Local history

This is a unique archive of childrens hopes, fears, views and memories during times when political shifts affected and risked educational potential, performance and aspiration.

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Ebe Chandler McCabe, Jr, a retired Navy captain who also had a long career as a nuclear power plant regulator, examines his family history in context with mankind's.

On the way to a show in Skipton, in North Yorkshire, I noticed a road sign to a town called Keighley.

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.

A Swift and Deadly Maelstrom The Great Norwich Flood of 1963A Survivors Story by Thomas R.

The original 1983 manuscript written by Eugene Alvarez, who is the primary author of this book, included the years 15621983.

Discover the darker side of this scenic destination with over twenty true-crime tales, accompanied by photos and illustrations.

Take another walk down memory lane to the old Bronx with the late historian, Bill Twomey.

The letters are worn thin from rereading and sharing with family and friends, and age has discolored them.

Between 1900 and 1910, many Danish families who had transitioned through Ellis Island to Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska boarded the immigrant cars for one more ride with their children, their plows, their horses, their cow, and their trunks.

Danish Northwest is a poetry collection that shows "e;hygge"e; in its various aspects as practiced or rendered in the outskirts of Denmark, more precisely in the northwestern region of Jutland called Thy.

join the author in reliving sylvania's over 180 years of history from footpaths to expressways and beyond, in volume five of an eight volume set.

If you stop and look around you will see trees everywhere: not only in woods and plantations, in parks and gardens and in hedges but also along streets, beside motorways, on old colliery sites, around reservoirs, in the centre of villages and larger urban settlements and standing alone or in small groups in such diverse places as churchyards, in the middle of fields or on high moorlands.

This book describes experiences of Black people who lived throughout the Mississippi RiverBayou Lafourche Region of South Louisiana during the period 18751975.

'The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape' is part of the new established 'Making of.

More extraordinary but true stories from London's history.

Du Cane Court, in Balham, south-west London, is a popular art deco block of flats, which in its early days had a stylish restaurant and ballroom; and other social facilities, including rooms designated for playing billiards or cards, and even a reading and writing room.

Norwich Murders is an in-depth account of murders that have gripped the public imagination over two centuries.

Offering a one-of-a kind teaching resource for Texas history teachers, The Big Resource Guide to Teaching and Learning Texas History, by author and teacher Tracey Williams, includes everything to make Texas history come alive in the classroom.

There are now over 25 books published as part of the Aspects Series, each one taking readers on a voyage of nostalgic discovery through their town, city or area.

As far as I know, no one else has done such a book as this one giving the history of the whole of Brown County, so I did it myself with the help of Rhonda A.

Stafford in the Great War tells the fascinating story of a county town and its people between the catastrophic years of 1914-18 .

An Old Rangers Memories: Building Montaa de Oro State Park chronicles the adventures had in taking what used to be a working seaside ranch and transforming it into what would become San Luis Obispo Countys most-beloved state park.

This book provides information about the history and geography of the tiny village of Galloway in northwestern Pennsylvania.

In a superb companion volume to her best-selling book Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey, Glynis Cooper turns her attention to the dark side of the past in Jersey.

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

This look at everyday life for women on a small island off the British coast brings the female experience to the forefront of history.

In 1846, Joe Carson decides to sell his inn and move from Knoxville, Georgia, to Macon County, Georgia, near the future site of the town of Reynolds.

More than 120 years after the White Caps terrorized Sevier County in East Tennessee, longtime residents still wont talk about the lawless band of vigilantes.