts of Oxford into an assembly hall ...

Secret Coventry goes behind the façades of the familiar to discover the lesser-known aspects of the city’s fascinating past. Join author David McG...