Local history

Little Germany takes us back to the nineteenth century, when Bradford, West Yorkshire, was the wool capital of the world.

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Shoreditch, including neighbouring Hoxton, has a fascinating history, and contains a magnificent variety of buildings.

From 1860 to 1900, many towns in Nevada sprang up to serve the mining camps in the area.

The city of Limerick, in the west of Ireland, has an interesting history.

Maidstone, the county town of Kent, has a colourful history shaped by battles, royalty, revolts, witches, mad priests, industrialists, brewers and Victorian benefactors.

Unlike many other small villages in the UK, Lesmahagow has many claims to fame because of its location and geological heritage and due to many of its sometime residents having taken up influential roles in the history of the nation.

The landscape, buildings and people of Kent have provided inspiration for writers for centuries.

Peter Bruff's Victorian vision of a new cliff-top seaside resort on the Essex coast created Clacton-on-Sea, which got off to a slow start, began to prosper during the early years of the twentieth century and then flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, becoming one of the country's leading holiday destinations.

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.

This book is centered on the fifteen landmark cases as identified and required for students taking the College Board Advanced Placement(R) Government and Politics Exam.

From the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation's most restrictive laws on alcohol production and sale.

The Foord viaduct, built in the 1840s under the guidance of engineer Sir William Cubitt, is one of Folkestone's most iconic and beloved structures.

During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, ham radio went from being an experiment to virtually an art form.

What happened to the documents captured in the Alamo?

Crewe was just a small settlement in east Cheshire until the arrival of the railways in the nineteenth century.

Railroads, tourism, and government bureaucracy combined to create modern religion in the American West, argues David Walker in this innovative study of Mormonisms ascendency in the railroad era.

Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2021 More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them.

Buildings are among the crucial features that define a city.

The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway is perhaps best known for its role in the 1970s film The Railway Children, based on Edith Nesbit's much-loved book.

In the American imagination, "e;Appalachia"e; designates more than a geographical region.

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South.

The largest of the Channel Islands, Jersey is situated 85 miles from the English coast and 14 miles from France.

As long ago as 1720, Daniel Defoe commented on the charm of the Stanmore area and it is not without that charm today.

From White Hots to the Garbage Plate, Wegman's to Bill Gray's, Historic Photos of Rochester is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives.

This volume contains a parade of exciting events written in a lively, readable style, with the purpose of pleasantly instructing the intermediate-grade student in North Carolina history.

Bolton was the centre of the Lancashire cotton industry, and experienced rapid expansion and population growth in the nineteenth century.

Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid-1800s to forge a new life.

Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South.

Mark Twain's wit and wisdom is timeless.

Its farming and fishing industries yield an impressive harvest of ingredients, so it is no surprise to discover that Sussex also boasts a rich culinary heritage.

Dwelling along the Mississippi River, the Tennessee state line, the Tenn-Tom Waterway, and the Gulf of Mexico are a trove of characters with fascinating lives and histories.

Ten years before the start of the American Revolution, backcountry settlers in the North Carolina Piedmont launched their own defiant bid for economic independence and political liberty.

After leaving home at a young age and defying her parents to marry the dashing Garrett Maupin, Martha Maupin's future became bound up with some of the most extraordinary events in antebellum American history, eventually leading to her journey to a new life on the Oregon Trail.

Haverfordwest, the county town of Pembrokeshire, was founded around 900 years ago.

During the late twentieth century, the number of museums in the UK dramatically increased.

Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness is a social history of the perceptions and treatment of the mentally ill in South Carolina over two centuries.

The Wirral Peninsula in north-west England experienced the tragedies and hardships of war at first hand during the two world wars.

Founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina, Black Mountain College fostered experimentation and interdisciplinary learning, placing the arts at the heart of its curriculum.

Pembrokeshire contains some of the finest coastal scenery in Britain.

Hove, west of its immediate neighbour Brighton, was a small fishing village on the Sussex coast until its development in the early nineteenth century as a fashionable seaside resort for wealthy Londoners following the patronage of the prince regent, later George IV.

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.

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 communities that feature in this book lie to the east of Edinburgh and all have fallen prey over the years to its inevitable expansion.

Stronghold of the Romans, and later the Vikings, York was to become the powerbase of the infamous 'Railway King', George Hudson, whose empire would eventually extend from the far north of England to the south and south-west.

The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's glitzy faade, exposing the citys ugly underbelly of corruption, crime, and murder.

The ancient Suffolk market town of Beccles has a history of more than a thousand years, which saw it flourish as one of the principal trading communities in the county.

This illustrated history portrays one of England's great cities.