Local history

A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 BestsellerA Times bestsellerA Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024A Spectator Book of the YearWhat kind of country is England today?

Aylesbury is Buckinghamshire's county town and has a rich history.

Kentucky is richly blessed with rivers.

Adam writes like nobody else, his fierce poetic power as inescapable as the doom that waits for his charactershis touch is that of a master in the making.

The market town of Barnsley in South Yorkshire has a long, proud history rooted in its industrial past.

Charles Darwin was one of the most influential scientific thinkers of his age and his ideas continue to inform our understanding of the natural world.

Located mainly across Portsea Island on the south coast, the city of Portsmouth is best known for its maritime heritage and association with the Royal Navy.

Winner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award for the Best Study in New Imperial History and History of Diversity in Northern EurasiaThis first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban life.

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The history of how North Atlantic America was revealed to the Europeans in the 16th and early 17th centuries is largely forgotten.

Grit, Not Glamour celebrates the contributions of our foremothers who devoted their lives to farming and ranching related pursuits.

En el seno del V centenario de las Germanías valencianas (1519-1522), este libro reúne interesantes y actualizadas reflexiones, así como ambiciosos análisis.

'An incredible testament to one man's determination' - The Sunday HeraldCalum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911.

Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third millennium.

Arran is an archaeological and geological treasure trove of stunning scenic beauty.

The Caledonian Canal records the history of one of Scotland's most massive engineering projects, from Thomas Telford's first survey in 1801 into the twenty-first century.

Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War?

Frome was historically one of the largest towns in Somerset and is rapidly growing today.

Journey back a century and a half back in time to one of the most significant meetings in US history, without which more than half of the American population wouldn't be allowed to vote.

Beneath the surface of the Potteries lies a little-known world that encompasses the history of the six towns that historically make up this area - Stoke, Burslem, Hanley, Fenton, Tunstall and Longton and the conurbation in North Staffordshire that has grown from these towns.

Warrington is an old, established town with a rapidly changing townscape during a transformation from a traditional industrial Lancashire centre to a twenty-first-century Cheshire New Town.

The cathedral city of Lincoln offers a wealth of history dating from the first-century BC settlement of 'Lindon'.

Eyam (pronounced Eem), given the Saxon name Eaham, meaning a well-watered hamlet, is a secluded Peak District village hemmed in by green slopes and majestic hills.

Wrexham is the largest town in North Wales and since 1996 has been the centre of the county borough.

Forged through centuries of armed struggle and foreign domination, aggressive invaders, oppressive monarchs, and rebellious citizens have repeatedly clashed to create Berkshire's military heritage.

Somerset has a varied landscape, from upland Exmoor to the low-lying wetland levels and moors, and the mineral rich Mendips to the agricultural land of South Somerset.

"Esta obra forma parte de los proyectos del Plan Bilbao Aurrera 2021 del Ayuntamiento de Bilbao".

The musical and cultural impact of the Fab Four in Florida In 1964, Beatlemania flooded the United States.

For over four centuries, California has been an ever-changing landscape of innovation and revolution, triumph and tragedy.

Part personal memoir, part cultural history, West is a compendium of 'tales', telling the story of a unique geographical and literary landscape - the western Midlands of England.

The editors of Texas Monthly explore what it means to be a Texan in this anthology packed with essays, reportage, recipes, and recommendations from their renowned list of contributors.

Following the events of January 6, 2021, talk of vigilantes and mob violence have become a part of our daily discourse, reminding us that we haven't come as far as we thought from the ';wild' days of the Old West.

Més de 200 curiositats dividides per sis èpoques diferents, a més d'un epíleg amb els carrers principals, denominacions populars, refranys barcelonins, els orígens dels barris, etc.

Elvis is waiting outside in a big pink Caddy.

In late eighteenth-century Yorkshire a powerful gang of counterfeiters held the local community in its spell.

During the Industrial Revolution, the western valley of Gwent underwent a dramatic change to become one of the most important iron producing areas in Britain, with rich deposits of iron ore, coal and limestone.

Bicester: A Potted History covers the full history of the town, from the Roman settlement of Alchester that preceded it, through its Saxon, Tudor and Victorian developments, right up to the present day.

Despite a history stretching back almost 2,000 years, the City of London is one of the world's most modern, booming and yet unspoiled places to visit.

A reappraisal of this unique northern industrial town situated at the end of a long peninsula, Barrow-in-Furness Reflections seeks to record the changing face of the town over time.

Few counties can rival Essex's extensive and varied military history.

Newcastle upon Tyne has long been an important city in the north-east of England.

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

Taunton has always had a special and significant place in Somerset's history.

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award 2024A fascinating, lyrical account of an east-west walk across Britain's westernmost and most mysterious region.

This comprehensive study of the Western covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, True Grit, and Cowboys & Aliens.

In 1949, lawyer, historian, and journalist Carey McWilliams stepped back to assess the state of California at the end of its first one hundred years-its history, population, politics, agriculture, and social concerns.

San Diego in the 1930s offers a lively account of the city's culture, roadside attractions, and history-from the days of the Spanish missions to the pre-Second World War boom.

Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity.