Local history

This book reminds me, in the sweetest way possible, that I probably should have never left Nashville.

A history of walking over the British countryside.

The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.

A flight of imagination back to a time when London was green meadows and rolling hills, dotted with babbling brooks.

The Broads discusses the history of the Broads, the people who come into contact with and influence these waterways, and what the future holds.

London's Natural History describes how the spread of man's activities has affected the plants and animals in them, destroying some and creating others.

The natural history of an ordinary English country parish was one of the first subjects that suggested themselves when the New Naturalist series was planned.

Dartmoor explores the complex and fascinating history of one of southern England's greatest National Parks, an area of enormous interest to naturalists and tourists alike.

The Broads discusses the history of the Broads, the waters in the past and the waters now, the people who come into contact with and influence these waterways, and what the future holds for this small but important area of the countryside.

An enthralling, rollicking tour among the storytellers of the American Deep South.

Ever thought about all the people who lived in your house before you?

A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America.

Set in his native Northern Ireland, John Lynch's debut novel is a lyrically told and exquisitely tender story of innocence and loss.

Melanie McGrath's critically acclaimed East End family memoir now in ebook format.

Please note that this edition does not include illustrations.

The authoritative and comprehensive guide to tracing your Scottish ancestryThere's never been a better time to trace your Scottish family history.

From the bestselling author of 'The Lighthouse Stevensons', a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century - and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea.

How do you find the strength to forgive in the midst of unthinkable grief?

How do you find the strength to forgive in the midst of unthinkable grief?

'Fascinating and timely.

From Feydeau to Fitzgerald, from Hugo to Hemingway, the Paris locations that have influenced modern literatureA photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary restaurants and storied streets of Europe's favourite tourist destinationLiterary Landscapes: Paris takes this major European city and with picture perfect photography, compiles an album of memorable views linked to the words of Parisian authors, or writers who made Paris their home.

Step into the everyday lives of East End Londoners during the Second World War 'I wanted to write about a time and a place when living in such a street - or rather a community - would have been part of so-called ordinary working people's everyday experience, but when the circumstances couldn't exactly be described as normal.

'Every page is a delight.

In the same format as the successful London Compendium, the Manchester Compendium relates the remarkable and diverse history of England's second city.

How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing AmericaNew York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "e;other half,"e; was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual technologies.

How the conflict between federal and state power has shaped American historyAmerican governance is burdened by a paradox.

A revealing look inside a controversial movementThey live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana.

An in-depth examination of the economic and social transition from slavery to capitalism during ReconstructionAt the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism.

How high energy consumption transformed postwar Phoenix and deepened inequalities in the American SouthwestIn 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders.

In 1884, twenty-three-year-old Corabelle Fellows left her family in Washington, DC, and journeyed out West to teach Native children in Nebraska and Dakota Territory.

In a little-known mountain range in southern New Mexico is an unremarkable mountain called Victorio Peak.

By 1883 when the rail lines of the Northern Pacific reached the tiny town of Cinnabar, Montana Territory, newspaper and magazine stories of the wonders to be found in Yellowstone National Park had been firing the imaginations of eager potential visitors around the world for a decade.

'The literary equivalent of a great session.

One of the most colorful parts of American History is the time of train robberies and the daring outlaws who undertook them in the period covering from just after the Civil War to 1924.

Washington, DC, gleams with stately columns and neoclassical temples, a pulsing hub of political power and prowess.