Local history

In this, a companion volume to his definitive history of Yorkshires pleasure piers, Martin Easdown turns his expert attention westward to the Lancashire coast.

For north Georgian farmers in 1870, the cost of traveling over rough paths from farm to market by mule and wagon was prohibitive.

On the eve of the Great War, Norwich was very much a city on the rise an industrial and commercial powerhouse.

Tucked away in the nations heartland, a boy was born the very summer the United States would enter the First World War.

True accounts of crime and conspiracy over the centuries in this English railway town, from highway robberies to modern-day homicides—includes photos.

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Death in Stratford and South Warwickshire is an exploration of the darker history of the area.

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Derby is a collection of gruesome murders brought together by author Kevin Turton.

A nation that fails to protect its borders is not a nation at all.

Summerville ParkA Centennial History tells the story ofthe development of a community on the outskirts of Rome,Georgia, on the occasion of the neighborhoods 100thanniversary.

Operating just outside of Houston for 130 years, the Chicken Ranch was probably the oldest continually active brothel in America.

London - one of the world's most exciting cities.

The life and times of a Wakefield woman in the late twentieth century with substantial local historical information.

SOUTHERN CULTURE CONTAINED ELEMENTS THAT PROVED DYSFUNCTIONAL TO WINNING A PRE-MODERN WAR FOR SECESSION.

Greek immigrants came to Chicago in droves in the early 1900s, and most of them made immediate contributions to the city.

Doncaster has world-wide fame as a railway town.

There were fewer than 500 houses in Yateley in WWI but with Aldershot, Farnborough, Camberley and Sandhurst close by, this Hampshire villages response to the call to arms was more prepared than most, and punched above its weight.

My Family in America since 1620 reaches back to the early years of the European presence in North America to tell how William Brewster, one of the leading Pilgrims on the Mayflower, came to America in 1620.

Arkansas History: A Journey through TimeThe Growth of the Twenty-Fifth State of the Union from 1833 to 1957 places in the hands of students and teachers a curated compilation of excerpts from original sources that tell the story of Arkansas from the founding efforts of the first advocates for the states formation in 1833 through the confrontation at the Little Rock Central High School in 1957 that brought international attention to the American civil rights movement.

This book is the result of decades-long academic research and 25 years of emergence in the myth of the American dream.

Aimed at visitors and residents alike, this companion to the history of Coventry is an indispensable reference guide to the long, varied and sometimes surprising story of the town.

Written by a man who was at the heart of the Sheffield steel industry throughout its most turbulent years.

365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be British is a year-long scenic route of jollyness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Great Britain a nation worth celebrating every day of the year.

More than 350 bombs fell on Wimbledon during the Second World War, killing 150 residents and injuring a further 1,071.

An intimate history of the Getty Museum from its early relatively modest days until it unexpectedly received the endowment that made it the worlds wealthiest museum and eventually a private foundation of worldwide influence.

Merseyside played a unique role during the Second World War, which directly led to the area being a major enemy target in an attempt to put the port completely out of action.

Last Alarm: The Charleston 9 is the heart-wrenching story of how nine brave firefighters died battling the 2007 Sofa Super Store fire in Charleston, South Carolina.

Homesteading was a way of life for the many families living along the Kansas/Colorado Line.

The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip.

My book is an anthology of various battles fought in Texas from the year 1758 to 1874.

There is no such thing as the perfect crime.