Local history

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

In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County.

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

This is the ninth volume in the ten-part series of regional books examining the industrial railways of England, Scotland and Wales.

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The ancient market town of Rayleigh is rich in both its history and in the historians who have told the tale.

Once a small fishing hamlet, the origins of modern Bognor Regis lie in the attempt by Sir Richard Hotham to develop this part of the south coast as a fashionable resort in the late eighteenth century.

During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "e;The City Too Busy to Hate,"e; a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together.

By considering the folklore of Cornwall in a Northern European context, this book casts light on a treasury of often-ignored traditions.

In this book, Philip Ranlet examines the prolific political career of Cadwallader Colden.

A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southwestern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world.

Manchester's proud past can be well summed up in its headlines.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the U.

The unique profile of Edinburgh was born of a marriage between nature's sculpture and man's architecture.

Bucknall to Cellarhead Through Time follows a short stretch of the A52 from the ancient village of Bucknall, at the edge of the Stoke-on-Trent conurbation, to Cellarhead in the Staffordshire Moorlands.

Cork City, Ireland's southern capital, is a place of tradition, continuity, change and legacy.

The impact of people and places in Wolstanton and May Bank is recorded in this pictorial record that recognises the contribution of village notables, dear old friends and long-gone institutions.

The railway at Ipswich dates from 1846 and that at Felixstowe from May 1877.

Yarmouth and Gorleston Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country.

In this expansive book, David Narrett shows how the United States emerged as a successor empire to Great Britain through rivalry with Spain in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast.

These invaluable essays offer an insider's perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil.

From its beginnings as a frontier military post on the Missouri River, through its years as a transportation and meatpacking center, to its present role as a home to Fortune 500 companies, Omaha has always been a city of opportunity, growth, and change.

The First World War destroyed the old European balance of power.

Energy shortages, climate change, and the debate over national security have thrust oil policy to the forefront of American politics.

Coal and iron making first brought railways to what is now called South Yorkshire.

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

As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of the navy during the First World War, he became one of the most important men in the world.

This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism.

Continuing his series of regional books reviewing the industrial railways of England, Wales and Scotland, author Gordon Edgar looks at the railways of what is today Northumbria, County Durham and Teesside, covering a period of the last six decades, with an emphasis upon the former National Coal Board railways.

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

This first volume of John Worth's substantial two-volume work studies the assimilation and eventual destruction of the indigenous Timucuan societies of interior Spanish Florida near St.

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform the city.

The Populist Movement was the largest mass movement for political and economic change in the history of the American South until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Magic City is the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, birthplace of a distinctive and influential jazz heritage.

Inspired by the mystique of a uniquely American tree, the pecan, Oklahoma writer John Gifford set out to explore the US pecan industry, which provides 80 percent of the world's supply of this special tree nut.

Owain Glyn Dwr is arguably the most famous figure in the history of Wales.

No one did political corruption quite like Rod Blagojevich.

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.

A look at the dark side of life, Victorian-style, when nothing was quite as it seemed and a public execution could be an entertaining family day out.

Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States.

The city of Liverpool is famous throughout the world.

Situated on the banks of the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky, represents a cultural and geographical intersection of North and South.

For this, the third book in a series on the area of Walworth, we let the people, old and new, speak first-hand about SE17.

Just across the River Thames from St Paul s Cathedral stands an old and elegant house.

Virginia saw significant action during the War of 1812, from the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair to the defense of Norfolk against British invaders.

Poole is the second largest natural harbour in the world and the largest in Europe, resulting in a trading history which dates back to Roman times.

Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty.

At first glance the largely rural county of 'Sussex by the Sea' may not be the first to spring to mind when it comes to the subject of industrial heritage, but closer inspection reveals that it had its fair share of extractive industries, such as early chalk quarries and lime works, thanks to the geology of the Sussex Downland, and from the interior Wealden Clays came brickworks and iron forges and furnaces.

Unique in California historyand beloved by visitors and residents alikethe city of Santa Barbara boasts three great historical properties: the Mission, the Courthouse, and the Presidio.