Local history

Chester is well known as a Roman city once called Deva Victrix around 2,000 years ago.

The Yorkshire spa town of Ilkley is a popular tourist destination famous for its moor and literature festival.

Where were Cut Throat Alley and Heathen Street?

In 1560, when Mary of Guise ran Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, remained in France, Mary of Guise moved the Scottish Court to Leith, a site that is now Parliament Street, off Coalhill.

The 1950s in York was a decade of reconstruction and regeneration after the depredations of the Second World War.

For the people of Leicester, the 1960s was a decade of great social and economic change.

Derby is an exceptional and underrated city.

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

Rickmansworth, Croxley Green and Chorleywood Through Time takes the reader on a nostalgic journey back to an age when the pace of life was much slower and more tranquil than it is today.

London's Docklands have a rich and varied history.

The 1970s was a decade of change.

Like every other town in Great Britain, Colwyn Bay spent the 1950s shaking off the effects and austerity that were the legacy of the Second World War.

During the 1,000-year history of Bury St Edmunds, the town has acquired a mix of unexpected, weird and wonderful examples of buildings and the people associated with them.

At the beginning of the 1950s, Leicester was an industrial city picking itself up from the debris of the Second World War.

The incredible true story of what really happened in the Channel Islands during the Second World War.

The centre of Manchester is an area rich in social and cultural history.

The ancient town of Dunfermline is one of the oldest settlements in Scotland and, from the eleventh to the seventeenth century, it was the residence of royalty and the final resting place for many of Scotland's Kings and Queens.

The River Forth is one of Scotland's great waterways.

Besides having a fascinating geology, the North Kent Coast bears the marks of most periods of our history.

The Mersey has changed over the past thirty years.

CASTLETON today is a busy tourist village at the west end of the Hope Valley in the Peak District.

Not all of Edinburgh's history is well known; some of it has remained a secret, lost behind the facades of the familiar and hidden from view .

The Cornwall Railway was authorised on 3 August 1846 with the aim of constructing a broad gauge rail link between Plymouth, Truro and Falmouth.

The Great War (1914-1918), later known as the First World War, brought together the major European countries and their empires into the world's greatest conflict so far seen.

The pubs of Stoke are numerous, and each has its own fascinating tale to tell.

As authorised in 1835, the Great Western Railway extended from London to Bristol, but from the very earliest days, ambitious promoters were planning a whole series of extensions to destinations such as Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Cornwall and South Wales.

Waterford is located on the sunny south-east coast of Ireland.

There is a history of East Grinstead that is hidden from view, lost under the modern town's bustling surface.

Nestled in the rolling Border hills, at the meeting of the River Teviot and Slitrig Water, Hawick is deserving of its title as 'Queen o' a' the Borders'.

'Where do flies go in the winter?

Wigan grew rapidly during the nineteenth century as a major cotton mill town and centre for coal mining, aided by the construction of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal which passed through the town.

Once a relatively small rural settlement on the River Clyde, Glasgow expanded dramatically over the centuries to become the largest city in Scotland.

Runcorn's position on the Mersey was identified as early as 915, by the Saxon princess Ethelfleda.

One of the remnants of the great lost estates of the United Kingdom, Cassiobury Park is now the largest park in Hertfordshire, and the principal park of its primary town, Watford, covering an area twice the size of Hyde Park in London.

Over the past 400 years more than 800 pubs have opened in the city of Preston.

This book examines the areas of Sussex that played an important part in the Second World War.

The ancient town of Wilton traces its origins to early Saxon times and was, possibly as early as the seventh century, the royal capital of Wessex.

Wilmslow has played host to wartime codebreaker Alan Turing, children's broadcaster Romany and several worldfamous footballers.

This is a fascinating and diverse collection of images from the author's extensive photographic archive recalling Wigton's rich heritage both past and present.

Widnes is an industrial town within the borough of Halton, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, with an urban area population of 57,663 in 2004.

The name Wickford is of Saxon origin, Wick meaning a winding river and Ford being a shallow river crossing.

Whitley Bay and Seaton Sluice are two towns on the North East coast with fascinating histories.

The Georgian town of Whitehaven, located on the West coast of Cumbria, was once the third most important port in Britain but today is only used by a handful of fishing vessels.

Whitehaven and the Borough of Copeland have seen many changes over the centuries, but the pace of their transformation has been breathtaking over the past decade.

To visit Whitby's 'Yards' is to step back in time.

Famous for its attractive scenery, abbey, trademark jet jewellery and Dracula, it could be argued that Whitby needs little introduction.

Dominating the seaport of Whitby from its headland site, the imposing and brooding ruins of Whitby Abbey date from the seventh century.

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

Until the railways arrived, Westonsuper- Mare was a town without a history.

During the eighteenth century the plight of those considered insane was dismal.