Local Interest, Family History & Nostalgia

Cornwall has changed much over the last 100 years or so. Disused tin mines can be found scattered across the landscape together with signs of other...

This is one boy''s tale of growing up in Oxford in the forties and fifties. It is a foreign land of being caned on hand and bottom, of teachers was...

Frankfurt is a city that punches well above its weight. Despite its diminutive size--it has fewer than a million inhabitants--it is a financial cen...

How did professionals in the frenetic building world of Victorian London function? Peter Jefferson Smith's lively study of the I'Ansons goes far to...

Following the success of John Hunt''s previous volumes on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and the healthy on going demand for these volumes, the ...

The author was born in 1920 and so wrote this autobiography in the tenth decade of his life - hence the title. The structure of the book is deliber...

Monmouthshire may have a reputation as a quaint, idyllic, rural county but scratch the surface and youll find a past riddled with scandal, strife a...

''A new beginning and, whatever the weather, a time of hope ...'' In a secluded valley filled with beech woodland and rough grazing, a timeless far...

Whitby has a fascinating history, changing roles over the centuries from a religious centre to one of the countrys most important ports and later a...

In 1951, a young Black woman, working as an overnight caretaker at a county-line beer joint in southwestern Mississippi, shot and killed a white in...

The largest city in the East Midlands, Nottingham has been an important centre in the area since the Middle Ages. The old Saxon borough was built a...

The two communities of Hampstead and Highgate, perched on Londons northern heights, are remarkable for their leafy, atmospheric narrow streets and ...

The city of Wolverhampton was originally a Staffordshire market town. Its wealth was built on the woollen trade, but during the Industrial Revoluti...

The Wirral Peninsula in north-west England experienced the tragedies and hardships of war at first hand during the two world wars. Many residents l...

Haverfordwest, the county town of Pembrokeshire, was founded around 900 years ago. The town itself has three medieval parish churches and a priory,...