Local history

A richly textured account of what it means to be poor in AmericaBaltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America.

A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi floodThe Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which covered nearly thirty thousand square miles across seven states, was the most destructive river flood in U.

The history of New Orleans at the turn of the nineteenth centuryIn 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's American empire.

During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "e;The City Too Busy to Hate,"e; a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together.

Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives.

Mothers of Conservatism tells the story of 1950s Southern Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots right in the two decades following World War II.

What Kansas really tells us about red state AmericaNo state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas.

The transformation of the American South--from authoritarian to democratic rule--is the most important political development since World War II.

The social transformation of the American Midwest in the postwar eraFor many Americans, the Midwest is a vast unknown.

In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "e;Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.

The untold story of how colonial New England was built on the Atlantic slave tradeTen Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England.

It was a project like no other.

The north-west seaside resort of Southport can trace its origins back to 1792 when William Sutton, a pub landlord from Churchtown, built a bathing house in a sparsely populated area a few miles down the coast.

Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives.

Cotherstone village in County Durham is set on the River Tees, 4 miles from Barnard Castle.

Animals have shaped the cultural and economic life of Glasgow through the ages, and many statues and other memorials around the city honour the role played by animals in the city's history.

Norfolk has many places of interest connected with its diverse and sometimes bloody past.

Leicester has long been an important city in the East Midlands.

The county town of Warwick is famous for its castle, St Mary's Collegiate Church, with its links to Joan of Arc, and the Lord Leycester Hospital, but much more of its history has been too often overlooked.

The historic county of Fife is a natural peninsula on the east coast of Scotland, bordered by the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Tay.

Southend-on-Sea was only developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when it became a popular seaside resort, but behind its facade lie many little-known and fascinating stories.

Stirlingshire is central to Scotland and its history.

The ancient city of Bath has always attracted visitors, flourishing in the Georgian era and becoming home for the fashionable and wealthy.

Sussex is a fascinating county, saturated with history, legends and mysteries.

Surrey is one of the smallest of the English counties, but also one of the most populous.

A World Heritage Site since 1999, the New Forest is not that new and not really a forest.

Warwickshire, often known as Shakespeare's County, has a host of strange and mysterious tales ranging from ancient legends and stories of the supernatural to more modern documented cases.

Burnbanks Village near Aberdeen has been in existence for over 200 years but from the 1950s onwards it lay in various states of dereliction and was finally abandoned in 1980, leaving roofless shells and shattered ruins.

In this book, Ian Collard uses his collection of rare and previously unpublished images to tell the story of the Irish sea ports located on the River Mersey and River Dee.

Bexhill may have one of the highest percentages of retired people in the country, but this fascinating town does not deserve its reputation as God's waiting room.

Ealing is best known as the 'Queen of the Suburbs', but there is far more to its rich history than that.

Bounded by the River Dee and Wales on one side and the River Mersey and Liverpool on the other, the Wirral Peninsula has its own special history.

London's docks were once the busiest in Britain.

This is the story of an empire founded on pigs.

Animals have featured in the lives and cultures of the people of Merseyside since the dawn of time, and in so many ways.

Our streets are enriched by a huge variety of objects, from water fountains and horse troughs to post boxes, signposts and more.

Wakefield was originally a settlement on the River Calder in West Yorkshire, first Anglo-Saxon, then Viking controlled.

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

Although Liverpool's history goes back to the Middle Ages, the opening of the port to the Atlantic trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries allowed it to grow rapidly.

Dorset, which lies in the south-west of England, boasts a wide variety of spectacular landscapes, from the cliffs and beaches of its Jurassic Coast, its chalk downs and limestone hills, heathland and vales, to its historic towns and villages and other ancient settlements.

The city of Wolverhampton was originally a Staffordshire market town.

The two rivers that run through Chelmsford - the Chelmer and the Can - were paramount in its making.

Leicester is built upon the work of the innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers of past centuries.

Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, has been central to Scottish life and its history over the centuries.

Edinburgh has a fascinating 'Underground City', much of which is open to the public.

Southampton has been a major port on the south coast of England since the Middle Ages.

Sunderland's proud history encompasses its beginnings as a major centre of religious learning in the early medieval period and its growth into a major port and shipbuilding centre on the mouth of the River Wear.

Coventry has been one of the most important cities in England since the Middle Ages.

The county of Staffordshire has an impressive military history and heritage that stretches back well over 1,000 years.

Portsmouth's position on the south coast of England has meant it has been an important port for centuries, and the heavily fortified home of the Royal Navy.