Local history

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.

The Crawley and Gatwick area is fascinating and both have seen a great many changes.

The city of Plymouth, on the south coast of Devon, has been a maritime settlement since its earliest days.

The history of the ancient town and port of Dover goes back to the Roman times and beyond.

Southampton has been a major port on the Hampshire coast since the medieval period, and the development of the docks in the nineteenth century saw the town (it became a city in 1964) expand massively.

The county of Somerset can trace its origins back to Anglo-Saxon England, when it was a distinct part of the kingdom of Wessex, although the history of its peoples stretches back much further.

Cambridge was at the forefront of the struggle for women to get the right to vote in Britain a century ago.

The history of the ancient town of Kingston upon Thames goes back to Anglo-Saxon times, and two Saxon kings were crowned there.

Ely was built around its cathedral, the first abbey founded by theAnglo-Saxons on an island in the Fens.

Over the centuries it has been the manufacturing of textiles and confectionery that has brought wealth to Halifax in West Yorkshire.

From the Middle Ages, when this historic market town grew as a thriving centre of the wool industry, to its current status as a popular tourist destination and cultural and retail hub for West Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds has a proud and distinctive identity.

Warrington History Tour gives the reader a unique opportunity to take a walk through the historic heart of a twenty-first-century town that has changed greatly over the last fifty years.

Few cities in the UK present a more favourable impression to visitors and residents alike than Exeter, the county town of Devon.

The county of Northumberland holds many delights, from the stunning landscapes along Hadrian's Wall to the many unspoiled beaches that line its spectacular coastline.

Though often seen as the smaller twin of Manchester, Salford - its neighbour across the River Irwell - boasts a rich industrial heritage.

From a modest street in Altrincham of not more than sixty-one houses, at least 158 men enlisted and fought in the First World War.

The old county of Sussex is one of the most beautiful in England, but beneath its rural idyll lies a history that is surprising and often shocking.

The Staffordshire townships of Trentham and neighbouring Dresden have a fascinating history.

Having been around for well over a millennium, there is a lot that is known about the town of Romsey, and there is a lot that isn't.

The Derbyshire spa town of Buxton is probably best known as the source of Buxton Water and for its wide range of attractions for visitors, particularly its striking array of Georgian and Victorian buildings.

Felixstowe History Tour offers a unique insight into the fascinating history of this coastal town in Suffolk.

Bath History Tour offers a fascinating insight into the illustrious history of this beautiful city in Somerset.

At the turn of the twentieth century the simple postcard became the go-to means of communication for thousands of Victorians and Edwardians, sharing their greetings, their stories and their gossip.

Bolton has a proud and distinctive identity.