Local Interest, Family History & Nostalgia

Packed with fascinating facts, fun things to do and clues about the Earths history, this book will tell you all you need to know about Giants Cause...

Attingham Park, built for the 1st Lord Berwick in 1785, was owned by the same family for more than 160 years. As their fortunes rose and fell, they...

Forming part of the North Downs, Box Hill has long been famed for its breathtaking views across the surrounding countryside. Its rich bio-diversity...

This pioneering 18th century cotton mill, complete with working water wheels and looms once belonged to the wealthy Greg family. It houses the most...

Concealed behind high walls and hedges, The Courts is a hidden 7-acre treasure in the lively Wiltshire village of Holt. Laid out as a series of for...

This compendium brings together thirty-three murderous tales one from each of the capitals boroughs that not only shocked the City but made headl...

The Sandham Memorial Chapel is Stanley Spencer''s monument to the ''forgotten dead'' of the First World War. Drawing on his experiences as a medica...

In the eighteenth century, Claremont was among the most famous landscape gardens in Europe. From 1714 it was the home of the leading politician Tho...

What the historian Sir John Dunlop, writing in 1964, called 'The Pleasant Town of Sevenoaks' has come a long way since it was established as a smal...

WINNER, THE VICTORIAN SOCIETY NEW YORK, 2022 BOOK AWARD How a prolific yet little-known architect changed the face of education in New York City As...

The untold story of African-born migrants and their vibrant African influence in Harlem. From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Harlem was the intellec...

Most birders keep lists of the species birds they have seen, but do any keep a list of pub birds, that is birds on pub signs and in pub names? This...

What do the traditional plain-living Amish have to teach twenty-first-century Americans in our hyper-everything world? As it turns out, quite a lot...

Rutland is at the very heart of England. It is Englands smallest historic county, less than 20 miles in distance from north to south or east to wes...