Local history

Located on the north bank of the River Thames opposite Gravesend, with which there has been a ferry link for centuries, Tilbury Landing Stage is a fine vantage point for viewing shipping passing to and from upriver berths.

Ripon History Tour offers a fascinating insight into the history of this city in Yorkshire.

Leeds is a city of great history and heritage.

Cornwall is a popular holiday destination best known for its dramatic coastal scenery and wonderful beaches.

Rochester in Kent has long been a strategically important town, guarding the lowest crossing of the River Medway.

The historic Royal Borough of Greenwich is well known for its magnificent maritime, military and civil architecture, ancient royal park, ship and boat building, and pioneering developments in scientific discovery, light industry and manufacturing.

The Hertfordshire town of Harpenden experienced the tragedies and hardships of war first-hand during the two world wars.

Stirling is associated with two of the most notable names and battles in Scottish history: William Wallace and the Battle of Stirling Bridge, and Robert the Bruce and the Battle of Bannockburn.

When the Romans invaded Scotland they constructed a fort in Cramond, a suburb of modern Edinburgh, near their frontier, the Antonine Wall.

The history of the south Wales city of Swansea stretches back to the establishment of a Viking trading post at the mouth of the River Tawe, and the settlement was granted a charter following the Norman Conquest.

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

Liverpool was founded by King John in 1207 as a military base on the River Mersey.

East Anglia - the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire - has a special beauty, from its haunting coastline and wide, open skies to its ancient buildings and historic cities, towns and villages.

The Leicestershire town of Loughborough is a historic market and university town that holds regular markets and an annual street fair, but is also famed for its industrial heritage.

Norfolk's military heritage dates back to the earliest times, from Iron Age forts, Iceni strongholds and Boudica's rebellion against Roman occupation to its front-line role with coastal defences and numerous airbases during the Second World War.

Southport: The Postcard Collection takes the reader back in time to the golden age of the postcard as it illustrates a resort that was one of the most fashionable in the country during the Edwardian era.

Like many cities in the UK, Manchester has changed dramatically over the years and continues to do so.

The hamlet of Worthing began to develop as a fashionable seaside resort during the late eighteenth century.

The history of a settlement at Southampton and its role as a major port on the south coast goes back to Roman times and beyond.

The largest county in England, Yorkshire boasts a huge variety of landscapes, from spectacular mountain and moorland scenery, rugged coastline, a haunting medieval legacy, to the proud imprint of the Industrial Revolution and vibrant modern cities.

Great Railway Journeys: London to Oxford and London to Cambridge is the fourth in Roger Mason's Great Railway Journeys series.

The historic city of Durham attracts many visitors each year.

Separated by the River Dee to the west and the River Mersey to the east, the Wirral Peninsula has its own unique character.

Like many towns and cities in the UK, Edinburgh has changed over the years and continues to do so.

Southampton Airport boasts a long history, with the first aircraft taking off from the original site at Stoneham Farm in 1910.

The coastal Somerset town of Minehead is situated on the Bristol Channel and on the edge of Exmoor National Park.

The Shropshire town of Oswestry, lying close to the Welsh border, has long been significant and its history reveals its mixed Welsh and English heritage.

The recorded history of Wakefield goes back more than 1,000 years and the city has evolved and changed over the centuries.

Gloucestershire is a large county, rich in food and drink heritage.

From some of the first ever airfields in Great Britain, through the municipal airports of Stoke, Walsall and Wolverhampton, to a total of eighteen RAF airfields in the Second World War, Staffordshire has always embraced aviation.

Known as the 'Queen of the Suburbs', Ealing is best known as being home to the world-famous Ealing Studios, the oldest film studios still in operation.

From medieval times when it was a major English stronghold against repeated Welsh attacks, to its current role as the county town of Herefordshire and a major centre of agricultural trade, Hereford has a proud and distinctive identity.

Beverley, founded around AD 700 by St John of Beverley during the time of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria, was an important centre of trade from the Middle Ages onwards.

The Welsh Marches are commonly defined as the two English border counties of Herefordshire and Shropshire.

Northumberland, the northernmost county in England, on the border of Scotland, boasts a spectacular variety of landscapes from the Cheviot Hills in the north-west of the county, high moorland, the Northumberland National Park and Kielder Forest, the spectacular geological feature of the Great Whin Sill to the North Sea coast and the Farne Islands.

Lying in the heart of England, Oxfordshire is justly famous for its historic university, but the county also boasts many beautiful natural features and a fascinating historic legacy.

This unique book explores the history of Cumbria via ten ancient routes that wind through some of the most spectacular parts of the Lake District and the rest of the county.

Lacock is an historic village in Wiltshire largely owned by the National Trust.

Kent is justly known as the Garden of England.

A-Z of Letchworth Garden City delves into the history of the first garden city in the world, which was founded in Hertfordshire in 1903 as the brainchild of social reformer Ebenezer Howard.

The sixties, seventies and eighties were decades of great change.

A-Z of Southend delves into the history of the Essex coastal town of Southend-on-Sea.

The West Sussex town of Horsham, lying on the River Arun in the Weald, has given its name to the famous Horsham stone, a sandstone quarried locally and used since the Middle Ages for roof tiles and paving slabs.

The city of Newport, lying on the River Usk in South Wales, has been an important port serving Wales since medieval times.

The A-Z of Horsham delves into the history of this West Sussex market town.

Bury St Edmunds is a proud and traditional medieval market town that has managed to preserve its identity in the face of post-war modernisation, and today attracts thousands of visitors who enjoy its unique charms.

The Tyneside town of Wallsend has always looked to the sea for opportunities.

Leith has played a long and prominent role in Scottish history.

Doncaster has always benefited from its location.

Somerset is one of the most diverse counties in England and includes Exmoor, the Quantock, Brendon and Mendip hills, traces of ancient mining, the watery Levels overlooked by Glastonbury Tor, tucked-away historic towns and rural villages that have magnificent medieval churches built with the wealth of the wool trade, the coast of the Bristol Channel, the small city of Wells with its magnificent cathedral, and the World Heritage city of Bath and other historic towns such as Taunton.