Local history

This exploration of Stowe through time offers something very different in its pictorial approach.

The book provides a comprehensive history of the third-largest Jewish community in Britain and fills an acknowledged gap in both Jewish and urban historiography.

The picturesque market town of Evesham in Worcestershire is situated in a loop of the River Avon.

The Abbey, Britain's largest monastic ruin, was founded in 1132 by 13 Benedictine monks seeking a simpler life.

Crewe Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country.

Wilmslow has played host to wartime codebreaker Alan Turing, children's broadcaster Romany and several worldfamous footballers.

This book analyzes the ways collective memories of the US-Mexico War have shaped Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles over several generations.

A fresh, lively retelling of the life of one of the most infamous characters of the Old West, Doc Holliday, by an imaginative, yet accurate storyteller.

"e;This collection of Hal Rothman's wide-ranging, brash, and brilliant essays on Las Vegas offers up a treasury of insights on the follies and possibilities of the New West.

Rachel Moores and her husband David operated a cotton plantation in the bottoms of the Sulphur River in North East Texas.

In 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship, renaming it Queen Anne's Revenge.

In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice.

Street's reputation for being England's largest village has become more and more contradictory.

This is the story of Trafford Park in vintage photographs, once the largest industrialised area in Britain and the workshop of Greater Manchester.

In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighboring Carteret and Craven Counties in southeastern North Carolina, marking the beginning of an occupation that would continue for the rest of the war.

In 1854, Saint Paul incorporated as a city and, in 1858 Minnesota was admitted to the union with Saint Paul becoming the 32nd state capital.

In 1928 New York native Muriel Earley Sheppard moved with her mining engineer husband to the Toe River Valley-an isolated pocket in North Carolina between the Blue Ridge and Iron Mountains.

Secret Bideford goes behind the facade of the familiar medieval town to discover lesser-known aspects of its fascinating past.

An important, interesting study of the relations between the Kennedy Space Center and the communities of Brevard County, Florida.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas.

In this first biography of Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.

Founded on a triangle of land bounded by two mighty rivers, Pittsburgh has a long and storied chapter in American history.

True stories of the Grand Canyon state's mostinfamous robbers, rustlers, and bandits.

World-class beaches, fragrant frangipani, swaying palms, and hula girls.

Anglo-Saxon Mercia was a great power in its day, although many aspects of it have been shrouded in myth and mystery.

Richmond, Virginia, took center stage globally in the summer of 2020 as an epicenter of antiracist protests in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd.

The Pier Head and landing stages have been places where the people of Liverpool have been able to view, participate in and enjoy many of the major maritime celebrations and events of the last hundred years.

This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years.

For centuries, Whitechapel has been at the centre of multicultural Britain.

Across all the boroughs, The Long Crisis shows, New Yorkers helped transform their broke and troubled city in the 1970s by taking the responsibilities of city governance into the private sector and market, steering the process of neoliberalism.

Cornwall marks the extreme south-western extent of Brunel's kingdom and the county is surprisingly rich in his works.

*Winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Nonfiction*In the 1840s and 50s, the Jicarilla Apache were the terror of the Santa Fe Trail and the Rio Arriba.

Despite its Anglo-Saxon origins, history has not always been kind to Southampton, especially during the twentieth century when extensive Second World War bombing and (sometimes) misguided town planning combined, resulting in the loss of many fine and interesting buildings.

A radical and exciting history of a city - its culture, its people and its politics - that refreshes our image of Europe's past and of the writing of history itself.

It is now commonplace to say that the future happens first in California, and this book, the first biography of legendary governor Edmund G.

Brothels and taverns, alehouses and inns, Portsmouth has seen it all.

Did you know there were vampires on the darkly atmospheric Salisbury Plain, not far from the famous Stonehenge?

By 1900, the tale of the 300 Texians who died in the 1836 battle of the Alamo had already become legend.

Since 1997, the Portable Antiquities Scheme has identified and recorded over 27,500 archaeological finds from Warwickshire.

The Remarkable Life of Albert Haskell, Jr.

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

A modern-day explorers guide to the Old WestFrom the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture.

In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments.

Over the past 400 years more than 800 pubs have opened in the city of Preston.

A look at the dark side of life in Bolton, this book provides the reader with a collection of true stories based on real murders.

This unique analysis of the rise of the juvenile justice system from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries uses one of the harshest states-California-as a case study for examining racism in the treatment of incarcerated young people of color.

The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten.

In the first decades of the 1800s, white Americans entered the rugged lands of Arkansas, which they had little explored before.