Local history

Gloucestershire Airport is at the heart of an important British aviation community where legendary aircraft such as the Gladiator, the E28/39, the first British jet fighter, the Meteor and the delta-wing Javelin all-weather fighter, were created by the Gloster Aircraft Company.

For its size Knaresborough has enjoyed more than its fair share of history; it has been home to some of England's most intriguing characters and it boasts some of the most iconic views in Britain.

As one of America's most important missionaries, Junpero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California's missions.

The Hudsons Bay Company as an Imperial Factor: 1821-1869 explores the rise, consolidation, and eventual decline of the Hudsons Bay Companys fur trade monopoly in British North America.

The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "e;a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities.

Through much of its history the Cheshire town of Northwich was little more than 6 statutory acres.

In an era of unique baseball stadiums, the Polo Grounds in New York stood out from the rest.

Haworth is well-known throughout the world as the home of the Bronte sisters.

Arizona, the 48th state of the United States of America, is a land of diverse environments and unbelievable natural beauty.

The Branch Lines of Buckinghamshire gives the reader a marvellous wide-ranging view of over 100 years of rail travel in this area of Britain during an era of rapid change.

Poulton has a long history.

Of the many iconic towns of the old West, none has quite captured our imagination like Deadwood.

In the nineteenth century, the people of Alabama relied on newspapers to learn about the world outside their own hometowns.

[Freeman is] an excellent storyteller.

Historic Photos of Indianapolis captures the remarkable journey of this city and her people, with still photography from the finest archives of city, state and private collections.

The South Devon coast includes Dartmouth, Salcombe, Torquay, Paignton and Exmouth, as well as many other popular coastal locations.

Discover Florida, with its unique geography and exciting historyfrom ancient gold to modern real estate speculationby journeying along its highways.

Located at the foot of Lythe Bank, Sandsend is a picturesque village set against a backdrop of cliffs and meandering streams, which lead to the sandy beach.

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

DERBY'S history dates back over 2,000 years to when the Celtic Brigantine tribe inhabited the area on the banks of the River Derwent.

For most Americans, Iowa brings to mind endless acres of corn fields, one of the country's longest-running state fairs, and American Gothic, but few may know how it serendipitously became the birthplace of the most iconic apple, why thousands of cyclists brave the Midwestern heat and humidity to cross the entire state one week each year, or how a former Des Moines sports announcer became one of the White House's most popular residents.

Born in November 1859 as William H.

Recruited as sharpshooters and clothed in distinctive uniforms with green trim, the hand-picked regiment of the Ninth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was renowned and admired far and wide.

The sight, sound and smell of animals are a part of the story of every great city - and are also part of its hidden history.

Over 2,100 shipwrecks from the 16th century to the present; the most comprehensive listing now available.

Despite its image as an epicenter of progressive social policy, New York City continues to have one of the nation's most segregated school systems.

Lincolnshire today is a thriving agricultural county and home to one of the finest medieval cathedrals in the world, but not so long ago Lincolnshire was equally famous as a prosperous industrial county.

Hyde Park is a London favourite.

The story of the River Tees is one that combines tales of Roman forts, mythical beings and manufacturing heartlands.

This volume takes the reader on a carefully planned tour of a large and diverse segment of Brighton, using illustrations which in many cases have never previously been published in a book.

During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century a growing number of ordinary citizens had the feeling that all was not as it should be.

Whalley is sheltered by the wooded hillside of Whalley Nab on the banks of the beautiful River Calder.

Since Britain joined the European Economic Community in the mid-1970s, the fishing industry along our coasts has been under pressure from overfishing.

Coventry remembers the night of the Blitz, when many people lost their lives, lovely old buildings were destroyed, and the magnificent St Michael's, Coventry's cathedral, was burnt to the ground.

In this series, private investigators pick up where the historians left off, taking on a series of major cold cases in history, starting with the mishandling of evidence relating to the life and times of Billy the Kid.

Cotherstone village in County Durham is set on the River Tees, 4 miles from Barnard Castle.

Exmoor is one of southern England's few remaining wild landscapes.

In this fully revised and updated third edition of The Cornish Overseas (2020), Philip Payton draws upon almost two decades of additional research undertaken by historians the world over since the first paperback version of this book was published in 2005.

Home to the largest medieval gothic cathedral north of the Alps, York is one of Europe's most historically interesting cities.

This collection proposes Florida as a nexus of various contested moments, ideas, concepts, and relations.

Norfolk has many associations with the paranormal, from ancient tales of Shuck the hound that has haunted the county's lanes for a thousand years to tales of ghosts from the Second World War and of unidentified f lying objects.

The glorious county of Wiltshire boasts two World Heritage sites: Stonehenge and Avebury.

From January to July of 1862, the armies and navies of the Union and Confederacy conducted an incredibly complex and remarkably diverse range of operations in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

High Wycombe is often looked upon as the archetypal, provincial town - a suburban satellite of London with little history of note.

In relating the cases heard in the Courts of the County Assize in Gloucestershire nearly two centuries ago this book offers a variety of examples of the sins and sinners of those days, together with a fascinating insight into the consequences of those wrongdoings.

When August Fruge joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members.

Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title "e;Florida's Past"e; for Florida Trend, Florida's respected magazine of business and finance.

Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain.

On the southern portion of what was known as the Sibley's Pezuna del Caballo (Horse's Hoof) Ranch in West Texas' Culberson County are two mountains that nearly meet, forming a gap that frames a salt flat where Indians and later, pioneers came to gather salt to preserve foodstuffs.

Disruption, delays, travel chaos, fierce debate and financial woe have been regular newspaper headlines since Edinburgh announced plans to bring back trams.