Local history

Wallasey expanded massively in the nineteenth century following the construction of the docks, which brought in a wealth of other industries, including shipbuilding.

Wiltshire's very landscape is steeped in folklore and mythology, with almost every hill, standing stone and barrow having its own stories and legends.

In New England today there are megalithic stones, stone chambers and structures, carvings and petroglyphs, even an unidentified skeleton in armor that defy easy explanation.

When Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the US Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false.

Discover London like never before with The London Year, your month-by-month guide to 200 of the city's most exciting, unusual and unforgettable events.

Northeast Louisiana is the home of amazingly innovative people who have risen above the challenges that would cripple less capable people.

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Spokane, Washington's first female physician, Mary Archard Latham moved to the community with her three sonsleaving her husband behind in Ohioin 1888.

Spokane, Washington's first female physician, Mary Archard Latham moved to the community with her three sonsleaving her husband behind in Ohioin 1888.

Youth culture is not an invention of twentieth-century movies and television; youth have been forming their own cultures from the moment they were given space to invent their own ways of relating to one another and to their parents and communities.

The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities.

Since their introduction in the 1950s, the Class 08, the most common type of British Rail shunter, has been found in almost every area of the UK.

The county of Carmarthenshire has an impressive military history and heritage which stretches back into the Iron Age.

Nassim Rajwan recalls the Jewish community he missed in Baghdad, which he grew up in from the 1920s until 1951 when he left Iraq.

The cathedral city of Truro is a major administrative and commercial centre in Cornwall.

Haverfordwest is the county town of Pembrokeshire.

'From the moment that these waters were given back their beavers, I knew that I would never wish to return to the time when they were without them .

A comprehensive record of the achievements of scholars contemporary to the thinker Muhammad Kurd Ali, accompanied by their illustrious academic biographies.

Reflects on Scotland's dramatic transformation since 1945 through personal memories and eyewitness accounts.

When the features of Iranian civilization became clear and expanded politically to control most of the Near East, after the fall of Babylon and the fall of the great Near Eastern civilizations, Iran took over and ensured continued communication with the ancient and early medieval West (Greece, Rome, and Byzantium), and the Far East with its two great orbits, China and India.

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Evesham grew up within a bend of the River Avon around its famous abbey, one of the largest in the country, and although the abbey was destroyed in the sixteenth century, the town remained one of the most important settlements in Worcestershire.

The Berkshire town of Wokingham has over 1,000 years of history, and this history is interwoven with the bigger story of England.

Set in the heart of England, the undulating county of Warwickshire is famous as the birthplace of William Shakespeare.

Warrington is a twentieth-century New Town with a history stretching back to prehistoric times.

The history of Greenwich is inseparable from its maritime history and royal palace.

The landscape, buildings and people of Kent have provided inspiration for writers for centuries.

Lincolnshire is a county of contrasts, ranging from the seaside resorts on the east coast to the rolling chalk hills of the Lincolnshire Wolds and the fenland area of the south-east.

London has been transformed in the last two or three decades since the 1990s.

The River Lea and its crossing at Hertford lie at the heart of the town's history.

Youth culture is not an invention of twentieth-century movies and television; youth have been forming their own cultures from the moment they were given space to invent their own ways of relating to one another and to their parents and communities.

Over the last two decades, the political narrative of the liberal coasts and the conservative heartland has become something of a truism, leading many Democrats to write off much of the Midwest as a Republican stronghold.

Since its original publication in 1975, The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century has become an important teaching tool and research volume.

Das Salzkammergut – geheimnisvoll und wunderschönDie Idylle blitzblauer Seen, majestätischer Gipfel und zuckersüßer Operettenmelodien in Kombination mit einer sagendurchwirkten Geschichte – so kennt die Welt das Salzkammergut im Herzen Österreichs.

Greed and corruption, bribery and fraud, insiders getting fabulously rich while workers get robbed.

Connects river sciences to queer and trans theory through collaborative restoration workRivers host vibrant multispecies communities in their waters and along their banks, and, according to queer-trans-feminist river scientist Cleo Wlfle Hazard, their future vitality requires centering the values of justice, sovereignty, and dynamism.

Desert Dreams chronicles seventy-five years of Mexican American efforts to attain educational equality in Arizona, from its territorial period in the nineteenth century to the post-World War II era.

Dorset's county town of Dorchester is famous for its association with the writer Thomas Hardy but its history contains much more that has often been overlooked.

Gloucester's history stretches back almost 2,000 years to its foundation by the Romans.

The wonderful town of Bury St Edmunds is indelibly linked to the first patron saint of England, St Edmund, who was martyred in AD 869 and would eventually be enshrined in his magnificent abbey church, alas now in ruins.

Peterborough grew up around its cathedral, originally founded as an Anglo-Saxon monastery, but it was only in the nineteenth century that this city on the edge of the Fens started to grow to its present size as one of the largest cities in the east of England.

The paranormal history of Buckinghamshire is brought vividly to life in this, the first dedicated guide to the haunted and uncanny sites of this most beautiful, yet mysterious of home counties.

The sixties, seventies and eighties were decades of great change.

The borough of Newham in East London was largely built up from the 1800s onwards.

Southampton has been a major port on the south coast of England since the Norman Conquest, when it was a significant departure route for trade to Normandy, as well as for invading forces.

From the wooded depths of the Wealden forest to the fortified cliffs of the Channel coast, and from the high hills of the North Downs to the wide flats of the Romney Marsh, Kent is a county of contrast and variety.

Desert Dreams chronicles seventy-five years of Mexican American efforts to attain educational equality in Arizona, from its territorial period in the nineteenth century to the post-World War II era.

Dispatches from a land of extremes, by writers and movie stars, natives and visitors, activists and pioneers, and more.

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Struggle and Suffrage in Nottingham is the story of many women across the generations and their struggle for equality.